In a bid to stimulate its economic and tourism
potentials, Lagos State is set to host the maiden edition of the Nigeria Beer
Festival from September 25 to October 1, 2017.
The Lagos State
government is collaborating with beer brewers in the country and their
counterparts across the globe to create maximum excitement during the week-long
fiesta that will climax with the Independence Day Mega Concert to commemorate Nigeria’s
independence.
The festival, which will promote responsible
drinking among drinking-age (which is 18 years and above) consumers at all its
touch points, will be held at the Lagos Atlantic City to give it a carnival
atmosphere from Day 1 to the very last second. It will be a gathering of the
largest community of beer consumers from across the country and beyond.
The organizers of the Nigeria
Beer Festival, On and One Event (001) Limited, said that the Lagos State
government, which is passionate about tourism, will provide massive
institutional support, particularly security, transport and related logistics.
The event, according to the organizers, will see Nigeria
enrol into the league of Beer Festivals around the world, and boost the
country’s tourism opportunities.
Akinola Oluwaleimu,
General Manager of 001, revealed that the world-acclaimed Oktoberfest (Beer Festival) in Munich attracts more than 50,000
tourists to Germany every year, while other countries in Europe and the Americas
have caught the bug.
“Nigeria Beer Festival will be a carnival week of entertainment,
sales and marketing and a gathering of the largest community of beer consumers
from across the country and beyond with economic value for the brands and the
economy at large,” Oluwaleimu assured.
The Nigeria Beer Festival will provide a fitting
ambience to showcase fashion and lifestyle, as well as culture in a carnival
atmosphere with various beer brands and other alcoholic drinks in Nigeria
connecting with their existing and potential consumers.
This culture touch
point is in line with the view of social scientists that that beer is among the symbolic vehicles for identifying, describing,
constructing and manipulating cultural values and interpersonal relationships.
They classify different alcoholic beverages in terms of their social and
cultural meanings.
Historians submit
that Beer has always been popular – since times of ancient Babylon and Greece,
Mesopotamia and Egypt and is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced,
dating back to at least the fifth millennium BC.
Anthropologists and
archaeologists also believe that it was a taste for beer, not bread that
started the cultivation of barley in around 9000BC, known as the agricultural
revolution. Beer didn't just change the world; historians insist it saved it!
Meanwhile partners of the forthcoming Nigeria Beer Festival
are also assured of world-standard facilities as the organisers of the Nigeria
Beer Festival have partnered with reputable and qualified architects from
Europe to design modular stands to fit into any shape or style desired by
exhibitors.
Oluwaleimu said that
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is expected to close the festival during the
Independence Day Mega Concert that will parade an array of A-list Nigerian
artistes, which will feature eye-popping fireworks display.
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