National Museum, Onikan records 41, 826 visitors in 2017

The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Lagos office
on Thursday said it had recorded 41,826 visitors in 2017.
NCMM’s Head of Education Department, Mr. Emmanuel Omotosho, said that
the commission suffered low patronage towards the end of the year due
to fuel scarcity.
He said that the scarcity accounted for a shortfall in patronage when
compared with 46,359 visitors recorded in 2016.
He gave the record as: January – 1, 015, February – 5, 523, March –
10, 984, April – 2,093, May – 2, 206, June – 4, 347, July – 2, 625,
August – 1, 588, September – 1, 269, October – 3, 352, November –
4,107 and December – 2,715.
Omotosho said that the museum hosted 42,724 in 2015, 46,359 in 2016
and 41,826 in 2017 with a difference of 4,533 when compared to 2016.
He noted that before now, patronage at the museum had been on the
increase, saying this was affected  by the induced fuel scarcity.
“It is unfortunate that patronage went down last year due to fuel
scarcity, we were doing well since the beginning of the year, but the
fuel scarcity experienced in December gave us this result.
“We hope this problem is finally resolved so that people will not be
deprived of coming into the museum to gain knowledge,” he said.