{"id":348076,"date":"2025-09-22T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348076"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:04:44","slug":"lagos-ready-for-international-boat-race-laswa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=348076","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Ready For International Boat Race\u2013LASWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Lagos State Government says it is fully prepared to host the forthcoming international boat race, assuring participants and residents of adequate safety on waterways.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The General Manager, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Emmanuel Oluwadamilola, while speaking to Newsmen, at the Weekend, said the state had over the years invested heavily in safety infrastructure to secure its waterways.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Oluwadamilola explained that Lagos had consistently enhanced facilities, making it the safest state for water transportation in Nigeria, with all necessary safety infrastructure in place.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said patrol boats had been deployed, while collaboration with the Marine Police and the Nigerian Navy would ensure effective surveillance across the waterways.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added that Lagos now operated a control room using advanced technology to monitor waterways, describing it as the best time to host such an event.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, the government had also undertaken shoreline cleaning, provided security boats, and designated docking zones for vessels participating in the competition.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe are delighted this race can now happen in Lagos, proving the state\u2019s readiness and capacity to successfully host such an international event,\u201d he said<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Government says it is fully prepared to host the forthcoming international boat race, assuring participants and residents of adequate safety on waterways. The General Manager, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), Emmanuel Oluwadamilola, while speaking to Newsmen, at the Weekend, said the state had over the years invested heavily in safety infrastructure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348099,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348076\/revisions\/348099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}