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POST ALL NEWS UPDATES ABOUT EKO ATLANTIC CITY
 
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Expanding Lagos Into the Atlantic
Written by Demola Abimboye

By 2016, Lagos will get a new city to be built on nine million square metres of reclaimed land about 2.4 kilometres into the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island

It promises to be Nigeria’s most ambitious city on reclaimed land and one of Africa’s biggest marine engineering projects. Between now and 2016, about nine million square metres of land would be reclaimed 2.4 kilometres south of Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, into the Atlantic Ocean. The planned city is one and a half times the size of current Victoria Island. When completed, the new island would be called Eko Atlantic City. It is estimated to accommodate 250,000 residents and 150,000 commuters.

Already, 1.3 million square metres of prime land has been reclaimed. This has convinced many Nigerians of the viability of the project. Thus, many wealthy individuals and corporate bodies have bought plots of land ahead of completion schedule. The ambitious project is being undertaken by South Energyx Nigeria Limited, SENL, a subsidiary of the Chaghoury Group, which has been highly active in Nigeria for over 30 years. The group has handled many major construction and engineering works. SENL and the development of Eko Atlantic project were recognised by the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009 as committed to combating the threat of flooding to Victoria Island from rising sea levels.

For the success of Eko Atlantic City project, SENL boasts of partnership with some of the world’s experts in marine engineering, land reclamation and city design as well as strong financial backing. Royal Haskoning, a firm of Dutch architects and engineers, is involved while Dredging International, a Belgian company, is shouldering the massive landfill operation.

Four banks - three local and one international - are providing financial support for the entirely private sector project. These are First Bank PLC, Guaranty Trust Bank PLC, First City Monument Bank PLC and BNP Paribas Fortis of France. Diya, Fatimilehin & Co, a firm of estate surveyors and valuers, is marketing the gigantic prime real estate business.

Marc Chaghouri of SENL told Newswatch that the concept is to create an international standard city. The city will cover seven districts: Ocean Front, Harbour Lights, Business District, Eko Drive, Marina, Avenues and Downtown.

The business district will be spread across 1.3 million square metres dedicated to providing West Africa with a world class commercial hub. At the heart of this district will be the Eko Atlantic financial centre, “a key to success and prosperity.” The centre’s imposing towers will house corporate headquarters-banks, insurance companies, a room for stock exchange and hotels. “It will open a new vista for Nigeria and Africa,” Chaghouri said, adding: “The city will provide world class property in a world class environment where people can live and work in harmony.”

The city’s planners have incorporated round the clock independent power generation, central water supply and sewage disposal systems into the scheme. With a global certificate of occupancy already given by the Lagos State government, the developers have created a specialised planning unit to streamline an approval process and ensure quality of construction and integrity of each development.

There will be a light rail system with 60 stops throughout the city and canals for light ferry services. And aside a network of roads to ensure free traffic flow, every building must have basement parking spaces for its occupants and visitors. “Eko Atlantic City will have zero tolerance for street parking,” Chaghouri said.

To protect the new city against ocean surge, SENL is building a sea barrier which it fondly refers to as the Great Wall of Lagos. The 6.5 kilometre long wall was designed by Royal Haskoning and tested in Denmark by the world renowned Danish Hydraulic Institute, DHI. Chaghouri said the result proved that “it can withstand the worst storm imaginable in a thousand years.” The Great Wall is already one kilometre long when Newswatch visited last week.

Chaghouri said further that in building the wall, his company took cognisance of the chronic erosion of the Bar Beach which reached an unbearable peak in 2005 with severe threat of flooding. To check further erosion, a shoreline protection wall running along the entire length of the beach was built. Yet the ocean remained a threat to Victoria Island. It was against this backdrop that the idea of Eko Atlantic City emerged principally to restore the shoreline to where it was 100 years ago and build a world class city on reclaimed land.

Consequently, the Bola Tinubu administration granted SENL the concession to reclaim and develop land for the city in 2006. Since then, the company has recorded a huge success. Kolawole Diya of Diya, Fatimilehin & Co, marketing consultants to SENL on the prime real estate, said more that 1.3 million square metres of land is already visible and up for sale at between $825 and $1,600 per square metre.

He said it was denominated in dollar to protect buyers against fluctuations in the Naira exchange rate. He explained that since the rate is not static but changes regularly at the auctions by the Central Bank of Nigeria, buyers would be adequately protected against the vagaries in the financial supermarkets should the local currency depreciate sharply.

“We are proud of our currency but property transactions in commercial nerve centres of the world are being denominated in dollars. And Nigerian professionals have keyed in, more so, as thousands of foreigners and foreign companies are expected to own properties in Eko Atlantic City, Nigeria’s new gateway into Africa in the 21st century,” he said.

Victoria Island was originally surrounded by water – Atlantic Ocean in the south, the mouth of the Lagos Lagoon to the west, the five Cowrie Creek to the north and swamps on the east. The colonial government filled the eastern swamps to reduce mosquito breeding areas. This created a land bridge between the island and Lekki peninsula, thus ending its existence as a true island.

After independence, successive state governments expanded this development, culminating in the construction of a high way linking Victoria Island to Epe. VI, as it is popularly called, was initially intended for suburban residential development but became an attractive location for financial institutions and other businesses in the 1970s. The rapid expansion seriously outstretched limited amenities and resources. The developers of the new city hope to have independently reliable infrastructure to avoid the mistakes of the past without the government investing its scarce funds in it.
http://www.newswatchngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2422&Itemid=1
 
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New York is known for its taxis...london for its buses...and lagos might be known for its light rail. according to the article Eko Atlantic city alone will have 60 light rail stations. also LAMATA is going to build another 7 lines of light rail with each having 25+ stations, separate from the Eko Atlantic rails.
 
#6 ·
Then what do we post in the Eko Atlantic City II thread?

but great update man. :applause:
 
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I saw on CNN international i-list the Eko Atlantic City being among one of the sponsors. It's good to know that the project is a reality. After seeing that I have the guarantee this project will really be finished. My only advice for the govt. and the private investors involved is to expedite action on constructing this project according to plan.
 
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A city from the sea: Gradually, Lagos builds fresh metropolis from the Atlantic
By TESSY IGOMU

Wednesday, October 13, 2010




With a steady force, whitish sand thrusts forth from the bottom of the ocean through giant underwater pipes. The sand is then ferried to the other side of the ocean and gradually dumped in the sea. As the sand stretches far into the other side of the Atlantic Ocean by the Lagos Bar Beach, the reality of the Eko Atlantic City project becomes more glaring.

Eko Atlantic City Project is a private sector funded development conceived and facilitated by the Lagos State government. Funding for the project, Daily Sun learnt is sourced through private equity and loans from financial institutions like First Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, First City Monument Bank Plc and BNP Paribas Fortis of France.

Described as the most ambitious project in Africa, it is expected to emerge over eight square kilometres of reclaimed land along the Bar Beach, Victoria Island. Already, 1.3 million square metres of prime land has been reclaimed. The planned city is one and a half times the size of current Victoria Island and is expected to set a new standard of living and working in West Africa.

Aside expectations that it would restore lost coastline that eroded since 1905 as well as provide permanent solution to the menace of ocean surge through a sea wall under construction, the city is expected to provide residential accommodation for 250,000 people and employment for another 50,000.

For years, persistent ocean surge has made life in the vicinity of the Bar Beach very unpalatable. Most houses in the area have been abandoned, while some are showing serious signs of disintegration. The project is, however, expected to raise the value of structures in the area and protect them from the menacing effect of ocean surge.

While many people have described it as a white elephant project that might not be attainable, some people have bought into the idea by purchasing some plots for development.

According to Daily Sun findings, the project will on completion have a round-the-clock independent power generation, water supply, fire service, security, entertainment centres, sewage disposal and maintenance systems. There would be a public light railway system, which will have 60 stops throughout the city and a network of internal roads. There would also be a network of fibre optic cables that will connect state of the art telecommunications as well as an internal citywide waterway.

While unveiling the project, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola said he anticipates enormous social and economic benefits after the completion of the project.

He explained further that the concept is to provide needed amenities that will enhance tourism attraction and relaxation opportunities.

Fashola believes that the emergence of the city is expected to relieve pressure on the increasing population of the state and further confirm Lagos as the fastest growing mega city in the world.

“Investment in homes, businesses and tourism will flourish in the safe, clean and sustainable environment,” he said.

According to Mr. David Frame, Managing Director of South Energy X Limited, the contractor, the tourism appeal of the Bar Beach would be restored and the defences would be extended into the open sea, a mile and half offshore for reclamation.

He disclosed that the western boundary of the development would stretch from the existing mole constructed between 1905 and 1908, to protect the entrance to the Lagos Harbour as well as incorporate a large portion of the Marina with access to the sea.

The Ahmadu Bello Way, which is on the northern boundary of the project, he explained, would be widened to an eight-lane highway to be known as 'Coastal Road'.

“Eko Atlantic is a dynamic new city that will be built on reclaimed land and aims to provide world-class property with modern and independently reliable infrastructure to an area in high demand. It's an environmentally conscious development with compliance with international standards for city development,” he stated.

Frame noted that the Eko Atlantic footprint would be similar to that of the Manhattan in New York City, US, explaining that the giant sea wall is a large-scale marine work and engineering masterpiece designed to meet the highest international specifications and to withstand the worst imaginable Atlantic storm.

“The sea wall will act as a shield for the whole of Lagos. It is seven kilometres long and 60 metres wide at base level where the force of the ocean is greatest. It towers nine metres above the sea level and will be a stunning landmark in the new city. This powerful sea defence will stretch 6.5 kilometres. The design of the city will raise the standard of infrastructure in Lagos to a sophisticated level through its finely-structured urban plan that will create a balanced, environmentally friendly and efficient blueprint for a comfortable living. The city will be a reflection of our responsibility to the environment. It will be sustainable, clean and energy efficient with minimal carbon emissions,” Frame said.

He urged the public, especially real estate developers as well as multinationals and corporate organisations to start investing in the project.

The possibility of negative environmental impacts was dispelled by the Sales Manager of South Energyx Nigeria Limited, Marc Chaghouri, who disclosed that all scientific calculations and investigations have already been concluded.

“Extensive tests of the Eko Atlantic sea defence system were conducted in Denmark at the Danish Hydraulic Institute. Scale models of a section of the seven kilometres sea wall to protect the city withstood the worst storm Lagos could expect to face in 100 years.

Under the scheme, each of the proposed seven districts of the city would display its own unique characteristics. Infrastructure design will be standardized across the city by a specialized planning unit which would streamline approval process to ensure the quality of construction and the integrity of each development,” he said.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/citysun/2010/oct/13/citysun-13-10-2010-001.htm
 
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^^land reclamation should be 100% completed by 2015-16....but construction of buildings should start commencing by next year 2011... the whole eko atlantic will be 100% functional by 2030...this is a HUGE project... its being built in phases so as one phase is functional another phase will be under construction.
 
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yeah, i just saw it on youtube. 6 years for the dredging. Its 4 miles by 1.5 miles, its hard for me to picture just exactly how big that it is.

I dont get it, how can they can start construction before that?

And is there a masterplan or any other big projects for the rest of Lagos? What I wouldnt want to happen is the rest of Lagos to get neglected.

The governor of Lagos should go to Sao Paulo and see how a mega-city should NOT develop like. I think Sao Paulo can teach many African mega-cities a lesson in this respect. The city grew so fast and disorganised.
 
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In Nigeria, a new Manhattan grows in the sand

Lagos - Nigeria has decided to show the world that her confidence is growing every day. On the coast of Lagos, Nigeria slowly builds a new city built on an artificial embankment. Home user will find more than 250 thousand people. The city on the sand has the ambition to become a center of trade, technologies and meet the rich people of Nigeria and international companies. The current size of Victoria Island city doubles.

The place where the town created into which is inserted many Nigerians hope navezeny were already tens of thousands of cubic meters of sand and water extracted from the ocean floor. Heavy machinery relentlessly reinforces the terrain and makes its way to the sea area. "We have created a sand mound on the desktop million and four hundred thousand square meters, a total of nine million square meters," said the director of Energex South Nigeria, David Frame.

Climate change does not jeopardize the city

Undaunted, the developers or climate change. Eko Atlantic City, said all the weather the disaster. "In tests we set the criteria so that the city endured the worst storms in the foreseeable perspective hundred years. We tested it to conditions in the next two hundred years, even for a millennium and the model remained intact," says Frame.

Eko Atlantic City project does not deny a role model in Manhattan. Started two years ago and wants to become a new gateway to Africa. It is funded by some Nigerian banks and the French BNP Paribas. To be finished in 2016.
Commercial Manager of South Energex Nigeria Valentina Halimová: "We sold 13 percent of the land. When you look at the schedule, you see flags that indicate the parcel sold."
Video in the link :)

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.ct24.cz/svet/106475-v-nigerii-roste-novy-manhattan-na-pisku/video/1/
 
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Scramble as Eko Atlantic City emerges from the sea




• An impression of the Eko Atlantic City’s Financial Centre on completion (top), land reclamation in progress (bottom left) and aerial view of the project so far (bottom right).

By Michael Simire Property & Environment Editor



Better days are apparently underway for residents of Lagos, the nation’s economic nerve centre, where a new urban enclave is emerging from the depths of the seas.
Fashioned in a concept akin to those of “The World” and “The Palms” in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that are being built on reclaimed land, the multi-billion-dollar “Eko Atlantic City” looks set to transform the fortunes as well as skyline of the crowded Nigerian urban destination.
Even though land reclamation and recovery is only about 20 percent completed, 11 percent of the total land area has reportedly been snapped up by investors. Similarly, banks and oil & gas concerns are said to be eyeing the novel enclave as a new and befitting site for their corporate head offices.
Sand-filling for the entire project is expected to be completed by 2016, even though over 1.3 million square meters of land is already visible and is up for grabs. The city will become home to 250,000 residents and plied by 150,000 commuters.
The project is located close to Victoria Island (VI), which was initially intended as a suburban housing development but became attractive to financial institutions and other businesses, a development that exerted pressure on its limited amenities. Similarly, the erosion of the sea front at Bar Beach had given a cause for concern.
Limited successes recorded by a shoreline protection plan for VI in part informed the need for the Eko Atlantic City project, which is expected to throw the much-needed lifeline to Victoria Island by restoring the embattled shoreline to where it was some 100 years ago and build a world-class city on reclaimed land.
But the much-vaunted initiative may have unwittingly sounded the death knell for VI, which observers predict would no longer be the number one business destination choice and hence experience a considerable drop in property values.
Eko Atlantic City is being built on nine million square meters of reclaimed land and aims to provide modern infrastructure. It will be split into seven districts; including a Central Business District (CBD) that will stand on 1.3 million square meters of land. The seven districts are: Ocean Front, Harbour Lights, CBD, Eko Drive, Marina, Avenues and Downtown.
A sea defense system, christened “The Great Wall of Lagos,” is designed to withstand extreme storms over a 100-year cycle. It stretches 6.5 kilometres and is being built a mile and a half off-shore. Already, the wall is over a kilometre long. It was designed by Dutch specialists Royal Haskoning and tested in Denmark by the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI).
Marc Chaghouri of South Energyx Nigeria Limited, who are project developers, said, “The city will feature an independent power generation and water supply, sewage disposal and maintenance systems, security, a public light railway system (which will have 60 stops throughout the city), and a network of internal roads designed to ensure free flowing traffic. Eko Atlantic city will have zero tolerance for street parking. A network of fibre optic cables will connect state-of-the art telecommunications and an internal city-wide waterway will be linked to three marinas.”
The developers are creating a specialised planning unit to streamline an approval process and to ensure the quality of construction and the integrity of each development.
SENL, a firm of developers and city planners, and a member of the Chaghouri Group, is developing the project, which will feature an impressive skyscape of towers that make up the Eko Atlantic Financial Centre, forming the first set of buildings to rise from the newly reclaimed land.
The Financial Centre will house corporate headquarters, banks, insurance companies, oil and gas sector operatives, stock exchange, convention centre, auditoriums and hotels
SENL was granted the concession to reclaim and develop the land for Eko Atlantic City by the Lagos State Government in what was described as an entirely private sector-funded scheme that First Bank, FCMB, GT Bank and BNP Paribas Fortis are jointly bankrolling.
Dutch firm of consultants, architects and engineers, Royal Haskoning, is partnering with SENL, while the Belgian company, Dredging International, is handling the landfill operation. SENL and the development of Eko Atlantic were recognised by the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009 as committed to combating the threat of flooding to Victoria Island in Lagos from rising sea levels through the negative effects of climate change.
 
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what is in that video, i've been trying to get it to work since yesterday

any chance you can upload it to youtube.
 
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The future city on the edge



Site of Eko Atlantic City Photo: ALLWELL OKPI

By Allwell Okpi

Intermittently, the waves of the Atlantic Ocean hits the Bar Beach, often quite violently, moving things on its path, including people visiting the beach, some of whom have drowned in it. Nevertheless, since 2001, holiday after holiday, Chiagozie Emenike, like many other fun-seekers, goes to Lagos' most popular beach to play.

But that will not continue for long.

About a kilometre into the sea, tons of sand is being pumped from the sea bed to fill the about eight-metre deep reclamation area bounded by already constructed moles, to form the platform on which a luxurious city, Eko Atlantic City, will rise.

As the vessels of China Communications Construction Group, renowned for marine dredging and landfill operations, pump 80,000 tons of sand daily to meet the 140 million tons target in the next four years, the developers, South Energyx, are busy selling plots of land off the design prepared by consultants, architects, and engineers in the Netherlands. At the same time, environmentalists are raising concerns over the sustainability of the city in the face of sea level rise resulting from the melting of the polar ice caps, induced by global warming.

A city in danger

According to Larry Awosika, head of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research, NIOMR, the city, which is proposed to be nine square kilometres, containing both residential and commercial districts, will be at risk, not only due to the gradual rising of the Atlantic Ocean, but also the strong waves that will be hitting the city.

"The littoral drift, the movement of sediments down drift in the near shore zone (from the Ghanaian coastal area down to Nigeria), is reducing because a lot of the sediments are now being trapped due to the building of ports at Benin Republic and Togo. So, whatever little sediment that is getting here are now being trapped.

"And from Lagos all the way to Benin River, there is no source of sediments. You are now taking the little sediments that have been deposited there for millions of years. What's going to happen? You are destabilising the ecosystem and the dynamics of the near shore zone," he said.

This, Mr. Awosika said, will result in stronger wave activity on the coast, putting the city and properties along the coastline at risk.

"If there were natural sediments that were coming to replenish the area, it would have been a different thing. Our advice has been, protect the beach and go and develop the kind of city you want somewhere else," he said.

Nothing to worry about

However, contrary to the fear raised by environments, the Lagos State government has listed the Eko Atlantic City as one of its major efforts towards arresting the impact of climate change.

The state commissioner for environment, Muiz Banire, said the development of the city is a cost-effective way of stopping coastal erosion, considering that government is spending money on the project, which is being handled by a private developer.

"What we have been doing over the years along the coastline to fight coastal erosion is to pump sand, and when you come back, you see that sea has taken the place back, and government was spending a lot of money to do that. So we arrived on a decision to reclaim the land and restore the shoreline to where it was about 100 years ago and develop this city, the Eko Atlantic City, as a permanent solution to the coast erosion," he said.

According to the state commissioner for water front infrastructure, Adesegun Oniru, there is no need to fear because a lot of tests, including environmental impact assessment, were conducted before the start of the project; and the sea wall (nine metres above water level), which will be built to protect the city, withstood the worst storm Lagos could expect to face in 100 years under simulated conditions.

While arguments continue, interested buyers have continued to visit the sales office of the project for inquiries and possible purchase of plots of land at the cost of $1,000 for one square-metre, which is the cheapest.

From the developer's projections, within the next decade, the seven districts of the city will begin to rise in the similitude of the skyscraper district of Manhattan Island in New York City. The city is projected to be home to about 250,000 people and over 150,000 are expected to commute in and out of the city daily.

The districts include the Ocean Front, which will be the tourist section; the Financial District, which will be mainly commercial; and the Downtown, which will be mainly residential.

If developed according to design, the Eko Atlantic City will be one of the most expensive real estates in Africa, described as "a major financial hub and gateway to Africa."

But for Mr. Emenike, it will be a lost fun spot.

"When they build the city, people like me cannot be coming here again to play. The place will become a playground for the rich people. In fact, what they are turning this Lagos into, very soon there will be no place for poor people," he said.
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Power of Atlantic Ocean has been tamed, developer assures Nigeria

Samuel Ogidan, Abuja

A management official of South Energy Nigeria Limited, Ronald Chagoury, has assured resident of Lagos state and environ that the power and possible violence of the Atlantic Ocean is being tamed by a new offshore wall.

He said this to contain the fears expressed by some Nigerians over possible upsurge of the ocean in the nearest future, thereby causing untold flooding disaster on the resident of Lagos State and its environs. Speaking on behalf of the management of the multi-billion naira Eko Atlantic, Chagoury allayed the fears and agitations of some concerned residents of Lagos and the general public, who may wish to live and work at the Eko Atlantic city over possible effects of the reclamation of the land currently ongoing on the Lagos bar beach.

Reclamation work has begun on the ocean by South Energy Nigeria Limited to retrieve nine million square meters of land from sea, to provide world class development in West Africa.

While giving the assurance, during the tour of the site and inspection of some federal government ongoing road projects in the South West by the Minister of Works, Sanusi Dagassh, Chagoury said a new sea wall would safely deflect the threat of the flooding from an unpredictable ocean.

He assured residents that the wall “will protect Lagos and the new city of Eko Atlantic. The great wall of Lagos is being built more than a mile off the coastline of Victoria Island and will act as a barrier between Eko Atlantic city and the power of the sea. The wall will be seven kilometers long”.
Chagoury said that a precise scale modeling tests in Europe had demonstrated beyond all doubt that the wall would withstand the worst Atlantic storm that could be expected in over a hundred years.

He noted that the high-rise building of the business district, the new finance and business hub for West Africa, will tower over Eko Atlantic and Lagos.

His words: “This phase one district development will lie in the most accessible spot in the Eko Atlantic city, next to the coastal highway and adjacent to the two existing business centers in Lagos City and Victoria Island.”

Describing the outlook of the city on completion, Chagoury said the Eko Atlantic city would have seven urban district, each with their own individual character and architecture, all planned to blend together with office space, and workspace, homes and communities and leisure and cultural facilities.
The nine million square meters of land that is being recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, according to him, would be a prime area for development, set within the ambitious urban design of a modern environmentally aware city.

He said that Eko Atlantic was the result of a joint strategic partnership, between private investment and Lagos, adding: “It is strongly supported by the Federal Government of Nigeria.”

The management official pointed out that interest in the project has intensified, since the appearance of Eko Atlantic at the Clinton Global Initiative in the autumn of 2009.

The minister of Works, Sanusi Daggash, however assured that the multi-billion dollar project has already been seen getting to fruition all because of the implementation of the federal government’s Public Private Partnership initiative.

Daggash expressed delight on the work that is ongoing at the site, stressing that the PPP policy was strategically designed by federal government to drive projects such as this to successful completion.
He disclosed that federal government has no financial commitments on the project, “but yet it is going well as expected”.
http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/...assures-nigeria-&catid=72:property&Itemid=710
 
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February 15, 2011 Update courtesy of British High Commision, Abuja



 
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Eko Atlantic City Project has expanded Nigeria’s territory – Fashola
NewsMar 17, 2011

Lagos – Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says the reclaiming of 2.4 million cubic metres of land from the Atlantic Ocean for the Eko Atlantic City Project has expanded Nigeria’s territory.
Fashola said this on Wednesday while inspecting the project being executed by the South Energy of Holland in association with some others firms.
`We are reclaiming and restoring the geographical territory of Lagos State and by extension that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
`We are reclaiming the land lost to the Atlantic Ocean by uncontrollable erosions that we have now brought under control,’’ the governor said.
He commended the contractor for its commitment.
`The Commissioner for Water Front Infrastructure, Mr Adesegun Oniru, has just informed me that within the next 24 months, Lagosians will begin to see the emergence of one of the apartment blocks, a 24-storey building emerging from where we stand today, meaning that the future has started.
`By this singular act, the contractor has indeed put its money, time, experience and integrity into the project so as to deliver it as promised, starting with the construction of the 1.5km ocean seashore,’’ he said.
Fashola noted that in 2007, sea waves of about 70 metres high buffeted the coastline, but that shorelines constructed by the contractor protected Victoria Island and Ikoyi from being flushed.
He said that the shorelines would also protect the Eko Atlantic City when completed.
`It will be a new city on the coast, a city that will run and operate like any other city in the world with 24 hours electricity, new business centres, housing and efficient transport facilities.
`This is the future that Lagos promises, a future that is within a short distance,’’ he said.
Oniru said that areas reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean were lost to the ocean from 1905.
The commissioner said that with the reclamation, Lagos could now account for 180km of the 853km stretch of Nigeria’s coastal area.
`The firm ground we are all standing on today was part of the Atlantic Ocean which was between 12 metres and 15 metres deep before the contractors reclaimed it,’’ he said.
He listed facilities that would be in the city to include network of roads and surface water bridges.
`There will also be a dedicated electric power generation with underground distribution network of service ducks to provide information technology services,’’ he added. ( NAN
 
#26 ·
We don't get devastating earthquakes in Nigeria.

We only get occasional tremors.

Rising sea levels is an issue, but a tsunami is not really plausible. The African and South America plates are diverging. So the only issue Eko atlantic has to contend with is rising sea levels, flooding and this has already been factored in from day 1.
 
#29 ·
Damn this project is HUGE!!!...I wont be surprised if this project is going to make the original investors into billionaires....

@ xJamaax Nigeria doesn't get any major natural disasters...Just your common flood and erosion...the closest thing Nigeria has to a natural disaster is our leaders.:|
 
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Fashola unveils reclaimed land in Eko Atlantic City
Our Reporter 18/03/2011 00:18:00


Fashola

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has unveiled two million, four hundred square meters of reclaimed land in Eko Atlantic City.

Speaking at the ceremony on Wednesday, Fashola said the new city would have 24 hours electricity; a 24-storey business centre; modern housing and an efficient means of transportation.

He said: "This is the future that Lagos promised and it is now within our grasp. The future has started, Lagosians are welcome to it.

"We worked very hard to find reliable partners like South Energyx Limited. There are many vistas and aspects to what we commemorate here today. We are reclaiming land that had been lost to the Atlantic through erosion that has now been brought under control."

Fashola said the walls in front of the Atlantic City will prevent flooding.

Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructural Development Prince Segun Oniru said the city would have good roads; surface water drainage; dedicated electricity generation plant with underground distribution; efficient source of water supply, Information Technology (IT) services and a world class Central Business District (CBD).
 
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