Photos Of An Aridolf Hotel In Bayelsa State Allegedly Owned By Patience Jonathan

The Aridolf hotel in Yenagoa that is Allegedly Owned By Nigeria First Lady, Patience Dame Jonathan is an unlikely monument to kitsch on a reclaimed swamp in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger delta

In the lobby, Louis XIV furniture is accompanied by bowls of plastic fruit, faux Dutch landscapes and a grotesquely gaudy chandelier. The hotel is redolent of the riches on display in a region that for half a century has generated the bulk of Nigeria’s wealth.....

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