Bigwigs grace Portugal’s Lagos Consular office opening

Members of the diplomatic community, captain of industries, businessmen and women from the economic and social terminus were last Tuesday gathered for the grand opening of Portugal’s Consular office in Lagos.

The formal inauguration inside CBC Towers in Lekki Phase 1 was with fanfare and had a mixture of high flyers in attendance, from corporate players to high-ranking Nigerians and all other revelers in between.

The mini-cocktail gathering also paved way for guests to mingle, exchange business ideas and deliberated, mainly on bilateral economic and social relations.

The Portuguese Ambassador to Nigeria, Antonio Pedro Rodrigues Da-Silva, while addressing the guests, stressed the need to expand the bilateral relation to Lagos State to consolidate on better service and announced Pedro F. Hipolito as the Honourary Consul of the office.

Hipolito, who has spent almost seven years in the Nigeria, is a thoroughbred diplomat and businessman.