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Captain Ferguson
Jabi Boat Club
Who is Captain
Ferguson?
I am the captain of the Jabi
Boat Club. I have been in
Abuja for a bit. I am a project
management consultant and
I have been doing that for
almost twenty years before
the JBC came into being.
What inspired you to
create the Jabi Boat
Club?
Abuja is really not known
as the hospitality space and
there are not a lot of places
people can leave their houses
and relax. So the idea for the
JBC has always been there.
You know what they say –
it’s different when you have
a plan in your head and its
different when the plan is
real. So we decided to come experience and the water
up with something new.
craft is new. They have never
had it in Abuja. We tried to
The JBC has features
bring a bit of Lagos here. We
unique to the Abuja
know how Lagos is – it is fast
tourism sector, what
moving, the youth population
informed this?
makes things happen. Without
the youth, the economy is
We have travelled around grounded. There are brains
and we have seen what there. We have people waiting
other people have done and to be given opportunities to
we realized that tourism is excel in whatever they want
the new oil. Government has to do.
exercised and has displayed
that it is moving from the What does the JBC
oil zone to the non-oil zone. mean for the average
Hospitality and tourism, for funseeker?
other countries has been
used to make money, grow The JBC is a place where
the economy, GDP, attract you get the total experience,
investors and foreigners to sit asides getting to wine and
and relax. So I think that it’s a dine with your family. The
no-brainer, it is an emerging total experience, even as an
market we can integrate Abuja resident, you feel like a
and get the best out of. The tourist. People plan to spend
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