Ndoma Egba to chair NANTA’s AGM as presidency backs confab

Ndoma Egba, chairman, board of directors of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has promised to chair and present the lead paper at the 42nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), slated for Port-Harcourt, in March.

In the same vein, the presidency through Femi Adeshina, special adviser, media to president Muhammadu Buhari has praised the game-changing initiatives of NANTA to rid the travel trade business of corrupt practitioners, assuring that the Federal Government will partner with NANTA to create the necessary enabling environment to drive the down-stream sector of the aviation industry as major player to the sustainable economic and social development of Nigeria.

Segun Runsewe, director-general of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), indicated that NANTA will be rebranded to give new meaning to culture as a business, and an enabler of rural development.

Ndoma Egba who received NANTA president and his entourage at NDDC head office in Port-Harcourt last week, promised not only to attend the conference with the theme “symbiotic relationship of Aviation and Tourism – A key to economic sustainability,” but also partner with NANTA to drive rural cultural tourism in the Niger Delta areas.

Egba expressed immense joy and happiness at NANTA’s visit and acknowledged that NDDC has the mandate to grow rural tourism and help change the ugly narratives of Niger Delta people whose history and disposition to hospitality had been distorted through many years of unexplainable restiveness and economic dislocation.