TONY ELUMELU BRINGS TRANSCORP HOTEL TO LAGOS
Tony Elumelu led Transcorp Hotels Plc is planning to spread its tentacles to the country's commercial nerve centre, Lagos and has begun planning to build a five-star hotel in the upmarket Ikoyi neighbourhood of the state. The facility, a 300room hotel towering 20 storeys, will also feature a 21-storeyed office block, with construction estimated to cost $110 million. In addition, the suave businessman is already putting finishing touches to replicate the Eko Hotel Convention Centre in the Federal Capital Territory. The event centre is expected to have a 3,500 to 5,000 seating capacity and will be located at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel. While the delivery date for the events centre is expected to be in the first quarter of 2014, no time has been announced as the expected delivery date for the hotel project.
Last week when THEWILL Society and Entertainment section did a feature story on 21st century traditional queens, one person's photograph that was conspicuously missing was that of Olori Elizabeth Opeoluwa Ogunwusi. Although her name was mentioned in the story, her photograph wasn't part of the five other queens the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, married in one month in quick succession. And this is simply because, unlike her co-wives who have all embarked on photo shoots to announce their statuses as queens, there is no clear public photograph of her in the public space save for the blurry one she took on her wedding day at her parent's home in Magodo, Lagos, with the groom in absentia. Also, quite unlike her co-wives who have not stopped hugging the limelight since their status got elevated, Olori Elizabeth is not in the least bit bothered about social or public validation. The lady has simply gone into oblivion leaving many to wonder if the Ooni really married her. Well, he did and she is in fact the number two in order of hierarchy. No one seems to know whether she is hibernating out of public glare in Nigeria or she has returned to her base in Scotland where she is a data processor.