nuzo:

This vision is fantastic.
However, nigerians would always have doubts;

1. Because of lies and corruption that lie beneath such vision in nigeria.

2. It tends to be wasteful at this time when there are lots of slums that could easily and cheaply be converted to mega clean cities/suburbs. I wish Fashola, lagosians and nigerians luck on this one.

The Speaker of the Federal House of Representa-tives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole on yesterday assured that the Federal Government would continue to offer necessary support to Lagos State on the development of the Eko Atlantic City Project.

The Speaker spoke in company of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) when they both undertook an inspection of work at the Eko Atlantic City project at the Lagos Bar Beach .

In his words: "For Lagos State Government to come in and do what it has done and rescue the Bar Beach, we at the Federal level will continue to support whenever and wherever to keep Lagos improving".

Lagos State Governor assured that a model city to be known as Eko Atlantic City would develop from the second phase of the present Bar- Beach which is about to commence.

He added that the new city would a twenty first century city that is one and half the size of Victoria Island with no problem of pollution and refuse and twenty four hours electricity supply,

Fashola assured that the new city would one that compares to any other city anywhere in the world.

The Lagos State Governor described the progress on the work as the beginning of development and progress and a reflection of the fact that the State has a very focus team which is ready to discharge its responsibilities as it is expected of all political office holders.

The Speaker while responding to a question from newsmen said for Lagos to earn any special allocation, the State must be ready to lobby the lawmakers just like any other state would expected to do.

Earlier while briefing the Speaker and Governor Fashola on the project, the Managing Director of South EnergyX limited, Mr. David Frame informed that the first phase which has just been completed involved the protection of the shoreline by 1.5kilometres.

Mr Frame said the total size of the new city would be 8.2hectares and would include infrastructure and first class roads that are the hallmarks of a high rise development city.

He said the project which is being funded 100 percent by private investors aims to reclaim all land lost to erosion in the past.

He assured that there exist no fears of Tsunami in Lagos as there are no ports on the sea bed of the Atlantic Ocean as experience in the Far East has demonstrated.

The Governor and the Speaker were accompanied on the inspection by some members of the House of Representatives who accompanied the Speaker to Lagos .

davidif:

Look people, what Fashola is doing is wrong it is an example of putting the carriage before the horse. Its not the govts job to create wealth and build skyscrapers (business district or whatever they call it) hoping that rich westerners would come there, this is what happened in Thailand and other Asian countries and it failed. Go to Thailand and you would see empty skyscrapers. What happens when demand is a lot less than supply then? My friend in Dubai said the real estate bubble in Dubai just busted. This guys were doing the same thing that Fashola is now doing and guess what? all those skyscrapers they kept building nobody is leaving in it. Its the job of the govt to facilitate the creation of wealth by providing basic public goods like constant power supply, a sophisticated transportation network to boost commerce, and creating a well educated labor market which this guy is not doing. We can't become like America overnight. Fashola should have a bottom up approach by focussing on basic projects to boost the standard of living of people like access to clean water, rural development through agriculture and the electrification of the rural areas so as to provide so as to boost the standard of living of the people. It is all this factors that lead to a rich country. What is the purpose of building shiny skyscrapers when you have street hawkers begging foreigners with suits and ties to buy pure water or Nupe traders selling "guguru and epa" on the street next to a business executive in a maybach. This is the same problem in South Africa, the country might have a high GDP what is the PCI (per capita income)? With all there skyscrapers, you have the highest crime rate in the world because of people who move from rural areas to the city and wind up living in ghettos and because of lack of opportunity start committing crimes. Let's not jump the gun here by going ahead of ourselves instead of focusing on the things that matter the most, the average citizen and NOT the foreign investors or the elites and the nigerians coming back from abroad.
The govt should leave the building of the skyscrapers to the private sector and focus on our pathetic public school system. All it costs to have a world class medical school is $120 million dollars (20 for faculty and 100 for the facility). This would cost a lot less in Nigeria because of lower labor costs and permits cost. A world class engineering college costs less than that but i don't see Fashola focusing on that. He is focusing on planting flowers instead, you can put a make up on a burned victim but you still cannot hide the scars. You can build all the houses in Lagos all you want but what's the need when nobody can afford it.

Jakumo:

[size=20pt]Fashola For President of Nigeria 2011. [/size]