BCPG members urged President Tinubu to give urgent attention to the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the abandoned Old Federal Government Secretariat and the adjoining Ikoyi Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos. Recall that the Old Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi, a 12-storey edifice constructed in 1976 and largely abandoned in 1991 following the relocation of the Federal Capital to Abuja, was once a beehive of government activities. The Old Federal Secretariat occupies approximately 120,000 square metres, while the three Ikoyi Towers are located on a separate parcel measuring about 12,140.569 square metres (approximately three acres) of prime land in Ikoyi. “In the same spirit, the remodelling of the Ikoyi Federal Secretariat and Ikoyi Towers is expected to stimulate comparable regeneration in Ikoyi, which is widely regarded as the President’s primary constituency and residential base,” the group said. “In light of the foregoing, we urge Mr President to use his influence to convert decades of underutilisation into opportunity through the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the Ikoyi Old Federal Government Secretariat and Ikoyi Towers.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 09, 2026 11:50 UTC