About two days ago, I returned from visiting my Uncle in Hamburg (Germany). I was there for a week a week and on the first day I got there, he told me that CNN was the only English channel (I took my Uncle’s word until the day I was leaving and I discovered BBC and a channel showing Oprah in English with German subtitles). While I was watching CNN that day, I saw an advert for EkoAtlantic which is like the Palm Islands in Dubai but in Nigeria.
Eco Atlantic is a dynamic new city that will rise from the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria – the biggest and fastest growing city in West Africa. It will be built on land that is being reclaimed from the sea, and is now for sale. Eko Atlantic will become home to at least 250,000 residents, with commuter volume expected to exceed 150,000 people daily. Valuable land that was lost to generations of Nigerians has started to reappear, expanding every day. Eko Atlantic will grow into a vibrant, twenty-first century city, larger than Victoria Island, and will help to establish Lagos as the financial capital of Africa.
I am quite excited this project! We always hear of this kind of things coming out of the UAE and now it’s going to be something in Africa. I have been trying to figure out the expected date for the project to finish and it looks like it will be a good 10-15 years. Reclaiming the sand from the sea and building the shoreline alone, is going to take about 6 years. But I think it is surely will be something to look forward to!
SOURCE: EKOATLANTIC
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