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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