 The Nigerian Navy has said it will continue to offer support to its personnel in actualizing their dreams apart from their constitutional mandate of securing the Nigerian maritime environment. This was disclosed in Porto Kots, the river state capital, during the unveiling of a book by one of its personnel, Commander Umar Sidi Abubaka, who chose to write poetry. The report. Rising and falling in the entanglement of ties. At the launch of the book titled, Like Butterflies Cuttered by the Art of Rascals, the commander of the Nigerian Navy's ship Pathfinder, Commander Suleiman Ibrahim, who was represented by Navy Captain Stanley Oome said that the Nigerian Navy will continue to offer support to its personnel. Commander Ibrahim explained how Sidi began writing poetry for the Nigerian Defence Academy publication, the variant, while still a four-year cadet in the year 2000. Today we witnessed one of our own launching a poem, a book containing a lot of poems. And this is not his first, this is the second book he's launching and there are so many other publications. So it goes a long way to tell that the military is a body, an embodiment of so many talents, so many professionalism. Reviewing the book, a professor at the Amadebello University, Zarya Ismail Balang, pointed out that Sidi's obsession and artistic involvement, especially with abstract expressionism, is central to his development as a writer and the growth of his poetic works. Sidi is among the few poets to be regarded and acclaimed by both popular and academic creators. I said, like O'Hara, Sidi appears to be more concerned with processes, acts and performances than with any finished product. His poems from his past book to the present collection are less about anything than about the processes of the poem in the act of composing itself. Butterfly represents peace. Butterfly is tender. Its harmony is unit of Nigeria. There's no doubt about that. And I'm addressing that people should begin to think of Nigeria. People should begin to think about the nation and not to put the nation down. That's exactly what, to me, that's my own perception about this picture of Pente. There's a scatter about by arts and arts camps. So even though you're a weekend man, it's an act. Every time it's an act, please allow us to do it. After the book launched, the convener and author, Commander Umar Sidi, stated that poetry is a gateway to knowledge and also explained inspiration behind the book. Every individual has an endeavor. He does. Some people go into spots in order to leave the fullness of their experiences on earth. So for me, I discovered reading long time ago and I also discovered poetry as a very way of accessing the innermost recesses of the mind, of the soul. It is very important for us to be able to do that because that is when we're able to be true to ourselves. So poetry has been a vehicle which I join in through life. I try to manage my existential anxieties and all that and all that. So that's been a very good thing for me. The author is a helicopter pilot with the Niger Navy and is currently the Bay's operations officer of the Niger Navy's ship Pathfinder Port Hucket River State. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.