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Ikoyi is the name of neighbourhood that forms part of the city of Lagos in Nigeria.
Lying at the edge of Lagos Lagoon, Ikoyi was once an island which was separated from Lagos Island by a narrow waterway which was dug by the British during colonial times to split Lagos Island into two. The creek has now been built over or filled so that the two islands are fused together again. It is protected from the Atlantic Ocean by Victoria Island and the broad sand spit running east down the coast.
In the colonial period, the island was developed as a residential cantonment for the expatriate British community and still retains many of the large colonial residences built between 1900 and 1950.
Upmarket residential properties continued to be built after the colonial period, and the Island and its Dodan Barracks became the residence of some of Nigeria's military rulers. Ikoyi now contains many other government buildings as well as hotels, schools, Ikoyi Park, and the famous golf course, the Ikoyi Club 1938.
Despite the lack of constant electricy, pipe borne water and a general decay in basic infrastructure, Ikoyi is thought to have the most expensive real estate in Africa.
In the colonial period, the island was developed as a residential cantonment for the expatriate British community and still retains many of the large colonial residences built between 1900 and 1950.
Upmarket residential properties continued to be built after the colonial period, and the Island and its Dodan Barracks became the residence of some of Nigeria's military rulers. Ikoyi now contains many other government buildings as well as hotels, schools, Ikoyi Park, and the famous golf course, the Ikoyi Club 1938.
Despite the lack of constant electricy, pipe borne water and a general decay in basic infrastructure, Ikoyi is thought to have the most expensive real estate in Africa.
Lagos, Nigeria
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Lagos as seen from the harbour near Victoria Island.
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"Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
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"Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey"
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"Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
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Lagos Lagoon is a lagoon sharing its name with the city of Lagos, Nigeria, second-largest city in Africa, which lies on its south-western side.
City and lagoon were named by the Portuguese.
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City and lagoon were named by the Portuguese.
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Lagos Island is the principal and central local government area of the Metropolitan Lagos in Nigeria. It is part of the Lagos Division. As of the preliminary 2006 Nigerian census, the LGA had a population of 209,437 in an area of 8.7 km².
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Victoria Island (VI) is the main business and financial centre of Lagos, Nigeria. It was originally a residential area, but businesses have been moving in steadily over the last twenty years. Today, Victoria Island is one of Nigeria's busiest centres of banking and commerce.
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expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2] (French)
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Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardised playing field or area; defined in the Rules of Golf as
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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