Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has commissioned the tallest hotel in West Africa, called, Intercontinental Lagos which was erected at a cost of N30 billion. The hotel, located at Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, is a 23-storey building housing 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.

The hotel was commissioned today Sunday September 29, as governor Fashola stated that the hotel would surely boost the hospitality and tourism industry in the state and urged other entrepreneurs to look inward and invest their money in hotels and public utilities such as roads.

According to him, the hotel is the only 5-star hotel in Nigeria as at now, and it would help to shape the hospitality industry in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole.