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Lagos Flooding: Eko Atlantic City Takes The Blame
Jul 9, 2017 Commentaries
Eko Atlantic City
The incessant flooding on the Lagos Island has gotten worse each year and this has been attributed to the Eko Atlantic City project. A project that is being developed by Lebanese businessman Gilbert Chagoury, a bonafide hustler who made his fortune during the Abacha era. The project was flagged off during the Fashola administration and has the blessing of Bola Tinubu, who is allegedly a silent partner in the project.

According to Mimi Onuoha, a Brooklyn based artist and researcher, the flaw in the construction of the Eko Atlantic City is responsible for the worsening flooding in Lagos city. A flood that just this rainy season has caused several casualties and billions of Naira in damages to property and infrastructure in the State.
In her report for Quartz, Mimi writes:
Eko Atlantic is the name of a grandiose project to create a new economic capital for Africa—notably, right next to the current economic capital for Africa. The development includes everything from sky-scrapers to luxury apartments, a new financial district, a private power-grid, and a shopping boulevard in the image of New York’s Fifth Avenue. It’s the brainchild of the Chagoury brothers, two Nigerian-born billionaires of Lebanese descent who own South Energyx Nigeria Ltd, a real estate development company created to build out Eko Atlantic.

Eko Atlantic is meant to be an antidote to Lagos’s deepest recession in 30 years. The city is meant to bring 250,000 new jobs and address a housing shortage brought on by a surging population. This, and the fact that it’s privately-funded, have lent it the support of the state and federal governments. It’s being sold to investors as “a valuable foothold in Africa” one of the world’s last emerging growth markets.
But what makes Eko Atlantic’s development especially noteworthy is its location. The planned city borders Lagos directly. Eko Atlantic was built by dredging up and filling in 10 kilometers (about 6.2 miles) worth of land. Before the project began in 2009, the peninsula was virtually non-existent.
The result is that Eko Atlantic has the appearance of being an island created out of thin air. Satellite imagery highlights just how dramatic an effect the construction — which is far from finished — has had on Lagos’ coast.

Satellite imagery courtesy of DigitalGlobe
The government of Lagos has programs in place to address coastal erosion because Lagos’ location leaves it deeply susceptible to rising sea levels and catastrophic storm surges. In 2012, a storm surge in the exact area of Eko Atlantic’s construction killed 16 people.
In the aftermath of the tragedy (which some blamed on disturbances caused by Eko Atlantic’s building) the developers of the project highlighted the fabrication of “The Great Wall of Lagos,” a sea wall that wraps around the city and protects it from the effects of the surrounding Atlantic.

But according to some climate scientists, the same wall that will protect Eko Atlantic could worsen the situation for neighboring areas not protected by it, which includes much of Lagos. Dr. Alan Blumberg, renowned for his research and the effects of climate change on water structures, highlighted the challenges in a phone call.
“What happens when you build a wall is that the approaching storm surge will come up to the wall, and it will move to the left or right of the wall, searching for a weakness or a low spot. If there are two islands close to each other, it may go to the island next door instead.”

Construction of Eko Atlantic’s Great Wall
David Frame, Managing Director of South Energyx Ltd, said in a statement to Quartz, that the sea wall is designed and tested to handle the worst storms in hundreds/thousand years; “The Great Wall of Lagos will ensure that everyone living and working within the 10 square kilometres (6.2 miles) of reclaimed land for Eko Atlantic and the population of Victoria Island are protected from the sea.”
For Lagos, a city composed of a series of islands, if this is not the case, the situation Blumberg describes could be disastrous. Lagos’ surrounding areas are not only unprotected by the wall, but are lower in sea level than Eko Atlantic. It’s a combination that leaves the old city of Lagos and its hundreds of years of history startlingly vulnerable.

If the critics are correct, Eko Atlantic might provide parts of Lagos with yet another link to the sea, one rooted in potential danger and unknowable risk. To the sea parts of the city may return.

Source or did you write it from thin air

poshestmina:
True...Nigerians,we are fond of waiting for government to do everything (like they even care about us) .If each estate can contribute say 100k ,there will be more than enough money to do a good drainage system, take Osapa London /Agungi/Ajiran axis for example ,there are upto 30 estates (a bit less or more) but no we"d rather wait for Ambode or Buhari to come fix it..


All they know is to drive latest Gwagon, Range Rover, Ferrari e t c. and be dragging road with crocodile

Just pack your car this season and buy rainboots and pray crocodile doesn't bite off ur legs

So y pay tax

If u see the way she spends on the boyfriend.

Have the boko haram sponsors been fingered yet or is the finger of God still dealing them mysterious ailments?

doctimonyeka:
Donald Lai Mohammed Trump matter don taya me......




I see him being impeached soon...

Wont happen. Americas silent majority support him. They dont want the terrorists in their country and trumo is helping keep them out whilst london and europe embraces them

247frolicboss:
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed looks to have lost his edge against a worthy opponent after he appeared on the latest episode of the Osasu Show where he assessed the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration at Two.


The Minister who seemed unprepared for the heavy lifting which came at him during the interview had earlier been questioned on his take regarding Nigerians who have accused him of telling ‘little white lies’ to which he replied that this was mainly because he was the face of the opposition party for nearly a decade.


He added that the second reason why Nigerians have accused him of telling lies to favour the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is because quite a big section of the internet is yet to forgive him for the role he played in ousting PDP from office.


He said: “I think quite a big section of the internet is yet to forgive me for the role I played in the coming of this government. Many of them hold me personally responsible for the defeat of the PDP.”


Lai Mohammed added that “It was Nigerians who wanted a new government,” and he helped.

The Information Minister further dared anyone to come out with facts proving he had indeed lied to Nigerians at any point to favour the Buhari-led administration.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4eEWxKRtoY




http://www.newshelmng.com/2017/06/video-no-one-can-point-to-single-lie.html

cc lalasticlala mynd44

I have a good mind to report your blog to google. Stop stealing others intellectual property hook, line and sinker.

I am sure the people at herald work hard to produce their own content. U can as well do same

This has already been posted

Mynd44 take note

Lalasticlala

Duplicate post

Afonjashapmouth:
Before nko, when you award road construction to your medical doc friend, what does he care building a proper channel for excess downpour.

Fashola (san) and dr. Olowolafe

U know them too?

Crooks. Website go be 1 billion

ZombieTERROR:
Even the zombies are not with Lai on this one....

Somebody borrow me that idi Amin laughing meme

No we need d one of idi amin pleading blood of Jesus

Found link to full video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4eEWxKRtoY

Lalasticlala leave all those jollof rice dammy stories.

This 1 na for the front page

Blacks sha

She thought its her housegirl in lekki

Wema fraud

micfoley:
Why didn't they inscribe the name na?

So as not to further offend the cow

I believe the original story

Bolanle is such a damn diva

0b111:
What do you want to hear? That fuel is 20Naira/liter? It's economics, Miracles dont happen but gradually.

This re development on the right course.

He wants to hear news bordering on the mortality of the dullard in chief

Buhari was dead on arrival

Small boy still dey do this one

But aunties have no qualms opening their yansh for him

How many naija babes can pole dance

Dem flexible?

So many nigerians want bubu to die

Its a shame

Used tampon na wa o

Ffk bad mouth no be here

His bad mouth is legendary

Now sanusi is enemy of the abokis

What a karma

The same way nairaland takes stories from sites and comments from twitter and pastes here and nothing happens, nothing will happen

My friend get a job if u want to be rich

This is a public forum

sarrki:
Nnamdi should also be probed

Why is he walking free

Same reason tinubu and buhari r free

This midget that dlandered jesus christ

He will forever be a failure

He has signed over the oil blocs to his in laws

Thus the 'meeting' with ag and md nnpc few days ago

AndyCole16:
Ohhhh science right? Charles Darwin theories. Do you really take scientist result as the last authority or they themselves are subjected mistake subsequently change or review their earlier position.
Charles Darwin postulated we are from animals, recent studies countless number of times have prove him wrong.
Case study 2: If polygamous is found in human gene, who puts it there? If your answer is God, why does God give ONLY one wife to Adam?

Bro pls swerve

Leave darwin out of it and google.com

And the old testament is awash with stories of men with more than 1 wife

AndyCole16:
Hi guy, can you explain your proof that "Men are polygamous in nature". I really need to know.
Thanks

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/25/the-evidence-of-polygamy-is-in-our-genes/


https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/darwin-eternity/201108/are-people-naturally-polygamous-0

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200802/the-paradox-polygamy-ii-why-most-women-benefit-polygamy


Google.com

radiokilla:
Don't generalise. There are men that don't cheat. Cheating is quite stressful.

Honestly when even aspiring side chics have this entitlement mentality

Instead of seeing themselves as a piece of arse, now they fancy themselves usurping the position of the main 1

Lunatics

Bumbae1:
Ok lets just say its a married woman doing this . Would people hear its in our nature
So the question is why get married ? Honestly seen guys in their late 40 saying not ready to marry at least they are honest and not trying to damage one woman or break her heart . There is nothing wrong with him having 20 girlfriends if he feel like but marriage meant to a union of Love ..starting a Family .. legacy


So would you cheat too just because its in your gene ?

I would cheat because i wont get a divorce and i like women. My wife cannot give me everything i want sexually from a woman. Certain things i like , i may not even want to do with my wife because i respect her and cant see her in that position pun intended

Ita like jayz married to beyonce but he still meeds something more. Its in our nature. We marry our prize and we go outside and offer a price for what we want. Temporary pleasures

Bumbae1:
Ok lets just say its a married woman doing this . Would people hear its in our nature
So the question is why get married ? Honestly seen guys in their late 40 saying not ready to marry at least they are honest and not trying to damage one woman or break her heart . There is nothing wrong with him having 20 girlfriends if he feel like but marriage meant to a union of Love ..starting a Family .. legacy


So would you cheat too just because its in your gene ?

Actually if women did it men wouldnt have to get married and less headache for all and sundry

You can have a legacy and have a few side chicks on the side

Ask dangote, otedola, amaechi (legacy for being a dumbass), jay z etc

There is nothing wrong with sampling pooty tang outside because its a sample

Do u really think that man can be satisfied with one woman for decades?
Pls be real thats like asking a woman to wear one shoe for the rest of her life

Can u do it?

Nellychinma20:
sad truth
I don't believe a faithful man still exist
how I wish peopLe know how rampant this scourge is

Those faithful men are usually the broke type