Lagos NUJ Plans N74m Guest House

The Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has unveiled plans to build a 20-room guest house in Shomolu area of the state.

The two-storey edifice will replace the abandoned bungalow building formerly used as the secretariat of the union on Adeola Street until 2004.

The project that is estimated to cost about N74 million, is expected to be completed in 12 months and will feature car park, reception, restaurant and bar on the ground floor, and 10 all en-suite rooms on the first and second floors.

Speaking during the laying of the foundation yesterday, the Chairman, NUJ, Lagos State Council, Mr. Deji Elumoye, said, “We have been pondering on what will become of the property left behind. Eventually, Lagos journalists at one of the monthly congresses agreed that the bungalow should give way to a more befitting structure to serve a better purpose.”

He explained that the guest house would be financed from proceeds accruing from the four-storey house named after a former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Adeyemo Alakija Street in Victoria Island.

A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, commended the initiative by the Lagos NUJ, saying he was impressed that the union was going to spend N74 million to build the guest house.