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BY NIGERIA'S FIRST PHOTOBLOGGER -

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This Tarkwa Bay Island beach is very popular with swimmers and water-sports enthusiasts. It also has a welcoming resident community. As it is far removed from the normal hustle and bustle of which Lagos city is noted for, you cannot but fall in love with this beautiful island. And unlike most public beaches in Lagos, this beach is not often noisy or overcrowded. This makes it a great place for some alone time with your significant other or perhaps a fun day out with your friends.

A lot has been said about the Tarkwa Bay Island Beach when you visit the Social Prefect and NaijaSingleGirls’ blogs about their visit and experience, but it is shocking to know that no one has really talked about the village that haboured the beautiful Tarkwa Bay Island Beach.

So, I picked up my cameras and decided to pay the Tarkwa Bay Island Village a visit. Despite the fact that I took quite a number of pictures detailing the lifestyle of people in the community, I also met with and interviewed the Baale of Tarkwa and the revelations were as enthralling as shocking:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8P4L955YFY

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History of Tarkwa Bay

Away from being a tourist attraction for both locals and foreigners, the Tarkwa Bay Island village which reeks of abandonment from the government of Lagos State holds an amazing story and history.

Tarkwa Bay used to be very unorganized with no definite pattern but this village has taken a new shape with the amazing organization of the residents in ensuring the village is more organized that in previous years.

Tightly packed shacks dot the landscape. Just few of the building are made of block and most of these were erected by the European sailors and slave merchants, who used the place either for leisure or as transit camp.
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Wikipedia’s incorrect information on Tarkwa Bay Island

From being a natural island with amazing natural beaches which was different from Wikipedia’s incorrect information that Tarkwa Bay was an “ARTIFICIAL BEACH” to the sojourn of Queen Elizabeth III and General Yakubu Gowon’s residency, this village reeks of amazing history that can’t be found in any books.

Before we get to the pictures, this interview with Chief Olatunji Maxwell and Chief Prince Saheed Onisiwo will make you fall in love with Tarkwa and also let you into a world that was left undocumented for a long time. A story of love, hate, abandonment and acceptance!

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The residents though, are fun loving. Every evening, residents and visitors of the Island moves out to have fun at the local gin stalls and beer parlous.

Nights at Ajegunle, in Tarkwa Bay, can be much busier than Abule and Okunayo, which are also other parts of the island. The fun spots play current tunes from within the country and elsewhere. Popularly played is the music of Timaya- a Bayelsa state born hiphop artiste.

The youths on the beach area in touch with current trends also. They dress in jeans, T-shirts, canvas and loafers which are sold in the local boutiques there. Like their mates elsewhere, they are also crazy about European football leagues. Any time there is a match, you will surely find them at the various viewing centres. Such teams as Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Barcelona FC and Real Madrid have them as fans. There is also a local football field, where the youths display their skill.

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Tarkwa Bay Island is just same as everywhere else in terms of people and lifestyle. The community being mentioned as a Sodom & Gomorrah is very unfair and belittles the amazing history behind a community that has been self sustaining for several years.

Tarkwa isn’t a Sex Haven of any sort! – Stop this propaganda!

Expensive community

Largely due to the how it is located, life on Tarkwa Bay is expensive. On the island is an acute case of suffering and smiling. Bottles of beer, sachet of water among other necessities, fall under this category.

The other oddities

Other oddities to note are the lack of adequate public or private toilets in Tarkwa Bay. When nature calls, the norm is to answer at the shoreline where they are being swept away by waves that comes and goes. Also on the island are quite a number of lunatics.

When Politicians visit

Even though they lack social amenities this does not in any way suggest that government and politicians are ignorant of the existence of Tarkwa Bay. During election, politicians defy all odds just to get in touch with the community. They will strip themselves of their ego, smartly bringing themselves t the level of these communities so as just to canvass for their votes, with promises of goodies and social amenities. But regrettably, these promises fade away like the sands carried off by the waves.

Churches and NGOs to the rescue

Unlike the government which has abandoned the people of Tarkwa bay, churches are in one way or the other trying to deal with their spiritual welfare. This congregation includes the Cherubim and Seraphim, Assemblies of God Church, International Pentecostal Holiness Church, Bible Life Church and Evangel Pentecostal Church, Our Lady of Tarkwa Bay Catholic Church. A number of their activities and impacts are evident in life on the beach presently.

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Last words on the documentary of Tarkwa Bay Island

Finally, as you can see there are in-born and associated problems in the Tarkwa Bay Island and also amazing investment opportunities in this community. As an NGO, this is the perfect opportunity to extend your arm of help and assistance to this unique island and as an investor, move away from the hustle of Lagos to a more serene environment where you can invest with amazing ROI for your money.

I've got more amazing pictures on the blog. Please check them out as well. I am sure this content will blow you away!

http://deedeesblog.com/tarkwa-bay-island-2018-shocking-story-behind-an-amazing-community/

dasparrow:
Stop generalising. That is the problem with some of you bloody Nigerians. This mindset is the reason why you Nigerian - bred men rape and molest. You people always erroneously think that everyone out there loves sex.

Nigeria is a society that treats unmarried people like the scum of the earth. So, whether a woman likes dick or not, she forces herself into getting married so that the obnoxious Nigerian society will get off her back.

Women who were sexually abused want nothing to do with men and their genital. Same for women who are asexual or lesbian. So stop generalising and thinking every single woman on the face of the earth loves dick because you cannot be more wrong.

DivinelyBlessed:
Most times, new cryptocurrencies are not worth a lot. Between $0.0004 and $0.10

Thetruthsayer10:
so it means Fulani doesn’t have to come to the state a private company just buy it and establish and distribute the cow in the state. How does this still stop the Fulani from trying to graze in the state.

buchai:
is like our budgets and thinking's now are more concentrated on cows than improving human and infrastructural development.

Mrchippychappy:
You have signed what papers? did you sign the paper with the consent of the people who voted you into power? I swear these southern governors are all stupid. When you let these guys in and dem no wan comot, then what? these governors are buffoons. This wouldn't end well!

onadana:
Pervert..dirty mind.Rgia is the only thing you saw..took your phone and snapped am sure with an erection.

PrecisionFx:
Nobody has steady electricity in Nigeria.



Solar n electric cars are cars for the future.

nelsoncool28:
This is 9ja. You will still buy fuel for your Gen to use & charge it.

omoboy110:
so are you saying the lifespan of the rechargeable battery in the car is more than 2 years? do you have idea of how much it cost to replace the batteries??

nelsoncool28:
$30,000? That's #10,000,000 that I will use to buy Mercedes GLK 450. I taya for this your post.

Stillfire:
I find it absolutely absurd Nigerians talking about 'chivalry'. Does Chivalry exist in the Nigerian context? Are Nigerian men 'chivalrous' to Nigerian women? The origins of this word which has medieval knightly symbolism has absolutely nothing to do with Africans. Modern western applications of the word like 'holding the car door for women', "offering" your jackets when it's "cold", has absolutely nothing to do with us.

Nigerian men were/are NEVER chivalrous. Nigerian women have never benefited from this 'chivalry' culture. Where we come from women SERVE men and not the other way round. This topic is dead on arrival and not applicable in our context. It should be 'debated' on a Western board. They are the ones that know what they mean by their 'chivalry'.

However, The FEMINIST language is to give courtesy to everybody, i.e to show politeness in one's attitude and behavior toward others. Holding the doors for people (no gender specificity) is polite. That is the FEMINIST view. Very simple and clear.

And Sagamite, the word FEMINIST is a very good tool to weed off badly behaved Nigerian males from ones life. Very, very effective and less stressful. As long as evil customs engineered by the patriarchy exists and parades itself as culture, religion and tradition, feminism MUST co-exist with it. Yes, it's been a long while, just remembered this site exists, thought Seun would have killed this nuisance site eons ago. I am back to torment your soul.


I remember being asked whether I was a feminist. I answered, “No.”

The girl who’d asked the question almost took my head off, “Do you have sisters?! A mother?! How can you live in this world and not be a feminist?”

She’d asked me the wrong question and assumed that because I didn’t define myself according to the “ism” known as feminism, I didn’t support the ideas of wellbeing, equality and progress for women.

She thought I dissociated myself from feminism because it was about the empowerment of women — in fact, I’m not a feminist because it’s an ism.

Isms often turn into breeding grounds for hate, propaganda and worst of all, dogma.

When you commit to an ism, you become chained not only to the idea you believe in, but also the ideas adopted by those driving the agenda of that ism.

When I was younger, I’d always considered myself a feminist. I’m a man who was raised by women — a mother and four sisters — how could I make sense of not being a feminist?

As well as feminism, I defined myself (at various times) as being an adherent of Afrocentrism, liberalism, atheism… a longer list of isms than my very long list of Nigerian names.

Then I got tired. Tired of keeping up with all the things I was “supposed” to be if I were to remain a part of these isms. Things that were defined for and forced on me. Things that were more about propaganda than the truth.

If I wanted to be afrocentric, I needed to believe in the idea of the “white devil” (I don’t). If I wanted to be a feminist, I needed to believe in the idea of the “man devil” (I don’t). If I wanted to be an atheist, I needed to believe in the idea of the “theist devil” (I don’t).

With isms, there’s always an “Other” and this “Other” is always to blame.