Chinese has an adage:
to give somebody fishing is better than give him a fish
A lot people live in Nigeria are now lack of faith and integrity,they just gain and get not to give and offer.
If you just give some food and money to slums and poor people,they will soon use out and goback poor , wangdering and begging.
The best  way for  Gov to improve nigeria sociaty is to offer more opportunities and jobs from new industry factories and new agricultry farms.
By now ,we find nothing except crude oil .
Hope this project be a chance.

Like i said in another thread concerning the project, it is extremely risky siting such a gigantic project on land reclaimed from the Atlantic. It should have been sited inland. We have had enough problems with Bar Beach and Ahmadu Ballo way on V/I. Scientists have been shouting for decades that the sea level will rise significantly over the next 100yrs and affect most coastal cities of the world. We should be planning how to deal with that instead of adding more problems.

Read the following report for more information from yahoo news.

Greenland ice could fuel severe U.S. sea level rise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York, Boston and other cities on North America's northeast coast could face a rise in sea level this century that would exceed forecasts for the rest of the planet if Greenland's ice sheet keeps melting as fast as it is now, researchers said on Wednesday.

Sea levels off the northeast coast of North America could rise by 12 to 20 inches more than other coastal areas if the Greenland glacier-melt continues to accelerate at its present pace, the researchers reported.

This is because the current rate of ice-melting in Greenland could send so much fresh water into the salty north Atlantic Ocean that it could change the vast ocean circulation pattern sometimes called the conveyor belt. Scientists call this pattern the meridional overturning circulation.

"If the Greenland melt continues to accelerate, we could see significant impacts this century on the northeast U.S. coast from the resulting sea level rise," said Aixie Hu, lead author of an article on the subject in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

"Major northeastern cities are directly in the path of the greatest rise," said Hu, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

This is an even bleaker assessment than an earlier study indicated. A March article in the journal Nature Geoscience said warmer water temperatures could shift ocean currents so as to raise sea levels off the U.S. northeast coast by about 8 inches more than the average global sea level rise.

NOT LIKELY BUT POSSIBLE

However, this earlier research did not include the impact of melting Greenland ice, which would speed changes in ocean circulation and send 4 to 12 more inches of water toward northeastern North America, on top of the average global sea level rise.

That could put residents of New York, Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia, at risk since these cities and others lie close to sea level now, Hu said in answer to e-mailed questions.

Not only would coastal residents be at direct risk from flooding but drainage systems would suffer as salty ocean water would move back into river deltas, changing the biological environment, Hu wrote in an e-mail.

"In a flooding zone, because the higher sea level may impede the function of the drainage system, the future flood may become more severe," he wrote. If cities are prone to subsidence -- where the ground sinks -- higher sea levels would also make that problem worse, according to Hu.

The ice that covers much of Greenland is melting faster now due to global climate change, raising world sea levels. But sea level does not rise evenly around the globe. Sea level in the North Atlantic is now 28 inches lower than in the North Pacific, because the Atlantic has a dense, compact layer of deep, cold water that the Pacific lacks.

Greenland's ice-melt rate has increased by 7 percent a year since 1996 but Hu said it is unlikely to continue. Still, he and his co-authors ran computer simulations that included this fast-paced melting, along with more moderate scenarios with ice-melt increasing by 3 percent or 1 percent annually.

Hu said it was hard to say whether the 7 percent annual increase could go on for the next 50 years but said it was possible since the current rate of increase in climate-warming carbon dioxide is higher than the high end of projections by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090527/sc_nm/us_climate_usa_sealevel_1
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Continuity is everything

so said.

Fashola isnt a politician and so i believe the dude is making use of this ample opportunity to showcase what he worth when it comes to[b] LAW [/b]

GAR3TH:

[size=15pt]A brand new site for the Eko atlantic opened, Take a look at the NEW LAGOS, [/size]

http://www.ekoatlantic.com/

Go to the video gallery and marvel

I think the Eko Atlantic is a very commendable project but there some things that have been overlooked. By reclaiming land more and more people will come to Lagos and before you know it will be overcrtowded again.
@Becomrich took the words out of my mouth, it was like he was ready my mind. What Gov Fashola should consider doing is buying land from Ogun,(Lagos is vey small) and develope the all levels of the best kind of housing in africa, as well as at least three major expressways from different directions into Lagos as well as train services. that way people can come in to work in Lagos but not necessary live there. It is an ambitious task but overpopulation and the possible neglect of other parts of Lagos are real threats.
Eko oni baje o!!

ajilete:

I think the Eko Atlantic is a very commendable project but there some things that have been overlooked. By reclaiming land more and more people will come to Lagos and before you know it will be overcrtowded again.
@Becomrich took the words out of my mouth, it was like he was ready my mind. What Gov Fashola should consider doing is buying land from Ogun,(Lagos is vey small) and develope the all levels of the best kind of housing in africa, as well as at least three major expressways from different directions into Lagos as well as train services. that way people can come in to work in Lagos but not necessary live there. It is an ambitious task but overpopulation and the possible neglect of other parts of Lagos are real threats.
Eko oni baje o!!

Like the people of Ogun State will willing agree. They are currently fighting over an area of land between the Lagos and Ogun State border.