This is Eko Hotel & Suites

This is Eko hotel & suites in the 70s. The hotel was Established in 1977 as Eko Holiday Inn on Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, it is part of the Chagoury Group of companies. Today, Eko hotel building comprises 825 rooms and suites. Eko hotel was designed by architect Oluwole Olumuyiwa. He was the first Nigerian graduate of Architecture to return to Nigeria from abroad in 1958 and set up a practice; Oluwole Olumuyiwa and Associates in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1960. He was the first President of Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON). Oluwole was co-director of Africa's first architectural review "The West African Builder and Architect". He was Nigeria's delegate to the CAA conference in 1964 and subsequently became President of the Association

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