Monday
Remi, from IBM Nigeria Corporate talking to the press
Remi, from IBM Nigeria Corporate talking to the press
Press
conference in the morning. All the press from the state was here and we all
introduced ourselves to them. It’s funny to be a star, with all the cameras and
microphones.... LOL --- photos later....
After
the press conference we went to a very special visit. We went to the Ado Ekiti
King’s palace – they have a lot of old tribal royalty throughout Nigeria – It
was a surreal experience and very interesting! I promise to post pics and film
later. When I bowed to him and said a word in Yoruba, he and all of the tribal
council really laughed hardly....cool!
After
that we met again with the Governor, but this time at the main government
building – very nice and big office – where he talked about his expectations
regarding our projects and again I was very impressed by his very great
communication and knowledge about everything that is going on in the world….he
was even talking about Embrapa and how Brazil is a big agriculture power and
how they want to implement the agriculture technology we have in Nigeria,
especially in the Ekiti State….I’m really start thinking he will be president
some day. Very bright man and it seems he is really trying to make something of
his mandate.
We
got back to the hotel and after a quick sub team’s meeting we went to the
supermarket – always escorted by AK47’s security – and both some stuff we
needed. I wanted to buy some coffee paper filters, but they don’t have such
thing in here, so I both a t-shirt and made myself an old school filter and
after dinner me and some of the guys drank the real coffee, Brazilian Café
Pilão special Intense blend!
A
couple of beers, listening from some Marcelo D2 from Christina’s iPod (Brazil
is really out there) and now I’m here writing back to you guys….tomorrow will
be the meeting with our clients and then me, Leslie and Rodney will start the
real work for CIMS project.
Ah,
and last but not least, my Nigerian friends from both the hotel and the
government are giving me some nicknames like: Neymar (don’t like it – LOL),
Brazil 2014 and the one I really liked: Yoruba boy from Brazil!!!
hahahahahah
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