₦airaland Forum

gluv01: And that's why the security challenges must be considered and steps taken to tighten it. He is really trying, quite allright. But why must he have so much aides by his side. It looks odd

Orikinla: Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, is one of the most caring and humble leaders in the world today and has helped many needy people regardless of their tribe, race, class and religion.

Two Igbo Nollywood stars would have been forgotten today if Governor Fashola did not help them to save their precious lives.

zenatta: Too contrived - Politicians and their gimmicks.
So now, our governor is a superstar. He should go take lessons from Cameron. If I were to advise him, to make the PR look more poignant, I'd have told him to lose the fawning audience and go it alone that way he gets to be the "extraodinary man looking beyond his personality"
In other news, I am a fan of our Governor

[size=14pt]Governor Fashola flags off first ever Lagos Sea Food Festival[/size]

By Bisola Adeniran on November 11, 2012

https://dailypost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fashola_seafoodfestival-300x217.jpeg

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN)  on Saturday flagged off the first ever Lagos Sea Food Festival, describing it as an opportunity to showcase the enormous entrepreneurship, hardwork and resourcefulness of the people who live in the coastal areas.

The Governor who spoke at the Eko Atlantic City Beachfront in Victoria Island venue of the event which had in attendance participants in the Kuramo Conference 2012 and other notables including the First Lady, Dame Emmanuella Abimbola Fashola, traditional rulers and exhibitors said the seafood festival would be an opportunity to promote what is indigenous.

He wondered why residents of Lagos despite their closeness to the coastline and prevalence of fresh fish and seafood still prefer to eat frozen foods, stressing that Lagosians should promote what is their own.

“This Food festival will showcase the enormous opportunities and unlock the treasure box of 180 kilometres of  Atlantic water, our lagoons and creeks which nature has invested in Lagos but which we are yet to optimize”, he added.

The Governor said in coastal areas like Ibeju Lekki, Epe, Eti Osa  and Badagry, there are people who for generations have depended on the natural resources that water provides for Lagos to make a living, adding that the festival is aimed at showcasing them.

Governor Fashola said the timing of the Sea food festival to coincide with the ongoing Kuramo Conference Lagos 2012 is not an accident but one which was debated and decided upon by the members of the State Executive Council to showcase the rural areas in the State.

He explained that it was no accident that during his address at the opening ceremony of the Kuramo Conference 2012, he spoke about how Africa must unlock the opportunities which currently are not available to children of Cote D’ivoire  thus leading to a situation where the country produces cocoa but her children do not know what chocolates tastes like.



The Governor noted that the Lagos Sea Food Festival is being linked with Kuramo because the present administration believes that the exportation of local Nigerian and African cuisines would be one of the milestones that would be recorded and exported to the world in a short while.

Governor Fashola expressed happiness that the festival has also provided opportunities to creative young people who have various items such as local ovens which could be used to smoke the sea foods and exhibited at the festival.

He added that the present administration in Lagos State is very passionate about the exposure of the potentials of the business in seafoods, adding that what is happening at the festival should be what happens on the various beachfronts.

The Governor said for a country like Nigeria, the promotion and encouragement of sea foods business and its economy should be what life away from oil should be.

Earlier, The State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal in an address of welcome said the Lagos Seafood Festival is aimed at showcasing what the local population have and can do.

He added that it would also be an opportunity for the various participants, exhibitors and visitors to the festival to network and expand the frontiers of their businesses.

The Festival was attended by participants at the Kuramo Conference Lagos 2012, traditional rulers, fish entrepreneurs and members of the State Executive Council. It featured exhibitions from various providers of delicacies made from sea foods.

[size=14pt]Governor Fashola flags off first ever Lagos Sea Food Festival[/size]

By Bisola Adeniran on November 11, 2012

https://dailypost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Fashola_seafoodfestival-300x217.jpeg

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN)  on Saturday flagged off the first ever Lagos Sea Food Festival, describing it as an opportunity to showcase the enormous entrepreneurship, hardwork and resourcefulness of the people who live in the coastal areas.

The Governor who spoke at the Eko Atlantic City Beachfront in Victoria Island venue of the event which had in attendance participants in the Kuramo Conference 2012 and other notables including the First Lady, Dame Emmanuella Abimbola Fashola, traditional rulers and exhibitors said the seafood festival would be an opportunity to promote what is indigenous.

He wondered why residents of Lagos despite their closeness to the coastline and prevalence of fresh fish and seafood still prefer to eat frozen foods, stressing that Lagosians should promote what is their own.

“This Food festival will showcase the enormous opportunities and unlock the treasure box of 180 kilometres of  Atlantic water, our lagoons and creeks which nature has invested in Lagos but which we are yet to optimize”, he added.

The Governor said in coastal areas like Ibeju Lekki, Epe, Eti Osa  and Badagry, there are people who for generations have depended on the natural resources that water provides for Lagos to make a living, adding that the festival is aimed at showcasing them.

Governor Fashola said the timing of the Sea food festival to coincide with the ongoing Kuramo Conference Lagos 2012 is not an accident but one which was debated and decided upon by the members of the State Executive Council to showcase the rural areas in the State.

He explained that it was no accident that during his address at the opening ceremony of the Kuramo Conference 2012, he spoke about how Africa must unlock the opportunities which currently are not available to children of Cote D’ivoire  thus leading to a situation where the country produces cocoa but her children do not know what chocolates tastes like.



The Governor noted that the Lagos Sea Food Festival is being linked with Kuramo because the present administration believes that the exportation of local Nigerian and African cuisines would be one of the milestones that would be recorded and exported to the world in a short while.

Governor Fashola expressed happiness that the festival has also provided opportunities to creative young people who have various items such as local ovens which could be used to smoke the sea foods and exhibited at the festival.

He added that the present administration in Lagos State is very passionate about the exposure of the potentials of the business in seafoods, adding that what is happening at the festival should be what happens on the various beachfronts.

The Governor said for a country like Nigeria, the promotion and encouragement of sea foods business and its economy should be what life away from oil should be.

Earlier, The State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal in an address of welcome said the Lagos Seafood Festival is aimed at showcasing what the local population have and can do.

He added that it would also be an opportunity for the various participants, exhibitors and visitors to the festival to network and expand the frontiers of their businesses.

The Festival was attended by participants at the Kuramo Conference Lagos 2012, traditional rulers, fish entrepreneurs and members of the State Executive Council. It featured exhibitions from various providers of delicacies made from sea foods.

gbanikiti: Is Julius Berger coming back to the road? I thought their contract has been terminated? with the presence of Julius Berger, the construction will be faster like the Orile and Mile 2 axis.

auxioneer: Yayyy!!! Was privilegded 2 be part of d building of NNS Andoni. Its cool and am sure will last for a long while

dominique: then that's what it should have been referred to in the first place. topic is quite misleading and picture is disappointing (when i assumed it was a warship). looks more like a yatch

Dis Guy: unfortunately didn't move around much last time i was in Lagos

it's quite disappointing though, seems the project managers/sponsors dont feel the need to update
the citizens - no deadlines

CFCfan: ^^The key word is 'operational'. The Queen's role as 'commander-in-chief' is merely ceremonial. To me, the Prime Minister's day to day operational control of the armed forces, effectively makes him/her the 'real' commander-in-chief.

CFCfan: Also, the Head of Government usually doubles as the commander-in-chief of a sovereign nation's armed forces.
According to the 1999 constitution (as amended), the President is both the Head of State and Head of Government.

tunwe: We only had one head of state from 1960-1963. And that was the prime-minister (Abubakar). The presidental position was ceremonial. Nnamdi! Azikiwe was a president without portfolio. The boss for all practical purposes wass Tafala Balewa. Is misleading to list zike among the head of
state.;

naptu2: Adesegun Musiwa is the Nairaland politics section poster of the year 2009. He is an electricity engineer who graduated from the University of Ilorin. He speaks Batu and a host of other languages.

Adesegun Musiwa is also known as Becomerich 1-100, Eguofor, Complove, Nigeria1, Nigeriaone, Bashali, Tayo4life, Uche 2005, Becomericher, Mapomeji, Are Canada, etc

He works as the chief mapologist at Google. His philosophy is that all Nigeria's problems will be solved if the Western Niger is excised from Nigeria and added to Benin Republic.

He is very influential (more influential than Goodluck Jonathan), knows all the pastors in Nigeria and will win any free and fair presidential election conducted in Nigeria, by virtue of his philosophy as contained in the sacred satellite pictures.

He has been the subject of classic threads on Nairaland such as the threads below.

https://www.nairaland.com/608926/one-party-should-please-summit

https://www.nairaland.com/335745/aloy-emeka-mr-tribalist-cousin

https://www.nairaland.com/321016/mapomeji-finally-out

https://www.nairaland.com/469018/happy-birthday-becomerich

https://www.nairaland.com/898844/h

https://www.nairaland.com/909682/

https://www.nairaland.com/220912/seun-owner-nairaland-accused-corruption

https://www.nairaland.com/469018/happy-birthday-becomerich

https://www.nairaland.com/514772/becomerich-bows-out-nl

https://www.nairaland.com/477125/jakumu-english-nonsense-not-know

https://www.nairaland.com/367629/becomerich-wins-jakumo-closes-beaf/5

https://www.nairaland.com/679870/aare-musiwa-hot-form-look

https://www.nairaland.com/746286/terror-code-red-edodelta-yoruba

naptu2: How could I forget? Adesegun Musiwa is also the leader of Egbe Omo Oduduwa

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbe_Omo_Oduduwa

50calibre: Nwando azikiwe and aguiyi ironsi - Nigeria's greatest presidents, the rest are/were mediocres.

50calibre: Abacha - Nigeria's scariest head of state

Amadu bello - Nigeria's most monkey-like president

OBJ - A pure gorilla with the cunning sense of 10 humans, Nigeria's most crafty president

IBB - The pioneer and inventor of corruption in Nigeria, the greatest thief Nigeria has ever seen.

Yaradua - the most unhealthy and biggest puppet ever, basically a lame duck

GEJ - Nigeria's biggest source of embarrassment in the international community, basically an alchohol drinking militant always talking nonsense alongside his wife.

[size=14pt]Navy arrests 15 Russians aboard ship loaded with arms and ammunition.[/size]

The Nigerian Navy is reassuring the nation that its territorial waters will be adequately protected against all forms of criminality across Nigerian waters.

As a proof of that commitment, the Navy handed over to the police 15 Russians arrested aboard a ship loaded with arms and ammunition for further investigation and possible prosecution.

The vessel was arrested on October 19, last year, at the Lagos roadstead of the nation’s waterways by personnel of the NNS Andoni for illegal entry into the nation’s waterways as well as for non-declaration of cargo and possession of a cache of arms and ammunition.

The vessel, which departed from the port of Toliara Madagascar en route Conakry in Senegal, was intercepted on Nigerian waters with about 14 assorted AK47 rifles with 3,643 ammunition and 20 Benelli MRI 20 barrel with 4955 ammunition.
The 15-man crew was formally handed over to the men of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Force Criminal and Investigation Department at the Western Naval Command (WNC), Apapa, Lagos.

The crewmembers were identified as Lopatin Alexey, Varlygin Igor, Mishin Pavel, Dmitry Bannykh, Alexander Tsarikov, Kononov Sergei and Vorobev Mikhail.
Others were Baranovskiy Nikolay, Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergey, Illia Shubov, Oleksiuk Stephan, Alexander Tsarikov and Korotchenko Andrey.

Overseeing the handover session, the Commanding Officer, NNS Beecroft, Commodore Martin Njoku, said the navy was releasing only the crewmembers to the police and not the vessel and ammunition.

He said: “As our constitution demands and in the spirit of inter-cooperation, we are handing over the crewmembers to the Nigeria Police to continue their investigations.
“Note that we are handing over for further investigation and necessary action because we have done our preliminary investigations where we discovered that they were carrying fire arms.”

While receiving the crewmembers, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, SFU, Bashiru Mu’azu, said the police would proceed with investigations from where the navy had stopped.

He said: “For the navy to have handed over the suspects to the police, it means the suspects have a case to answer and we will ensure that a thorough investigation is carried out.

“We will also ensure speedy and quality investigation as well as prosecution of the suspects, if need be. But for now, we will detain the Russians until we complete our investigation.

“So far, we have no clue as to the owner of the arms and ammunition or where the suspects where carrying them to but that is what we intend to find out.”
Although he refused to disclose the identity of the owner of the arms and ammunition, the vessel’s captain, Zhelyazkov Andrey, said the Russian consul was fully aware of their case.

TVC News gathered that the arrested ship was flying a Dutch Island flag when it was sighted in Lagos on October 20, 2012.
While confirming the arrest of the ship, the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Western Naval Command, Rear Admiral Ameen Ikioda, had said the vessel entered the Nigerian waters without appropriate notifications from the naval authorities.

He said: “Part of our responsibility in Lagos area is to create a very conducive maritime space for legitimate maritime businesses to thrive.  Therefore, anytime we see something that is infringing on such an opportunity, we try to see how best we can address it.”

“The discovery of the weapons and ammunition on board is an infringement of the laws of this country.”

Information obtained from the ship’s website shows that its operation has been suspended following the arrest.

gbanikiti: As others have rightly stated, the road is making progress. the sandfilling of Agboju axis and probably down to Abule Ado might slow the pace of work because it's a swamp. The traders at Agboju should be blamed for not relocating their businesses. the warning to relocate by the state government came months before the construction reached Agboju. so blaming the government for not giving them prior information is absolutely stewpid!

The only problem on that road is Volks bus stop because of the u turn. heavy vehicles going to Alaba international market and towards badagry cause most of the serious traffic on that road. Last week Saturday i passed the road, i saw CCECC workers doing some emergency works by using interlocks to repair the road at Ilaje and Odu eran bus stops. The rain is not helping matters as some vehicles get stuck in the mud.

Finally, as i said earlier, work is in progress .all we need is to be patient and work alongside with the government.

naptu2: NNS Ambe (LST1312)
www.nairaland.com/attachments/295749_NNS_Ambe_jpg9518d5695f60a0083c94f835b0588908
The landing ship tank, NNS Ambe, undergoing repairs.

I first knew what it is in 1990. On the 9 o'clock news they showed troops preparing to sail to Liberia. Its hull opened and armoured tanks, personnel carriers and fighting vehicles were rolling into it (or was it its sister ship, the Ofiom?). It's a Landing Ship Tank (LST)! The C130 of the navy.

I wish we had amphibious landing ships and amphibious assault ships.