Greater Nigeria Independence Cruise: Double celebration for Goge Africa 

Following the debut of the multiple award-winning culture and travel TV show, Goge Africa, on October 1, 1999, same day as Nigeria’s Independence Day anniversary, the show, in commemoration of these two epochal anniversaries for this year (Nigeria at 61 and Goge Africa at 22), in partnership with the Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and Lagos Ferry Services, feted over 150 people to a boat cruise.
  
Under the theme Greater Nigeria Independence Cruise, the people aboard the expansive MV Adimu Orisa Ferry, along the waterways of Lagos state.
  
The event, which was a progressive synergy between the government, tourism practitioners, entertainers and water transport sector players led by the doyen of Lagos waterways, Lagferry, featured lip-smacking cuisines, networking parley and lots of entertainment including an electrical performance by ace dancehall musical act, Blacky.
  

Managing Director, Lagferry, Ladi Balogun, who also noted that the adoption of the waterways is an excellent alternate means of transportation in Lagos, encouraged residents to see it as a viable and reliable alternative to road transportation, not only to commute people, but also for entertainment, tourism and social events on the waterway.

“This will give way for multi-modal transportation,” he said
  
Other dignitaries present at the occasion were the Permanent Secretary of Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Princess Adenike Adedoyin-Ajayi, the Chief Corporate Services Officer at MTN Nigeria Tobe Okigbo and his wife Chioma Okigbo, tourism entrepreneurs were represented by Nnenna Fakoya-Smith, others.