BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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LAGOS State Records and Archives Bureau, LASRAB, wants to partner with Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, in the area of records and archives management.
Biodun Onayele, director general, LASRAB, made the declaration recently while receiving a delegation from the SNEPCO on a courtesy visit to his office at the headquarters of LASRAB in Magodo, Lagos, saying the Bureau was ready to work with institutions, companies and organisations that had established archives.
Onayele emphasised that Lagos, being a forward looking state, was the only state in Nigeria that deemed it necessary to have a permanent repository designated for both records and archives
According to him, what obtains in other states is a situation where departments are established either as records or archives department, unlike the LASRAB which is an autonomous bureau housing both records and archives.
He told the visitors that the LASRAB was a young bureau with a modest beginning and vibrant future, stressing that the decision to establish the bureau was informed by the need to ensure that tracks of records were kept from when they were created to when they would become reference point for historical purpose.
Onayele also sought for collaboration with the SNEPCO in the areas of capacity building, donation of archival materials on Lagos and photographs of old Lagos in the custody of the company to the bureau.
In her remark, Helen Nwaobi, head, Document & Records Management, SHELL Sub-Sahara Africa and leader of the delegation to the bureau, said the SNEPCO would be willing to work with the LASRAB and consequently advised that a formal request be sent to the organisation for the collaboration.
While expressing her delight on the high standard of professionalism maintained by the agency as an archival institution, Nwaobi stated that her organisation would be looking forward to establish a cordial working relationship with the LASRAB.
Similarly, the management, staff and officials of the Nigerian Institute of Training and Development, NITAD, Lagos State chapter led by Oluwaseyi Kuton, its chairman, also paid a courtesy visit to the LASRAB, seeking for collaboration to promote records and archives management in Lagos State in particular and Nigeria in general.
— Dec 1, 2015 @ 19:10 GMT
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