Gov. Fashola Unveils West Africa’s Tallest Hotel

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos today
unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa,
Intercontinental Lagos, built at a cost of
N30 billion.
The hotel located at Kofo Abayomi Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria is a
23-storey building containing 358 rooms
and 37 suites and a Presidential suite.
The Intercontinental Lagos, a subsidiary of
the Intercontinental Hotel Group, IHG, is
owned by the Milan Group.
Unveiling the 5-star hotel, Fashola said the
edifice would surely boost the hospitality
and tourism industry in the state, while
urging other entrepreneurs to look inward
and invest their money in hotels and public
utilities such as roads.
According to him, the unveiling of the hotel
represented the increasing brands of hotels
making Nigeria their choice destinations,
saying that the tourism industry would be
boosted by the new edifice.