Record Set As Arthur Nwabufo Becomes The First Nigerian To Reach Antarctica

 The celebrated Nigerian is a navigator and

cadet at the Far Eastern State Technical

Fisheries University of Russia

Arthur Nwabufo is a Nigerian that has made the

country really proud. He is a navigator and

cadet at the Far Eastern State Technical

Fisheries University of Russia.

The Cable reports that Nwabufo is presently on

an “around-the-world” expedition on the

Pallada as he is also said to be the first citizen

of the country to get to the Antarctica on the

Russian fleet.

It should be noted that the Pallada vessel is

known to have been built in 1989 at the

shipyard of Gdansk in Poland. It is also

considered as the pride of the university.

The underpinning of the expedition is to

celebrate 200 years’ discovery of the

Antarctica by Russian navigators.

Nwabufo's feat was made known in a letter

sent to him Tuscheko, th head of foreign

department in his school. Photo sources: The

Cable and CIM Heritage

The announcement of the Nigerian feat was

announced in a letter signed and sent by Olgga

Tischenko, the head of the foreign affairs

department of the institution.

The letter partly read: ”This is to inform the

Nigerian Embassy, that Mr Arthur Oge Nwabufo

a cadet from the Far Eastern State Technical

Fisheries University is currently sailing on board

sail training ship 'Pallada' on the Round the

World Expedition and he is the only Nigerian

among cadets and crew-members of the sail

ship.”