Justus Clinton Uranta, former managing director of Niger Insurance plc who retired about a year ago after spending over 30 years in underwriting and risk management, is pitching his tent in tourism.
Uranta is the chairman of the newly established Lekki Miami Beach Resort, a home of comfort located on the beach line area of Lekki in Etiosa Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Uranta, partnering some Nigerians living abroad, says Lekki Miami Beach Resort is an effort to replicate if not equal to what you find in Miami Resort in Florida or Monaco or London, but something similar that provides reasonable level of comfort that Nigerians and foreigners in Nigeria will appreciate.
Speaking at the official opening, Uranta states that having travelled to many parts of the world and seeing how they take advantage of beach lines to create comfort, I and my colleagues decided to go into this area, and we are excited it has come to fruition.
With this in place and the kind of infrastructural facilities available, Nigerians who do not want to travel abroad for leisure can get the same level of comfort here, relax and enjoy themselves, move to the beach side, make use of tennis court, have mini golf course, have a gym and also reduce cost of oversea trips, he says.
According to him, owners of the resort are positive about the future and hope to see a time when it would have grown to become the Paris Miami in Nigeria.
Bakare Elegushi, a lawyer who represented the Elegushi of Ikate community, says the coming of the resort is a healthy development not just for the communities around, but Nigeria on the whole.
“We are happy about this because it is going to open up other developments, and including MTN Village, which is among the projects coming up in this area,” he says, saying it is going to create employment and I am happy that our community will benefit from it.
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