Nigerian Delegation Visits Bermuda
Premier Paula Cox announced today [May 23] that a delegation from Nigeria, led by His Excellency Dr Kayode Fayemi, Governor of EkiTi State, travelled to Bermuda on a preliminary visit to explore the possibility of forging a strategic partnership with Bermuda.
A spokesperson said, “The Nigerian delegation were keen to learn more about Bermuda and to seek meaningful ways to initiate a strategic partnership with Bermuda in areas that could be of assistance to Bermuda, especially in the arena of tourism and commerce.”
“Though this first visit was a whistle-stop tour, it covered a wide spectrum of issues. H.E. Dr Kayode Fayemi, Governor of EkiTi State and senior members of Nigerian delegation arrived on Saturday evening, May 21st, 2011. His advance party including a senior aide arrived on Thursday evening.”
“On Sunday, the delegation attended the morning service at Christ Church in Devonshire where H. E. addressed the congregation and later that day were hosted by the Premier to a reception at her official residence, Camden.”
“During their visit, the delegation met with various senior officials from the financial services, tourism and education sectors and today, called upon His Excellency the Governor, Sir Richard Gozney, KCMG, CVO at Government House. H.E. Dr. Fayemi fondly recalled his friendship with our Governor from when Sir Richard had been stationed in Nigeria.”
His Excellency Dr. Kayode Fayemi and the delegation were hosted by the Chairman of the West End Development Corporation, Mr. Walter Lister, JP, MP, to a visit to Commissioners House and other WEDCO properties and undertook a brief site visit of the Wyndham Property on South Shore, Southampton.
The Nigerian delegation has expressed how impressed they were by Bermuda, the beauty of the island and the warmth of the people. They were stunned by the beauty and enjoyed themselves at the pre-heritage ‘Dancing through the Ages’ event last night and followed it with a visit to Shine’s Place to enjoy some jazz.
The Nigerian delegation’s visit to Bermuda was sponsored by the Nigerian Government under the auspices of the Nigerian Bermuda Trade and Tourism Council.
The Nigerian Delegation is expected to participate in the Bermuda Day festivities before departing Tuesday afternoon.
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Bizarre.
Wonder if Nigeria has offered the Premier one of those ‘too good to be true’ investment offers to bail Bermuda out of the $1b plus debt that she, the former Premier & the rest of the PLP racked up in the past few years?
After previous performance who would be surprised?
“forming a strategic what”?! Wasting money on losers. Spending money thats not yours to spend. whats next, let me geuss, investments in Nigeria……What a dam shame Premier.
and l just couldnt go on without saying that most Nigerians are VERY VERY POOR. Its only the “senior government officials” that fly around the world acting like Puff Diddy. ……..Sounds just like our senior officials.
What’s wrong with Madam Premier extending a bit of Bermudian Hospitality!
Hope she’ll take the opportunity to tell them to stop sending those damn scam letters here trying to con innocent people out of their hard earned savings.
It is not the Bermudian hospitality that concerns me, it’s, “under the auspices of the Nigeria Bermuda Trade and Tourism Council.” Nigeria and Bermuda setup a Council prior to the Nigerians first visit to the island? On whose authority would they have already done this? And for what purpose?
Next we will see the Premier signing a ‘memorandum of intent’ with this country, and for what? Precisely what can Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with an abundance of oil, yet there are streets in its capital of Lagos (and in the poverty stricken countryside)that do not have running water or electricity, in short, no basic necessities, and Nigerian expats speak out on government corruption, kickbacks, contracts that go to friends of those in power, in short, it is one of the most corrupt countries (both government and private sector) in Africa.
The current Bermuda Government can only account for our $1billion loss in government overruns, but the money went into somebody’s bank account, somewhere, as it did not just evaporate into thin air as these overruns were paid out, and now, are we suppose to act, dumb, deaf and blind to this new era of fortuneseekers?
Dr Brown came with American consultants, Paula Cox, “under the auspices of the Nigeria Bermuda Trade and Tourism Council.”