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The project

200 acres on the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway

Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria. Direct frontage onto the new carriageway, between the Dangote refinery and the eastern reach of Ibeju-Lekki. Planned as one contiguous parcel so that roads, drainage and services can be laid out properly instead of stitched around existing plots.

Location

Where it sits on the corridor

The Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway corridor through Ibeju-LekkiA schematic map running west to east along the Lagos coastline. The Lagos Lagoon lies to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The Coastal Highway runs between them, passing the subsea cable landings and Victoria Island in the west, then the Lekki Free Zone, Lekki Deep Sea Port and the Dangote Refinery, and reaching the 200-acre Dududa Smart City site in Ibeju-Lekki before continuing east toward Calabar.LAGOS LAGOONATLANTIC OCEANSubsea cable landingsEquiano · 2Africa · MainOne · Glo-1LAGOS–CALABAR COASTAL HIGHWAYLagos · Victoria IslandFinancial centreLekki Free ZoneIndustry & manufacturingLekki Deep Sea PortDeepest port in West AfricaDangote RefineryRefining & petrochemicalsDUDUDA SMART CITY200 ACRES · IBEJU-LEKKIDirect highway frontageeast to CalabarN
Schematic of relative position along the corridor — not a survey drawing. Every anchor shown is existing or under construction; the site boundary is indicative pending title and survey.

The corridor today

  • Aerial view of the completed Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway running beside the Atlantic, with rock armour protecting the seaward edge and built-up areas inland.

    The completed carriageway on the Atlantic edge, rock armour holding the shoreline.

  • Aerial view along a wide multi-lane section of the Coastal Highway in traffic, with a lagoon inlet on one side and industrial yards on the other.

    A finished section in use, lagoon on one side and working yards on the other.

  • Aerial view of the Coastal Highway under construction through a dense built-up part of Lagos, concrete carriageway laid and the ocean visible in the distance.

    Concrete laid through the built-up Lagos stretch, the ocean beyond.

  • Aerial view of roadworks in progress on the Coastal Highway, with crews and machinery laying the sub-base across open ground.

    Works in progress: crews laying sub-base on an open section.

Photographs of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway supplied to the development team. Creator marks appear on the images as circulated and are left intact; credit belongs to the photographers as marked. These show the federal carriageway itself, not the Dududa Smart City site.

Lekki Deep Sea Port

West Africa's deepest port. Puts container and project cargo within a short haul of the site.

Dangote Refinery & Petrochemicals

The largest single-train refinery in the world, and the corridor's biggest employer of skilled labour.

Lekki Free Zone

Established industrial and manufacturing base already drawing tenants and workforce to Ibeju-Lekki.

Subsea cable landings

Equiano, 2Africa, MainOne and Glo-1 come ashore on this coast. That proximity is what makes an edge data centre viable here and nowhere inland.

Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway

The federal coastal carriageway under construction along the Atlantic seaboard, giving the site direct frontage and onward access east.

Straight answers

The questions people actually ask

Why this corridor and not Lagos proper?

Because the land inside Lagos that is worth building on is already priced as if the infrastructure exists. Ibeju-Lekki is where the port, the refinery and the free zone are pulling employment, and where a developer can still assemble a contiguous parcel large enough to plan properly rather than infill a leftover block.

Why does the coast matter beyond the view?

Four subsea cables come ashore near here. Fibre capacity at the landing station is the reason an edge data centre can be economic on this site and not fifty kilometres inland. That single fact is what turns a housing scheme into an infrastructure business.

What happens if the highway is delayed?

The site is planned to work off existing Lekki-Epe access as well as the new carriageway. The Coastal Highway improves the position; it is not the only route in. Phasing is arranged so that the first phase does not depend on a completion date the developer does not control.

Is the land secured?

Acquisition, survey, titling and the environmental impact assessment sit inside Phase 1 of the programme and are funded from the Phase 1 raise. The boundary shown on the corridor diagram is indicative until title and survey are complete — we would rather say that plainly than imply otherwise.

Programme

What gets built, and when

The full build runs 84 months. Phases are sequenced so each one is habitable and revenue-generating before the next begins.

  1. Phase 1Months 0–24

    Land, horizontal infrastructure and the first neighbourhood

    • Site acquisition, survey, titling and environmental impact assessment
    • Primary roads, drainage, water treatment and the solar-plus-storage plant
    • Edge data centre shell and first megawatt of IT load
    • First residential release and the civic core groundworks
  2. Phase 2Months 24–48

    Commercial anchor and social infrastructure

    • Business and technology district first buildings, leased not sold
    • District hospital and the primary and secondary schools open
    • Retail spine and covered market trading
    • Second and third residential releases
  3. Phase 3Months 48–66

    Density, park and innovation park

    • Central park, wetland works and sports precinct complete
    • Innovation park buildings alongside the expanded data centre
    • Technical college opens
    • Mid-rise residential density added on serviced land
  4. Phase 4Months 66–84

    Completion and stabilised operations

    • Final residential releases and full occupancy push
    • Utilities, connectivity and services running as a stabilised operating business
    • Second-city site selection using the same playbook
See the land budgetInvestment case