Businesswoman urges Sanwo-Olu to check rising rent costs in Lagos

A fashionable concern proprietor successful Lagos State has appealed to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to urgently modulate the rising outgo of location and store rents, informing that galore businesses are struggling to survive.

The call-out was made by societal media influencer and entrepreneur, Laura Ikeji, who spoke successful a video presently circulating online.

Speaking connected behalf of businesswomen and tiny concern owners successful Lagos, Ikeji said galore entrepreneurs are frustrated by changeless rent increases, which she described arsenic unbearable.

“To Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, we the Business Women Association of Lagos State, whether we are founders oregon owners of tiny businesses, we are frustrated,” she said.

Ikeji disclosed that she presently pays implicit ₦30 cardinal successful rent for 2 shops, with 1 costing ₦30 cardinal and the different ₦16 million.

She expla...