Nelson A.Osuala[ 10 July 2016] 12:40PM
Information reaching Negroidhaven news desk avers that the incumbent governor of Cross river state, His excellency, Sen. Prof. Ben Ayade, has emerged winner of the Tourism Man of the Year Award for Nigeria and West Africa in the recent poll as adjudged by the Balafon Committee.
It is no gainsaying the fact that the Cross river state Governor surpassed major Criteria to have achieved this noble feat.
NHB garnered from her correspondence that, the contest was a 4-man race of eminent and exceptional personalities as
1# The Minister of Tourism for Ghana.
2# The Minister of Tourism for the Gambia
3# The MD of Wakanow. Obinna Ekezie and;
4# Sen. Benedict Ayade
Ayade’s emergence as winner was unprejudiced as it was unanimously based on the results released last week Tuesday by the Balafon Award committee.
The Balafon award committee which comprises of Travel Professionals and Journalists from Nigeria and Ghana approved the results for the best performers in Travel and Tourism West Africa.
The committee had prior to time, met and shortlisted various nominees for the different award categories.
These Nominees were then exposed to a public votes on Atqnews website and Facebook page.
The online voting was done using a sophisticated electronic program known as the “Survey Monkey Software” which aided in generating the result.
According to Statistical reports made available to NHB, the Atqnews facebook social media page had over 23,000 followers while the newsletter had a weekly global audience of over 100,000 people.
Nelson A.Osuala is a Blogger & the Associate Editor of NegroidHaven.