N1b generated from Lagos Countdown 2013 – LASAA boss..
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less than N1b must have been generated at the last edition of Lagos
Countdown, the music festival organised by the Lagos State Government as
part of the tourism drive of the government.
The
event, which holds yearly to mark the end of every year in style at the
Bar Beach stretch in Victoria Island, Lagos, is among the leading
tourism initiatives in Africa.
Disclosing
this during a press conference held in Lagos on Monday as part of the
build up to the event today, Managing Director of the Lagos State
Signage and Advertising Agency (LASAA), George Kayode Noah, however said
the figure is not the money that accrues into government’s coffers.
He
added that the estimation is for the trading activities and other trade
related efforts that went on during the last edition of the annual
concert including monetary transactions between advertisers, lawyers,
agencies, traders, transporters and the rest.
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