Yankari Game Reserve – A luxury safari is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when potential tourists think of Nigeria… but that’s exactly what Yankari Game Reserve is hoping to change.
In Africa’s largest economy, suffering from the collapse in global oil prices, tourism is being touted as a panacea to slow growth and a depreciating Nigerian Naira.
Leading the charge is the governor of northeast Bauchi State, an area targeted by Boko Haram insurgents, which is also home to Yankari – one of the last wildlife reserves in Nigeria with elephants, lions and buffalo.
“It is now too expensive to go to London, Dubai and America. Come and holiday in Yankari!” Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, the self-described “chief marketing officer” of the state, said on Twitter series of upbeat posts coaxing Nigerians to visit.
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