It was refurbished and re-opened in 2009 after being burnt down during the tenure of Musiliu Obanikoro as Local Government Chairman of Lagos Island in 1997.
The venue is run by Eventful Ltd.
To visit the companies' website; click here
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| Front (right entrance) |
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| Building's front entry |
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| Inside Main Hall (stage) |
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| Inside Main Hall (decorator working on stage background wall) |
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| Inside Main Hall |
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| Facing right side of Main Hall |
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| Facing left side of Main Hall |
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| Work commencing for an event |
*(the above are my images taken with my phone)
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Beautiful mosaic and African authentic sculpture at the foyer once you get
into the building. The Main hall is where the brown wood doors are.
To the left and the right are staircase leading to the other spaces. Image culled from http://lookingforgoodinlagos.blogspot.com/
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| This is the left side of the above image. To your right you also have the same kind of staircases and the golden chandeliers are more evident when there. Image culled from http://smile4kenny.blogspot.com/ |
Venue Review:
The venue has a main hall (above); a medium L shaped hall, and a changing room; all on the ground floor. The changing room is sometimes used as a mini hall (the furniture is simply re-arranged to suit your needs).
I'd say the hall can comfortably seat about 600 people banquet style with a reasonable dance area. Any more than that it begins to get tight. The venue has good bathrooms at certain points. There is one close to the stage that the couple or main celebrants can cordon off as theirs for the day. Two caterers can set up inside the hall. The outside foyer can also be used for minimal vendors (the venue management do not usually allow this due to the fact that the foyer is for all the businesses in the building).
I like the fact that the venue has a changing room.
I like the fact that the venue has ample space to allow you keep souvenirs for instance in a separate room. They could also keep some other items for you depending on what it is (strictly at the discretion of management).
The fact that drinks are iced on the left side of the foyer is not an issue but the hall has only one main entrance (down side). So all the waiters and ushers, and visitors/attendees bump into each other going in and out. This should not be so... Imagine if there's a fire or leak or something. Quite hazardous/dangerous. Where there is one main entrance, the entrance should be extremely wide. Some drinks vendors also end up causing a slippery entrance floor (you have to get good drinks vendors). The pillars in the hall are also a nightmare but I can only imagine that it's in line with the original structure of the building.
The central Air conditioning unit is usually on-point; and the cleaners usually do a good job of cleaning prior to an event.
They also have an area for small chops and amala vendor to fry/cook/barbecue.
Parking is not as terrible as one would think. They have 3 parking areas. With the proper employment of Lastma, Police and other security personnel; it should be fine and dandy.
For a medium sized intimate venue, I'd say it'd be fab.
T.E.N.I
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