http://newsverge.com/lagos-hosts-first-nigeria-beer-festival/

In a bid to stimulate its economic and tourism potentials, Lagos State is set to host the maiden edition of the Nigeria Beer Festival from September 25 to October 1, 2017. The Lagos State government is collaborating with beer brewers in the country and their counterparts across the globe to create maximum excitement during the week-long fiesta that will climax with the Independence Day Mega Concert to commemorate Nigeria’s independence.


The festival, which will promote responsible drinking among drinking-age (which is 18 years and above) consumers at all its touch points, will be held at the Lagos Atlantic City to give it a carnival atmosphere from Day 1 to the very last second. It will be a gathering of the largest community of beer consumers from across the country and beyond.

The organizers of the Nigeria Beer Festival, On and One Event (001) Limited, said that the Lagos State government, which is passionate about tourism, will provide massive institutional support, particularly security, transport and related logistics.

The event, according to the organizers, will see Nigeria enrol into the league of Beer Festivals around the world, and boost the country’s tourism opportunities. Akinola Oluwaleimu, General Manager of 001, revealed that the world-acclaimedOktoberfest (Beer Festival) in Munich attracts more than 50,000 tourists to Germany every year, while other countries in Europe and the Americas have caught the bug.

“Nigeria Beer Festival will be a carnival week of entertainment, sales and marketing and a gathering of the largest community of beer consumers from across the country and beyond with economic value for the brands and the economy at large,” Oluwaleimu assured.

The Nigeria Beer Festival will provide a fitting ambience to showcase fashion and lifestyle, as well as culture in a carnival atmosphere with various beer brands and other alcoholic drinks in Nigeria connecting with their existing and potential consumers.

This culture touch point is in line with the view of social scientists that that beer is among the symbolic vehicles for identifying, describing, constructing and manipulating cultural values and interpersonal relationships. They classify different alcoholic beverages in terms of their social and cultural meanings.

Historians submit that Beer has always been popular – since times of ancient Babylon and Greece, Mesopotamia and Egypt and is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the fifth millennium BC.

Anthropologists and archaeologists also believe that it was a taste for beer, not bread that started the cultivation of barley in around 9000BC, known as the agricultural revolution. Beer didn’t just change the world; historians insist it saved it!

Meanwhile partners of the forthcoming Nigeria Beer Festival are also assured of world-standard facilities as the organisers of the Nigeria Beer Festival have partnered with reputable and qualified architects from Europe to design modular stands to fit into any shape or style desired by exhibitors.

Oluwaleimu said that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is expected to close the festival during the Independence Day Mega Concert that will parade an array of A-list Nigerian artistes, which will feature eye-popping fireworks display.

many casualties WL b recorded this time....lemme call on my friends dad in delta...his fud has arrived

Lagos where people dey drink beer even inside flood in Adeniji ..

Now LASG wants to host them officially?

Abeg shift make l faint...

Madcow1

Time to show that you are a true Lagosian oooo. Go and display your talent

Hmm

Arrggh. No wonder my uncle told me he'll be traveling to Lagos next month. Sometimes I wonder if that man was delivered in a beer parlour.

e don red!

Wherey government.

What exactly are they trying to achieve ?

not the first

mtchewww dnt even knw wat to type.Nigeria just dey vex me

Heheheheheh

Drinking beer is some people talent

Abeg make I invite my friends for ladipo market,Alaba market and computer village.

My country will just copy and paste everything from the whites.
Never bringing up something new and unique to do but just borrowing everything from oyinbo whether or not it reflects or potrays us or our needs.

e don cast!

Great news for all drunkards! I guess the same Govt would be there to provide free health care for them when the repercussion comes.



Lemme save the date, no going out for hubby throughout that week. Make e no go commit all in the name of free beer.


#After_God_Fear_Men#

Am sure the brewies will be happy! especially the pot belly men!

Apostle must hear of this
Do u know u can be prosecuted for this...

.

Very soon I'll come to nairaland and see "LAGOS HOSTS FIRST WEED FESTIVAL"

Okay Pls when will they hold igbo(weed) festival! Am Seriously waiting for that day

That's good . Beauty they say lies in the eyes of the BEERholder

muller101:
That's good . Beauty they say lies in the eyes of the BEERholder

Like seriously ok i dey come

Like Germany's Oktoberfest Beer Festival.

misplaced priorities

I'm short of words, when we are promoting what is not worth it.

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I'm ready for this... Oya bar Man!! Heineken pls.

Did I just read right?
Aaaaah! Jééééééésù!!!
Is this the panacea to improving the life of the common man? Must we copy every trash from the white man? BEER Festival.
It's like our goverment is forgetting that we tend to abuse everything in Nigeria. If free for all starts now, and bottles start flying everywhere, they'll start laying blames and pointing accusing fingers.
Anyways, when are they starting NUDE FESTIVAL and SEX FESTIVAL?

Kingtom oya o

No shaking, we go dey wait them