Lagos, Israel Seek Robust Legislation Exchange Programme

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Tuesday canvassed for exchange of programmes between the state House of Assembly and its counterpart in Israel to foster robust legislation and better relationship.
 Obasa who stated this when he received the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Guy Feldman at the Lagos State House of Assembly Complex in Ikeja , Lagos on a courtesy visit  recalled the long standing relationship between Nigeria and Israel.
  He noted that Lagos Assembly and Israeli parliament would be better off through exchange of programmes saying , “We have thrown our hands open to embrace your ideas to develop an interact mostly here in Lagos where we have the heartbeat of the nation. We can as well exchange programmes in terms of parliamentary activities.
 “It is truly a great opportunity for us to partner with Israel. We have had relationship in the past and I am sure Nigerian benefitted from this relationship.
 “We have had many of your experts in Nigeria, our people have benefitted in terms of education, engineering and some other things you have been doing. And we still have lots of your companies in Nigeria working which are beneficial to us.
 He added, “Your coming here today is an attestation to the good job Lagos is doing. Our population here is more than 18 million and the economy of Lagos is fifth in the West Africa coast for now. We are sure that we will move to second in Africa. We are ready to embrace you and do things that will improve on our economy and well beings of our people in Lagos.”
Earlier, Ambassador Feldman who was accompanied by the Senior Economic Officer at the Embassy, Florence Osuji and Managing Director Emi Systems, Eyal Mesika explained that Israel with a population of 8.5 million, 20 per cent Muslims and the remaining percentage for the Jews, said that the country had witnessed a lot of challenges but had to learn and forge ahead.
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Tuesday canvassed for exchange of programmes between the state House of Assembly and its counterpart in Israel to foster robust legislation and better relationship.
 Obasa who stated this when he received the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Guy Feldman at the Lagos State House of Assembly Complex in Ikeja , Lagos on a courtesy visit  recalled the long standing relationship between Nigeria and Israel.
  He noted that Lagos Assembly and Israeli parliament would be better off through exchange of programmes saying , “We have thrown our hands open to embrace your ideas to develop an interact mostly here in Lagos where we have the heartbeat of the nation. We can as well exchange programmes in terms of parliamentary activities.
 “It is truly a great opportunity for us to partner with Israel. We have had relationship in the past and I am sure Nigerian benefitted from this relationship.
 “We have had many of your experts in Nigeria, our people have benefitted in terms of education, engineering and some other things you have been doing. And we still have lots of your companies in Nigeria working which are beneficial to us.
 He added, “Your coming here today is an attestation to the good job Lagos is doing. Our population here is more than 18 million and the economy of Lagos is fifth in the West Africa coast for now. We are sure that we will move to second in Africa. We are ready to embrace you and do things that will improve on our economy and well beings of our people in Lagos.”
Earlier, Ambassador Feldman who was accompanied by the Senior Economic Officer at the Embassy, Florence Osuji and Managing Director Emi Systems, Eyal Mesika explained that Israel with a population of 8.5 million, 20 per cent Muslims and the remaining percentage for the Jews, said that the country had witnessed a lot of challenges but had to learn and forge ahead.