Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday said that FESTAC’77 was a celebration of African diverse and rich cultural heritage and not a fetish festival as erroneously believed.

Residents of Community III of Festac Town, comprising 311 Road, 31/312 Road and  21 Road, respectively, say they will only cooperate with the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, when the company installs pre-paid meters as advised by the Federal Government.  This, according to residents, would save them from the arbitrary and exorbitant assessment monthly bills per flat of between N15,000 and N35,000 respectively.

Fifty-six countries and nine states have indicated interest to participate in the one weeklong commemoration of FESTAC”77@40 beginning on Nov.6 in Lagos.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has ordered Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, to resolve the complaints of demand for pre-paid meters and outrageous bills made by some residents of Festac Town, Lagos.

Some Staff of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, in Festac Town, Lagos, yesterday, disconnected about 80 flats at 312 Road area of the town, from power supply, following the resistance by the residents that their power supply would not be disconnected over unbearable estimated bills they are forced to pay every month.

lagos—Residents of Festac town in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State have decried the two weeks’ power outage in the area, stressing that the outage was causing untold hardship on the people.

Electricity consumers in Festac area in Amuwo Odofin, Local Government, Awoyaya area in Ibeju Lekki and other areas in Lagos State, have bemoaned the poor power supply to their communities in the last one month.

Elder Statesman and former Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Femi Okunnu on Tuesday expressed sadness over the current status of the Federal Secretariat in Lagos and other abandoned and surplus assets of the Federal Government in the State, urging that the assets be returned to the State Government for effective and proper usage.

A don has advised the Centre for Black Arts and African Civilisation (CBAAC) to include intellectual activities as part of programmes for the celebration of FESTAC 77 @40.

As you enter the passage leading to the reception of the Centre for Blacks and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), Broad Street, Lagos, the carved replica of the 16th-century Benin ivory mask standing (about 20 x 10 feet) like a colossus near the staircase, both intimidates and pulls you like a magnate. It was the festival emblem for FESTAC ’77.