NAS in the News

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Pyrates Confraternity, says it was making plans to send a presentation to the Federal and State Ministries of Education for the inclusion of road safety into school curriculum.

The Cap’n of the Ikeja Zone of NAS, also known as Panama Deck, Mr. Godstime Awoze, made the submission during a road safety awareness programme for pupils of Estate and Ogba Primary Schools in Lagos.

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), on Saturday embarked on a hiking exercise, to call on Nigerians to get tested to enable them to know their HIV status. As part of activities to mark the international day of HIV/AIDS, in Abuja, the FCT branch of the NAS, gathered members to raise awareness about the pertinence of ending the AIDs scourge.

They called for stronger commitment from government, as well as advised Nigerians to take precautionary steps against contacting the virus.

The National Association of Seadogs, a humanitarian organisation, has condemned the slave trade in Libya, reports The Cable.

In a statement, the group said it finds it shocking that despite the abolition of slave trade, the practice is still on-going in Africa.

It however lauded the response of the Nigerian government to evacuate all Nigerians trapped in Libya, while calling on the government of other countries to do same.

The National Association of Seadogs, NAS, also known as the Pyrates Confraternity in Lagos State, carried out a Lassa fever Awareness Campaign within the state, Saturday 26 August, 2017, to sensitise the public on the dangerous nature of the disease, following the embarrassing outbreak of the disease again this year in Nigeria that has claimed over 56 lives between January and August 2017.

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) also known as the Pyrates Confraternity, Egbeda, Lagos State chapter, Saturday carried out a Lassa fever awareness campaign within the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state, to sensitise the public on the dangerous nature of the disease, following the embarrassing outbreak of the disease again this year in Nigeria that has claimed over 56 lives between January and August 2017 according to official records.

Succour came the way of indigent pregnant women, children and people with limb problems as the National Association of Seadogs, NAS, distributed free birthing kits and crutches to them in Byazhin community, in Kubwa, on the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The National Association of Seadogs, also known as Pyrates Confraternity, on Friday offered one year educational scholarship to two pupils of Community Secondary School in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State.

The group had earlier on Thursday offered free medical check-up for tuberculosis and other ailments as well as dispensed drugs to 250 persons in Calabar.

The road to Amatolo in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State is bumpy and dusty. The road, constructed  through self-efforts of the people, is passable only during the dry season. During the rains, the people of Amatolo and adjoining communities resort to the use of boats to reach their kith and kin in the affected communities. However,  the bumpy road is not the only source of worry to the people.

The community lacks functional health facilities. Many narrated their harrowing experiences in trying to get medical care, either, in Oporoma, only accessible by the water, or Amassoma, accessible by road during dry season, and water during rainy season.