By Emeka Amaefula
NIGERIA’S MULTI-BILLIONAIRE & PORT HARCOURT BORN BIG BOY HIGH CHIEF DUMO LULU-BRIGGS GOES INTO REAL ESTATE
COMPLETES MULTI-BILLION NAIRA 19-STOREY GREYSTONE TOWER @ LAGOS
High Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs is not your ordinary investor who will gloss over projects but one who is serious and very creative and never misses any opportunity to create wealth and help provide services where others neglect such. The cool-headed hardworking scion and heir apparent of multi-billionaire late High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, in 2015 came up with GREYSTONE TOWER a mixed-use estate development project, a vision of bringing light in the skylines of Victoria Island Lagos. This is an exquisite eye-popping real estate 19-storey high rise project tagged “GREYSTONE TOWER” located at no. 12 Idowu Taylor street Engineering close Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria and by 2019 GREYSTONE TOWER was up in the sky completed and well-furnished for use making the total ground area of 2,031 square meters indeed a site many have been trooping in to seeing most of the time in Lagos.
High Chief, Barrister Dumo Lulu-Briggs, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Kaduna graduate of Law with Master’s Degree in Law LL.M from London School of Economics, LSE United Kingdom is not someone you cannot notice at first meeting as his towering height and elegant velvet complexion with cool mien faced with glittering stud mixed grey hair an alluring personality to behold. He didn’t see golden spoon early in life but grew up with his mother toiling in the streets of Port Harcourt selling Akara beans cake delicacy before his father in 1992 hit it big in the indigenization policy of former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who graciously granted Oil Mining License to late High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs’ Moni Pulo Petroleum Development Company Limited. This is the pedigree of Nigeria’s silent hardworking businessman multi-Dollar Billionaire, High Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs who currently is the Chairman of Platform Petroleum Development Company Ltd after having served as Executive Director of MONI PULO Oil and Gas for many years until 2004 when he opted out to try his hands in many ventures as a youth.
Severally since 2003 political dispensation, he had aspired to be elected as Governor of Rivers state so as to bring development to his native Rivers state and that aspiration and burning desire has not died down instead, he had kept his dreams alive at each election year believing that his good people of Rivers state will someday find him worthy to serve them in that Governorship capacity.
The Ear Witness News Publisher/Editor-In- Chief, EMEKA AMAEFULA (+2348111813069) here brings to you floor to floor rundown of GREYSTONE TOWER 19-floors project and how this illuminating high-rise has changed the face of real estate in Ikoyi area of Lagos.
Greystone Tower occupies 1,110 square meters and the main contractor that handled it is Dori Construction & Engineering Ltd. The parking section of the building takes first to fifth Floors being sedan cars of office users and that of service users all will fix their cars from first floor to fifth floor. Then, 6th floor with an area of 506 square meters is dedicated to Café and restaurants with a Gym section too. Each flat size remains 100-to-150 square feet.
Then, from 7th floor to 16th floor are expansive offices all found in 10 floors tastefully furnished for any company’s comfort as found overseas. For those who want to have relaxation or necessity and providence need accommodation 17th Floor has en-suit luxury Four 3-Bedroom Pent-House apartments as commercial executive residences indeed which occupies the entire floor.
The Port Harcourt Big Boy exhibited his experience in Real estate projects when he dedicated 19th floor specially for a Roof top and skyline Lounge with enough sunshine and oxygen to supply the comfort only nature can guarantee. The entire Greystone Tower has a 24/7 security and fire Fighting system. There is a standby Electricity Generating set which is 24/7 for the luxurious environment and always has a surveillance system that secures life and property of users and lodgers.
If you think that the rental cost comes expensive, wait until your inquiry receives swift response as all the floors come with 2 HVAC systems and rent price of $700 per square Meter with a gross and net lettable space of 1,119 square Meters and 923 square meters respectively. The Four 3-Bedroom apartments are specifically for sales on concessionary occupying an entire floor.
Not done yet, there is a helicopter landing arena on the top floor providing services for the people on the move and all structural materials come with steel provided with an exquisite view of the Atlantic Ocean overseeing the posh environment of Banana Island, Bar Beach and Marina area. Already the Corporate Headquarters of Platform Petroleum Development Company Limited has taken up office space in Greystone Tower.
The great thing about GREYSTONE TOWER is the role played by Lagos state government in estate development first, is the fact that successive Government have a well laid down Master plan for various zones in the state and when High Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs wanted to put up only a 15-Floor tower in Idowu Taylor Street, the Lagos state Town Planners Office told him point blank that the area has been designated for 19-Floors projects, that is how he quickly ran back to his Engineers and Architect for redesigning exercise and all came up with this 19-Floor GREYSTONE TOWER. Shining in the skyline is this project which has no other competitor except 28-Floors Total-Fina-Elf Building which stands as the tallest building in Lagos followed by GREYSTONE TOWER a torchbearer of Port Harcourt born High Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs.
In 2022 he has indicated interest to serve his good people of Rivers state as their Governor if elected in 2023 Governorship election in Rivers state.
——————-Emeka Amaefula—-+2348111813069