Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, this weekend
revealed that more than N36 billion is spent by Lagosians annually to organise
parties. The governor said this at the 4th edition of the Lagos Ignite
Enterprise and Employability project, a joint youth empowerment programme
between the government and the Afterschool Graduate Development Centre, AGDC.
Governor Fashola said:
“This was the study of night life carried out by the
government in five local governments including Agege, Mushin, Ifako-Ijaiye and
Ikeja and another local government. It showed that more than N36 billion was
spent on 1555 parties held within the period. We did a study between October
and November last year. We studied from Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights,
three days every week for four weeks which was 12 nights. In 12 nights, 1555
parties were held in these local governments. In terms of drinks, food and all
other engagements during such parties, about N1.2 billion was spent and when we
dis-aggregated them we saw how much went to DJ, MC, food and drinks, the total
picture in the state now and I don’t want to give you a wrong number but it’s
something in the region of about N3 billion monthly on that side of our life
and people are playing and impacting on that side of our economy.
The governor further
stated that Aso Ebi alone gulped a minimum of N1.2billion monthly.
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