The Great Wall of Lagos: 50% Complete

Great wall of Lagos to protect the 9 Million Square Meters land to be reclaimed from the sea.

This is not 3D rendition, its the real thing after 4 years

At present {20:March 2013}, over 5Million Square Meters have been reclaimed in simple English: A land mass as big as a small village is been formed, created, made, installed or reclaimed back from the Sea that have stolen it over years of serious waves, flooding that attacked lagos years back, Lagos is a Densely populated State in Nigeria, when i say densely populated i mean [i mean that is has been practically impossible to properly say how many people live in Lagos, census has been incorrect nevertheless i think it is well over 17million people].

Lagos State shaded with Red, so tiny in the map of Nigeria yet contains most of her population

So you can imagine how possible, yes it has been like that, and right now there is little or no more space even in Victoria ireland, not to talk about the danger posed by Lagos' close proximity to the Ocean.

Piling for first Building (Tower) Commences by China Construction company CCCC

World's best dredger: Congo River Dredger dredging and reclaiming even more land after the 5Million Square meters Land Milestone achieved a month ago

Dredging with the Congo River is the Highest of technology in dredging machines, as Live view or coverage are sent to Dredge International (DEME) 's head office in Belgium via Live satelite feed, this will enable optimization and more efficient dredging

A view of how the current Lagos synchronizes with the new Eko Atlantic

The Great Wall of Lagos is Eko Atlantic, it is the bed rock, the genius, the technological expertise used on it in addition to the cost rivals most technological innovation.

5 ton Stone nick-named Accropode

A field of Accropodes that will be used to strengthen the wall

A Man's height to one 5 Ton Accropode

100 accropodes will be used for the wall, and one of those accropodes weighs a ton
Other info

Copa Lagos 2012 - Cheerleaders at the Worldwide Beach Soccer tournament Held on the Land reclaimed from the See: Eko Atantic, Lagos.

Beach Soccer match going on at Eko

Videos igihioh For most of the Nigerians familiar with the term "NEPA" there will be no issue with NEPA as power will be served {NEPA no go take light}, no need to buy "Pure Water" water will be purified and centrally distributed, what more to say, is it the Fibre optics cable that will run through the city to provide

highspeed internet that will be made available for use and that exactly has been one of the major factors that has enabled funding of the project from banks Locally, nationally and internationally. Brand-new Congo river, the world's toughest sand dredger launched and sent to Lagos to start and complete phase 2 of sand dredging  for a year. The most amazing thing is that few years ago i covered the progress about Eko Atlantic but it feels more accomplishing to see that they have already began Piling of foundation pillars for the first Building after the Milestone celebration of the 5MillionSquareMeters of land form the see. What more can i say, the Lagos state government has been able to remove the tag "Dream" to "Reality" while using 3 birds to kill one stone (lol) by

1. Prevent the Atlantic ocean from hitting the lagos shoreline, preventing flood
2. A new city, (Houses, Work, Road, Tourism, Beach) {this bird has many children}
3. Self powering city (Power, Internet, Water, Sewage, all centrally managed)

so lets wait more, i'll be updating this post as i get more info
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