This is What Happened to LANDMARK BEACH in Lagos Nigeria | Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2024
- I went to the famous Landmark Beach in Lagos to see the extent to which the Lagos-Calabar Road will affect it.
The Nigerian government is building a highway from Lagos to Calabar and Landmark beach is in it's right of way.
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway: • The 700km Lagos-Calaba...
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Is there nothing the government can do to avoid destroying Landmark beach?
Sure there is, but the bribe money is not being paid
@@DV-lr8ec Not issue of bribe. If it is for bribe, the man could have pay anything. They want to make way to that Lebanese to build his own beach, to avoid strong competition with Landmark Beach, and also to have direct access road to Eko Atlantic which is owned by the same man. The company doing the demolition is also own by the same man.
Landmark is in a destructive location, the owner knows this. If coastal road doesn't consume it then eko Atlantic City phase will definitely consume it.
Fair point. Thanks for watching.
The truth is that this Road construction in front of Landmark is for the benefits of the owners of EKO Atlantic City. This a prime real estate property, and the road construction going straight through Land Mark will give easy access to Eko Atlantic city. The construction company building the Coastal Highway is the same owner of Eko Atlantic. . There is a conflict of interest here. The story that the government is taking the land that belongs to government is ridiculous. Sooner or later , watch out Eko Atlantic will have its own beach front.The truth will eventually come to light.
You are liar. Landmark has been profiled on BBC, CNN and several Nigerian and African youtubers like Wode Maya. It is very shameful what you guys did. We will see who will laugh last.
So Eko Atlantic should stop the sand filling. Since 2009 or earlier they had gotten the right to reclaim Bar beach and after so many years of reclaiming. They have built not even up to 10 buildings for a city that was meant to host several districts and up to 100 buildings and solve the problems of housing in Lagos State (selling at a King’s ransom). So how about Eko Atlantic focuses on building bar beach first and focus on completing the wall to the Lekki Epe end so the communities further down and the entirety of the coastal road doesn’t get washed away by erosion in some years to come.
@@ted.n9609 but that is the tragedy of Nigeria. Even if so, its not like you can't create access to Eko by going through back. So that everybody wins. The black man does not understand the very basic concept of the win-win. And people who will not benefit from anything Tinubu does are praising this for provinciality sake. one igbo man success dey pain you like that? it's pretty dumb
They can build an over head bridge and the beach will still remain, it’s not rocket science, this government don’t know shit about tourism 😢
They know, it’s deliberate act to destroy some of the business because someone is interested in capturing the land thereafter. If we are alive 7 to 10 years down the line, there would be readjustment and introduction of pillars. Once that is done the land is therefore reintroduced for market bid. Other company will buy it under a majority stake by the same people who destroyed the first. It’s a game Tinubu is known for. Let’s hope (Landmark etc) have got a strong insurance that will manage their lost and destruction.
Pls tell them to come and fix the already existing roads. By the time they are done with, they would have found a solution to this matter.
Afam should go and give update about the ongoing demolition in Onitsha with over 4,000 people render homeless.
You are a mooo0ron!
It's unfortunate but the beach is a public property. Anyone building on a beach should keep that in mind.
Most people don’t know that all beaches in Nigeria are public property and it free for everyone
@@edigeorge548 landmark was charging for it...
There are hundreds of resorts in the Caribbean with private beaches. The governments of Jamaica, Bahamas and other Caribbean Island countries are not building roads in front of the resorts.
There are private beaches too... you the government to buy the rights of the beach
@@peterman7627 you are crazy
It also happened to the owners of the land, at Oniru beach. You guys are only focussed on your Igbo brothers property. In the end, the government owns the shoreline.
Is your brain functioning? Absolutely no soul knows the beaches you mentioned, everybody knows landmark, it brings in billions every year for the state, foreigners come there every holiday season so ofcourse it'll raise eyebrows. Imagine comparing the beach you just mentioned to landmark, you sef think naw
Shut up
so you live in a country where you all the same citizens common faith but in that same country you have people who are not your brothers...something serious wrong with you tribalistic and religious mumus
The government does not own the shoreline. The citizens of Nigeria own it.
Nothing is going on there... this is not different from other beaches along the 777km stretch. What is the big deal with less than one kilometer? You guys have moved away from demolition of property to beach?
The point is..its one of the most attractive beaches you can swim without being sucked in by the waves.. and for people to take a load off from the stress off Nigeria, seeing that there's not much else besides hanging at a bar, mall, or eating to do! if they were smart, they would have kept the beach and built a highway. Make it make sense!
I don't know what kind of consensus that would be, but hopefully it works for both parties. It is well.
Wow
Hey Latifah 💕
You should be educating people that Lagos is not the only city in Nigeria. One guy went to Edo state and built an ultra modern park there. He got a bigger space, cheaper to build, safe, quiet, but more importantly, no headache, no worries? What are the chances anybody will demolish the park? Not likely. Part of the problem is that we don't like to tell each other the truth.
The owners of Eko Atlantic is the same construction company building the road, and they have always wanted landmark beach to add to Eko Atlantic phase 2
It has been more than 15 years they have not sold out eko Atlantic which is very empty . Why do they want more land for .
@@czogg99I guese landmark achieved what they couldn't, so they better distroy it.
Mumu comment. Where is ur education?
Again nothing unfortunate is going on, no destruction ongoing, just Government taking it's coastline and the coastline shouldn't be commercialised!!! The buildings are still useful, look at kuramo beach for instance
Huh? What do you mean ? Lots of coast lines are commercialized and top tourist attractions for many countries. You can commercialize a coastline and at the same time protect the environment. For example the penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Cape Town . What the Nigerian government is doing is destroying the environment.
@@user-ox7vb6sy1d ok now, go fight government, and do yo think landmark is the only commercialised beach in lagos? If you want private beaches you will find them in lagos, for example attican at ajah, go there, government wants to use this one, and the project will come alive and we will use it and chill on the free coastline when tired of driving, you'll do nothing at all
@user-cz9ph3ks5b Don't mind the sentimental fools. They want one man's private business to overule the interest of a whole country. To hell with landmark and give me the Lagos to Calabar coastal highway. Good Job Federal Government!
@@user-cz9ph3ks5b You don't understand anything about Tourism. The Beach is much important and it can bring much Tourists and Billions of US Dollars to the both Lagos State Government and the Federal Government than building Africa Standard Road with no Road Marks.
How many roads in Nigeria that are marked? Over 90% of roads in Nigeria are unmarked.
Over 80% of roads in Abuja and Lagos are unmarked, instead of the FG to work on unmarked roads in Nigeria, they are now busy want to destroy the most developed Beach in Nigeria and other Tourist Attractions for another useless road without road marks.
Nigeria leaders need to go and study Abroad how to develop a country.
@@papap1186 buh the road for economic development isn't? Una dey muse do you know how many yourist attractions that road will attract in the naija delta? How much is landmark even giving lagos state? Not Top 30 businesses in the state by the way, if only you know how much the govt will generate from tourism if people visit places like Delta, Akwa ibom or cross river, beaches, rivers, cattle ranch, name it, resort, buh because of one landmark you say make government block tourism, bro can still use the resorts like that, there are resorts in jos, Ibadan etc without beach, still has the hotel, nothing is destroyed, you wan dey follow government fight with wetin im dey borrow from government, the rail track and 5 lanes didn't even start from there because of the businesses there to avoid demolitions
I really want to understand this project. The beaches are one of the best things about lagos. Why build a road on the beach? And seems it covers all the beach in lagos.
It covers most beaches in Victoria Island. It moves away from t beach an goes to the land at some point after VI.
Everyone is talking rubbish for sure. When that road is completed, it would be the best scenery in Africa.
@@adekunleyussuf4259 I do see the concept sha. But they better leave enough beach for us! Cause personally that’s the best thing about lagos! And most importantly I hope they finish it! Cause it no news our gov have a history with abandoned projects.
You are also talking rubbish. Where was the government when the property was being put there?
At the expense of tourist attraction?@@adekunleyussuf4259
Must the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway start from Victoria Island?
Where should it start from? Ode.
Sand-feeling the beach for road makes the contractors looks like amateur .Destruction of an eco system for worthless coastal road is a different level of foolishness. Way I see it, the beach isn’t that deep so why not casted pillars and preserve the eco system ? I mean a renegotiation with Landmark is never a bad idea to cover some of the cost by way of increased taxation within that area. Why are they rushing to build a coastal road ? What is so important to transport between Calabar, port harcourt and so many other places it’s meant to connect ? That couldn’t be done via another means of transportation . Do we not have a federal road that connects lagos down to Calabar ? Fix it. The east or so called North East are tired of Maritime transport monopoly by lagos prompting Abia state to tap into states right to erect their port, all of sudden coastal road became eminent
Worthless coastal road? You are so ignorant on this issue
@@mrnaija101 It’s a waste of resources. It is doomed to fail or would turn around to be one hell of an abandoned project marked by scam. Ondo, Bayelsa, Port harcourt and Calabar first of all do not play by the same rules as lagos. Land use act and acquisition is a thing that those states adhere to, so imagine the push back likely to be received if they took it there to destroy their properties by passing through their land without compensation. Again After ondo the land are mainly swampy and full of under water tree spike’s that would give them a hell a challenges to accomplished. Thirdly what is the economic advantage of this road ? How much do you think one will generate by motorist. Oil and Gas is already transported via underwater pipeline down to lagos, is it agricultural products ? Calabar haven’t enough to want to push down to lagos what they don’t have . The road doesn’t make sense.
@@mrnaija101you people are playing with Mother Nature, casting a concrete road on top a wet sand bay, extremely close to the ocean 🌊 it’s just another disaster waiting to happen. One heavy storm ⛈️ the road will be washed away. If not that section of the road will be a failure point with it needing constant repairs from cracks and recessed surfaces, it’s a bad idea constructing that road too close to the beach front.
Think of a cost-effective project and the majority beneficiary, not minorities
@@omisorebayo3658 There’s no majority there. Majority is Ibadan,Benin,Delta, Anambra,Enugu,Owerri,ABA etc Federal Road. This is a coastal road that is unlikely to access the inland roads of the area it is marked to run through.
Anambra state want to borrow some part of the beach in Southwest to build their elusive seaport? We have so many beaches in Southwest states. It won't matter to us losing Landmark beach.When the road is completed, it would provide beautiful and aesthetic feeling to Lagosians and residents of the state. We are totally in support of this road project.
Adekunle you ve not been to the beach in modakeke , ile ife , ( Akoraye beach) and the massive one at Oye - ekiti ( Ekiti kete beach ) lagos is nothing compared to these ones
@OmenErumoore Any link to Arokaye Beach? I want to visit the site.
kai Naija! Small tact, discussion and good reason could address something like this. The entire city has no actual beach in the island you'd have to take ferry to go to a beach. Lagosians loved the place, it was a pride of many. Employed others. There was NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE??? God forbid for una
So they should neglect a coastal road which is supoosed to generate close to 600 trillion naira in 15 years because if landmark beach abi? It is people like you that vote in elections and thinking you are voting the right person or people like you will come up tomorrow and say they want to be leaders. What a pity. Ode.
@@fatfarmers7360 you are plain daft. They have an alternative route they can leverage. That's the point.
@@fatfarmers7360What is the state of exiting road???
Your point doesn’t make any sense.
@@arifayanoladipupo6569 your comment makes no sense. try making an actual point
Thank for your update on the coastal Road.. we need more updates. Good job bro. Greats from Uk. NIGERIA MUST BE GREAT...
Thank you very much.
Landmark should have known though that eko Atlantic phase 2 covers the whole of that area..Why build you investment so near knowing it's going to come sooner or later?My question though,if eko Atlantic is reclaiming Nigerian shoreline and building cities what are we getting back as a country then?lt does not look like they are paying Nigeria anything,seems like one way traffic kind of business to me.🤔
10% for the big guy
The Supreme Court judgement gave the two hundred and fifty meter beach head to the federal government . People should know the beach head from ground zero to 250 meter belong to government . No one can contest that .
My only question. Does landmark have a C of O of the occupied land?
Definitely not for the beach but they probably have for their their buildings are erected.
Where was the government when landmark was beach was being built?
Sea-level rise nko??
What a country.
Landmark should have built the thing in Port Harcourt. Next time he should build it in Port Harcourt, or Aba or Onitsha waterfronts. He will still make money. People will come from all the states in the Eastern region, plus tourists from abroad and other Nigerian states. He should make sure to build at least a Sixteen floor hotel by his waterfront Eastern location.
How can an individual lay claims to coastal beaches all in the name of operating businesses on coastal lines in Lagos? Why can't such business men go to Eket or Ibeno beaches in Akwa Ibom and lay claims? This landmark beach is gone for good in order to pave ways for the Lagos-Calabar coastal highways.
There are thousands of resorts in the Caribbean and Asia that claim ownership of beaches. Companies build the resorts and their beaches is private. The Yoruba tribe will regret what they did to Landmark.
He invested a lot of money to reclaim the beach and make it a tourist destination. Why did the government not stop the development then . Only in Nigeria do we destroy based on tribal sentiment .
@@longinusukentamust everything turn tribal? I tire for una oh
@@czogg99
Don't mind the lying bastsrds.
@@oladipookunfolami2021
You turned it into tribal when your coastal road veered right to go and destroy Landmark Beach, and as soon as it finished destroying the beach, it veered left to its original plan. You guys will regret what you did to Landmark Beach.
What is unfortunate about development?
I tire o. Can you imagine that?
@@mulikatadegbite3012 na to pray for people to heal
How can you destroy this tourist attraction and replace with a damn road? What happens to all the beeches in Lagos? This is a very daft move obviously corruption-driven in a country where existing rail and road infrastructure is in a state of disrepair. This would only happen in a country where people are incapable of asking the right questions and holding the government to account
Negotiate with the govt to build a bridge over the coastal road.
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If anything, Why haven't they used their imagination to build a Golden Gate Bridge style structure in red to compliment the environment. Very sad this.
Can't the govt put flyover in the place?
That will require a truck load of money for just a flyover.
The truth most be said, the Yorubas and fulani are fighting cold War with the Igbos.
Nonsensical statements. The owner of the land want their land for development the construction of lagos calabar highways affected our royal house too the Oniru family, are you going to say the yorubas are waging a cold war with their royal family?
Says the bini illiterate who's contribution always is nothing but troublemaking, mischief, gossip, delusions, wickedness, envy and jealousy and nothing more.
I am highly disappointed that you osahon of all people I respect can say such a thing like this, you are too enlightened for such illiteracy
@@teazerfemi people like this don't deserve your respect....
Wow, so unfortunate
Thanks for watching
Stop crying like baby. Go to court or move to Azumini Blue River and build the same thing, then watch it grown to something bigger.
Always sounds impossible until it is done.
Another great business and employee of Nigerians distroyed when the federal government cannot repair most Nigerian dilapidated roads, they are constructing a new one for 4 billion naira per kilometer.
My country is bleeding.
For all the stupid comments. No one is disputing that the beach is public/govt property. It's that they had alternatives. Why would you go out of your way to take the most destructive path to a treasured lagos attractio?
Exactly. The point is no about who owns the beach but about the fact that almost the entire Victoria Island will likely be without a beach.
The Federal and or State Governments can acquire even private landed property “For the Public Good”, under the Regional and Urban Planning Act 1992. The Land Use Act 1978, also enables the State Governor powers to acquire and use Private or Public land as they deem fit. In some countries it is refereed to as “Compulsory Purchase Order”. Not sure how Landmark will be compensated for this crippled investment.
In Nigeria it appears that, unless under another government can true justice prevail. At the moment, looks like, without significant political contacts at a point in time, your chances are slim. Falomo Shopping Centre from Fashola, to Amode and eventually Sanwo-Olu, a lot happened but may be the dust has settled…
In this, I am assuming all due diligence (with regards to Searches, by Landmark’s Conveyance legal teams did a reasonably good job) all those years ago.
What is the meaning of the coastal road self..
Its a misplaced priority.
That is why Tinubu started frin Lagos.calaba to lahos for what...why not upgrade existing road and creat a reail way..wbo wnt to drive up to 700km .
Any business in that line
This is really sad for the owners.
You guys should be educating people on due process before building or buying. Works Minister, Dave Umahi said that 385ft of coastal land belongs to federal government. Landmark is entirely within that 385 ft. If or how he got approval for that space, I do not know.
What do you mean that you don't know how he got approved for the place. Are you playing dumb or plain stupid.
He was told of the imminent development in advance yet still went ahead with his business and now he is shouting as if it would stop the gov from developing the shoreline. make i collect his money and run back to London jor
Typical planning chaos. Very sad that.
The day the water gets angry, you people will see hmmm🎉
Story
This is a national development and no single private company can stop it so let him get paid and find something else to do moreover the business structure is mediocre but luxury for Nigerians.
The beach is a PUBLIC property. Its is not right for one person to MANIPULATE his way and build about half a mile on a public beach. What will happen if all the 23 million people in Lagos also want to build on the beach. You need to stop blackmailing people with useless videos.
But it's done in western countries, and people like you will go there, and pay for it!
Someone bought a piece of land opposite the beach the claim the beach as his property 😆🤣🤣
For everyone coming into landmark a gate fee of 5000 is imposed & goes into one man pocket he then pays the government peanut as tax
In as much as i value tourism i think the owners of landmark are selfish..
If they value tourism then make the gate fee a bit affordable.. If they aren’t selfish minded why charge so much? Why monopolize & bill the people so much because they want to have a view of the beach which is government owned all because a piece of land you bought runs through the coastal body of water
Taking away beautiful coastline beaches for traffic pollution and trucks. It does not make sense .
Doesn’t make sense at all .
Thanks for watching
Only in naija do they build useless road and destroy economic development that last generations. Th
Who say ?@@czogg99
Just like in other parts of the world with beaches, the gov must make the area NO CARS
it's gone already
This is nonsense! They should have avoided destroying the earnings potential of this wonderful enterprise.
Why are some of our people like this? This business and many others will just varnish because the govt doesn't seem to know how to develop, keep businesses at the same time. I feel bad for the businesses affected by this reckless policy of govt, apparently, they don't care about the number of people that'll be unemployed as a result of this callous act. Sad indeed.
Ge t the right information before calling the government reckless. You arebeing sentimental.
@@youme1414 what's sentimental, must a highway be right in the mouth of the ocean? In other videos I suggested other ways of solving this, one being building a bridge over said businesses, keeping everyone happy. Meanwhile, I have also seen coastal highways that are sometimes hundreds of metres away from the beach in some sections. Thi highway (important indeed) mustn't take away other people's hard earned businesses just like that. There must be a way to achieve a win win solution in this case.
@@Isiejeme0829 You need to get better information, sir. Even the head of the Landmark business, for example, knows that and he is not forceful like you do.
@@youme1414 OK sir you that knows it all. 🙄🙄🙄
the feasibility of such investments would have pointed to the risk inherent....am not privy to it.....that's the risk some investors would wave off and blindly go ahead....let the landmark show the financial projections and the risk mitigants reports
Landmark should be compensated for his loss, if need be, take the beach to somewhere in south south or south east. LAGOS is not the only coastal city in Nigeria. STOP manipulating public sentiments with useless videos.
This is neither a blackmail nor a propaganda.
These are just 4000 people who are about to lose their means of livelihood appealing to the government to save their jobs by finding a win win solution to retain the road which is a laudable project and preserve Landmark which already provides 12k jobs directly and indirectly. The coastal road intiative afterall being undetaken for public interest and Landmark Beach is already doing same by employing a large chunk of the populace.
The road is projected to employ an estimated number of 50,000 people and Landmark already directly and indirectly employs 1/5th of that so as opposed to taking out Landmark and adding their 12k employees to the 10m unemployed people within the country, it may be wise to consolidate Landmark's 12k and create 62,000 jobs instead. This is very possible esepcially as Landmark is only at the first 1.5km of the 700km road and the remainder over 690km of the road can still be used to generate 50k jobs for the good of the public.
Where mosquitoes and armed rubbery is the order of the day? no thank you
He's made enough money 😊
Some of our people can be very stubborn. Since after the war in 1970 Ojukwu, Nnamdi Kanu and many others have been advising our people to invest in the east. The people of Nnewi in Anambra State and others took the advice and established their businesses in Igboland. There has been numerous warnings that Igbo businesses in the north and west of Nigeria are not safe and are likely to be destroyed by other tribes. Nobody(even Peter Obi) can fix Nigeria and this is just the beginning because the worst is yet to come. There is too much hate and mistrust.
God punished for this video and waste of time
Useless Nigeria. Diaspora family who wants to return home and invest are given it a second thought
In your diaspora, can you lay claim to a Central Govt property you never paid for? Who owns beach front all over the world?
@@mrnaija101 did they not know it is public property before concessioning / leasing it out to landmark? This is almost destroying one man's investment.
@@bellemskey Who told you the beach was concessioned to them? It was just an opportunity and gain for Landmark since it wasn't in use by the Federal Govt, what they paid for to Lagos state Govt only included the whole land where their main Infrastructures are like the Event centre, Landmark highrise building, HardRock Cafe etc. I have nothing against Landmark but I'm just clarifying the issues
It is thier trade in stock to always tribalise any issue in Nigeria,the shore line is the property of the Federal goverment and now have been acquired for developmental purpose for good of the MAJORITY of Nigerians.
Stop the complain go and build and stay in the east, you have 5 igbo state in the east.
Why u dey vex na 😂