‘Ipada Carnival’ ‘ll Unite 50 Million Africans, Says Akinboboye

‘Ipada Carnival’ ‘ll Unite 50 Million Africans, Says Akinboboye

“Two weeks ago, we dropped ‘Motherland Beckons,’ the tourism product that called on all Africans and lovers of Africans in the Diaspora to connect with the continent and we called on them, that they must heed the call,” said Otunba Wanle Akinboboye at his luxury 65 acres beach resort in Lagos, where he was welcoming guests who had come to witness the African New Year cross-over celebrations, live, at the beachfront. “So based on that,”…

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‘IPADA’, Akinboboye’s 11th tourism product seeks process for return of people in Diaspora

‘IPADA’, Akinboboye’s 11th tourism product seeks process for return of people in Diaspora

Tourism icon, Otunba Wanle Akinboboye released, ‘Motherland Beckons’ as the product of the week. “But this week, our tourism product is IPADA, a Yoruba word that means ‘The Return’. Motherland Beckons and then The Return. Heed the Call and Return to the Motherland,” says the tourism icon. ‘Ipada’ he says, is the response to the command of Motherland Beckons. The return. Ipada is a clarion call on Africans in the Diaspora and lovers of Africans…

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Tropicana Scuba Diving: Akinboboye’s 8th Tourism Product

Tropicana Scuba Diving: Akinboboye’s 8th Tourism Product

When Otunba Wanle Akinboboye, who was in his mid-twenties returned to Nigeria from the United States of America in the late 1980s, he established La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, which incorporated the oceanfront at Ikegun in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State In the early 1990s, he registered several tourism and recreational-focused companies, one of which was Tropicana Scuba Limited. He aimed to operate and expose Nigerians to leisure activities that leveraged Nigeria’s natural environment while…

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