₦airaland Forum

komzy589:
These areas will suffer d most if the country happen to experience an earth quake.

Richdad50:


Anyone living on a man made island in Nigeria is on his own. Believe me. Let them be building artificial island that will sink in 5 decades.

The nature made islands in Lagos are a time bomb less the artificial islands constructed by wacky Lebanese and outcast engineers from Europe.

Richdad

djon78:
That is it
I shake my head for the gross stupidity
Misplaced priority indeed
Moreover those estates are completely over priced and a waste of money

okafor200:
Why is it only strictly for the rich?

Richdad50:


Anyone living on a man made island in Nigeria is on his own. Believe me. Let them be building artificial island that will sink in 5 decades.

The nature made islands in Lagos are a time bomb less the artificial islands constructed by wacky Lebanese and outcast engineers from Europe.

Richdad
And who are you exactly?

Richdad50:


Anyone living on a man made island in Nigeria is on his own. Believe me. Let them be building artificial island that will sink in 5 decades.

The nature made islands in Lagos are a time bomb less the artificial islands constructed by wacky Lebanese and outcast engineers from Europe.

Richdad

Unlimitk:
Davido's dad is an amazing engineer

komzy589:
These areas will suffer d most if the country happen to experience an earth quake.

cosse:
u av bin noticed......oya goan sit down

Lules:
the same thing too
I prefer Abuja to Lagos
and in this era of global warming,this reclaiming of Land is somehow,what of water surges,or God forbid something else happens

MarianaTrench:
You're not yet ready to make 'real' money!

Athena4:
Lol. The problems of Lagos pass transportation.The aggression there is enough to power Nigeria forever if it could be converted to electricity.Abuja is great, not as lively but a good place to settle if you want serenity.The Sun Sha is something else.

Rekeb:
Periwinkle Island

Periwinkle estate is a stretch of water front land beautifully located by the Babalola shoreline of the Elegushi kingdom, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Nigeria. The estate which is sandwiched between Orange Island and Lekki phase 1 offers a generous lagoon view, whistling wind, range of visiting birds and natural surroundings. Periwinkle estate which was reclaimed from the Lagos lagoon is the flagship project of Czar Project Ltd.

Source: http://www.nigeriaconstructionjournal.com/2019/04/07/is-lagos-island-going-bananas/

folake4u:
God cannot be mocked

slimdamatrix1:
I want serenity. I want to be able to have an appointment by 7am and arrive the venue by 6:50 and still be on time.

I am truly not Lagos material.

MiddleDimension:
nature has never remained static in all of its history. where you know now as beach, lake, river, etc, were probably not there say...1 or 2 million years ago.

Rekeb:
Banana Island is the home of the rich and the powerful. It is where billionaires like Mike Adenuga have their abode in Lagos. It is also where the ultra rich like Sayyu Dantata, Kola Abiola and and celebrities like Linda Ikeji call home.

Apart from being the playground of the rich, Banana Island also has the distinction of being the first man-made “island” in Nigeria. Though it is called an island, it is technically a peninsula because it is joined with Ikoyi which is the other abode of billionaires and the ultra rich. It remains one of the most expensive neighborhood in the country.

Banana Island started life as a project called Lagoon City. It was the brainchild of the Late Chief Adebayo Adeleke, a University of London trained Civil Engineer (MICE). This project was subsequently taken over by Lagos State and thereafter the Federal Government. The project was completed in its current banana shape by the Lebanese-Nigerian Chagoury Group in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing.

Fast forward to present days. There are more than ten man-made “island” projects currently at various level of completion or on the drawing board. This includes names like Orange Island, Periwinkle Island, Diamond Island, OSTIA Island etc with the father of them all, the Eko Atlantic. With these many Island and reclamation development within a short period of time, can it be said that Lagos Island is “going bananas”?

Even though one can argue that much of the affluent parts of Lagos Island like Lekki Phase 1, VGC, Northern Foreshore, Nicon Estate are also man-made because they rose from swamps that were sandfilled. We will however limit our discussions to the ones that are obviously man-made.

Is this the best we can get in urban development innovations? With the high price tags of land in these developments, what is the plan for the less affluent? As these are only accessible to the very rich, do these development leave space for the common-man to enjoy the beautiful sceneries of the lagoon fronts? All year round good weather and beautiful lagoon waterfronts are potential tourism money spinner. But what do we have in Lagos? We see that private developments have largely taken over these waterfronts. Essentially, the commonwealth in form of water sceneries are being privatized, so only the affluent and powerful can enjoy them in their privacy. What is the end-game for these developments?

Source:http://www.nigeriaconstructionjournal.com/2019/04/07/is-lagos-island-going-bananas/

MiddleDimension:
even in Abuja, people still come late for appointment.

have you moved from Gwaggwalada to Giri in recent times, during the day? it is becoming more like Lagos!

the mistake the FG made in Lagos, i.e concentrating things on the island so that every morning everyone will be headed the island way, is what exactly they are making in Abuja.

folake4u:
I beg to differ please. There are some natural sites STILL static from time memorial and hasn't been tampered by man.
I know the reason I said God cannot be mocked. Though I'm not a lagosian but the Lagos Island places eg. Lekki, VI etc where houses are built now on artificial sands and the rest, please pray tell me, the water running in their homes, are they drinkable? .
Or is Lekki no longer waterlogged despite being a high brow area?.

The truth is you can NEVER cheat nature .

Richdad50:


Anyone living on a man made island in Nigeria is on his own. Believe me. Let them be building artificial island that will sink in 5 decades.

The nature made islands in Lagos are a time bomb less the artificial islands constructed by wacky Lebanese and outcast engineers from Europe.

Richdad

folake4u:
I beg to differ please. There are some natural sites STILL static from time memorial and hasn't been tampered by man.
I know the reason I said God cannot be mocked. Though I'm not a lagosian but the Lagos Island places eg. Lekki, VI etc where houses are built now on artificial sands and the rest, please pray tell me, the water running in their homes, are they drinkable? .
Or is Lekki no longer waterlogged despite being a high brow area?.

The truth is you can NEVER cheat nature .

slimdamatrix1:
I understand what you're saying but I live in maitama. Wuse 2 and maitama is the centre of Abuja. So...

MarianaTrench:
You're not yet ready to make 'real' money!

MiddleDimension:
people who live in VI and have to work in Ikoyi; or those who like Linda who works in Lekki phase 1, can get to her office in relatively short time. so...

slimdamatrix1:
Well, true. Still, I'm not Lagos material.

naturefellow:
sounds so bitter