ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR LAGOS 2015

The annual international trade fair presently holding at the Tafawa Balewa Square started on friday 6th of November and expected to be on Sunday 15th of november. The Annual Trade fair Lagos 2015 is a fair dedicated to the promotion of the Nigerian
economy. The Annual Trade fair Lagos 2015 presents products and services in categories such as :Building and Construction materials and systems Agriculture and Food Production Oil, Gas and Petro-chemical Industrial & production machinery Transport / Aviation Mining and Energy Business Equipment and Data Processing Systems Telecommunications Healthcare and Safety Equipment Training and Education Scientific/ Technological Break-through Banking and Finance Services The Annual Trade fair Lagos 2015 brings together about 500,000 visitors from Nigeria and other countries, including investors, businessmen, top government officials and representatives and customers. 

Strong summer sees tourism figures rise in Germany

The 2015 summer holiday season has led to a further record for
incoming tourism to Germany.
For the period of January to August, the Federal Statistical Office
has counted overall 54.5 million international overnight stays in
accommodation establishments with at least ten beds, which is
2.9 million nights more than in the same period of the previous
year.
Consequently Incoming tourism, for the first eight months of the
year has shown a further 5.5 per cent growth.
During the holiday months of June, July and August alone, 27.4
million overnight stays by foreign visitors were registered, seven
per cent more than in the corresponding period last year.
Individually, the UK registered a 12 per cent increase for the month
of August 2015 and Ireland showed a nine per cent increase
compared to the same period for last year.
Petra Hedorfer, chief executive, German National Tourist Board,
sees the latest results as further proof of the increasing
attractiveness of Germany as a holiday destination: “According to
the IPK, in the last two years (2013 and 2014) the leisure travel
market from Europe and overseas have each grown more than
seven per cent - more than the entire incoming tourism for each of
those years.
“The above-average growth for the summer months confirms the
importance of this market segment for tourism to Germany.
“During those three summer months, we generate about a third of
our Incoming annual results.

Source breakingtravelnews.com

List Of Individual Award Winners For 2015 U17 World Cup

With an outstanding team packed with talented players,
Nigeria successfully defended their crown at the FIFA U-17
World Cup Chile 2015. Furthermore, the west Africans took
centre stage when it came to the individual honours too.
Top scorer Victor Osimhen and captain Kelechi Nwakali both
made their mark on the competition, and after winning the
adidas Golden Ball as the tournament’s best player, the latter
followed in the footsteps of Cesc Fabregas and Toni Kroos,
who are now key members of the senior sides with their
respective national teams. Osimhen set a new U-17 World Cup
goalscoring record, while Mali’s Samuel Diarra and Ecuador’s
example of Fair Play were also recognised.
Adidas Golden Ball: Kelechi Nwakali (Nigeria)
After missing the 2013 party because he was not included in
the list, however, the playmaker showed his worth as he
shouldered responsibilities and kept a cool head in difficult
moments. He scored three goals, including two penalties, and
provided a further three assists, a haul that also brought him
the adidas Bronze Boot.
Adidas Silver Ball: Victor Osimhen (Nigeria )
The striker, who names Didier Drogba as his role model, more
than lived up to expectations in Chile after finding the net in all
seven games at the competition. His effort in the final – his
tenth goal overall – set a new tournament record, beating the
previous best-mark set by Côte d’Ivoire’s Souleymane
Coulibaly in 2011 and France’s Florent Sinama Pongolle in
2001. Osimhen duly finished as top scorer in South America.
Adidas Bronze Ball: Aly Malle (Mali)
Alongside Boubacar Traore, Sekou Koita and Sidiki Maiga,
Malle formed part of an impressive attacking line-up that put
opponents under pressure right from the off. Operating as a
nominal striker, the No9 often dropped deep to pick up the ball
and brought his team-mates into the game on countless
occasions.

adidas Golden Boot: Victor Osimhen (Nigeria/10 goals, 2
assists)
Victor needs no further introduction, he is the man of the
moment obviously. Am sure his dad will be in his house right
now like ''Osimhen, I know say one day you go make us
Proud''.

adidas Silver Boot: Johannes Eggestein (Germany/4 goals, 0
assists)
Eggestein’s best performances for Germany came in the group
stage, where he found the target four times in three matches
to go joint-top of the scorers’ chart alongside Osimhen after
the first phase of the tournament. Although the striker, who
plays for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, was unable to add
to his tally after Germany were eliminated by Croatia in the
Round of 16, he still did enough to win the adidas Silver Boot.

Adidas Bronze Boot: Kelechi Nwakali (Nigeria/3 goals, 3
assists)
Captain Fantastic was alway in hand to expel opposition
attack Gattuso style and also recycled fast as Cave would do.
No doubt, Nwakali is Mr Capable.

Adidas Golden Glove: Samuel Diarra (Mali)
For the fourth time in tournament history, the best goalkeeper
of the finals was presented with an award. this time the
winner was Samuel Diarra, who reached the final with African
champions Mali and routinely frustrated opposition strikers
with some spectacular saves

Fair Play Award: Ecuador
In their five games at the tournament, the South Americans
only committed 69 fouls, collected just four yellow cards and
had one sending off for a second bookable offence, making
coach Jose Rodriguez’s charges worthy winners of the FIFA
Fair Play Award.

Russian Metrojet Flight Broke Apart at High Altitude

Russia mourns, experts and search teams are on
the scene of the Metrojet Flight 7K9268 crash in
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula . They are looking for pieces of
the Russian aircraft and recovering the bodies of the
224 passengers and crew who died, as the
investigation into the cause of the crash commences,
the Associated Press reported .
The Airbus A321-200 was at 31,000 feet, just 23
minutes into a flight from the Red Sea resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, Russia, when, according to
Alexander Neradko, head of Russia's federal aviation
agency, it broke up at high altitude, scattering
wreckage over six square miles, the AP said. Neradko,
who is part of a multi-agency team inspecting the
crash site, would not speculate about the crash’s
cause, due to the ongoing investigation.
As the AP revealed, there seems to be differing
perspectives on the aircraft’s condition prior to
takeoff.
An Egyptian ground service official who was part of
the crew who conducted the preflight inspection told
the news service, "We are all shocked. It was a good
plane. Everything checked out in 35 minutes," the
official, who remained anonymous because he wasn’t
allowed to talk to the media, added that the closest
this jet came to trouble was three months ago when the pilot
aborted takeoff due to a system error. "That's almost routine
though," he said.
However, as reported yesterday by the AP, Russian TV quoted co-
pilot Sergei Trukhachev’s wife, who said their daughter "called him
up before he flew out. He complained before the flight that the
technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired."
An Egyptian official had said, per the AP, that the pilot told air
traffic controllers that he was having technical trouble and was
going to attempt a landing at the nearest airport before contact
was lost. Then there are theories that the Metrojet flight was brought down
by malicious action.
Alexander Fridlyand, expert and head of Moscow’s aviation
research center, said in a televised interview, per the AP, that the
plane’s sudden drop in altitude could mean a bomb exploded in
the luggage compartment.
A local Islamic State affiliate did make a statement on social media
that they had “brought down” the aircraft. But as the AP explained, there was no supporting evidence provided, and the militants are
not known to have the capability to take down a plane at cruising
altitude.
Fridlyand also presented the possibility that the plane’s power
system malfunctioned, which could have caused a fire or both
engines to shut down, the AP said.
Alexander Smirnov, Metrojet's deputy director, countered this,
saying on TV, per the AP, "An engine failure doesn't lead to
catastrophe,” he asserted on television. Smirnov called the A321
“reliable” and said automatic systems would compensate for crew
mistakes.
But Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi insisted the cause of
the crash might not be known for months.
"It's very important that this issue is left alone and its causes are
not speculated on," he told a group of top government officials,
military members and security forces. The investigation "will take a
long time" and "needs very advanced technologies," he said,
according to the AP.
Meanwhile, Lufthansa, Air France, Emirates and Qatar Airways
have announced that their jets will not fly over the crash area until
the cause is known, according to the AP.
Sunday saw Russia's air-safety regulator order Moscow-based
Metrojet to suspend flights temporarily, the AP said. But Metrojet
is continuing to operate the six remaining A321s, saying, per the
AP that this order meant each jet would be checked individually
and allowed to keep flying if it passed inspection.                                                                                reported by Travel pulse.