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A two-year-old lion has been discovered in a residential building in the Victoria Island area of Lagos State. The lion said to be owned by a yet to be named Indian national, is caged at Number 229, Muri Okunola Street in Victoria Island.
        The Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, Yinka Egbeyemi, confirmed this to Channels Television on Sunday. According to him, men of the Nigeria Police Force have been deployed in the area. Egbeyemi also disclosed that efforts were ongoing by the state government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to evacuate the animal from the building. He added that the Indian national who owns the lion has been invited for questioning. It is well known in the middle east that it is very popular for people to keep wild animals like Tigers,lions and cheetahs as pets, it is however not common for people to keep such animals as pets in this part of the world and even if people do, it is not known if it is legal and allowed for people to keep such pets in Nigeria.