Why Lagos Is Building a Tunnel Under the Lagoon
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Nigeria's Crazy Plan to Build Africa's First Underwater Tunnel
Lagos has a problem no city its size should have.
Twenty two million people.
Three bridges.
And hours lost every single day sitting in traffic.
Now, Nigeria is planning something that has never been done on this continent before: an underwater highway tunnel beneath the Lagos Lagoon.
The plan sounds almost unbelievable. A three-kilometer tunnel starting on Victoria Island, running beneath the lagoon, and emerging on Snake Island. From there, a new road could bypass Lagos’s overcrowded bridges entirely.
Supporters say this project could finally unlock Lagos, reduce congestion, and reshape how goods and people move across Nigeria’s largest city.
Critics say it raises serious questions.
Why this route?
Why Snake Island?
Why was there no open bidding for a project of this size?
And who really benefits if the land around the tunnel suddenly becomes valuable?
In this documentary, we break down:
• Why Lagos traffic has reached a breaking point
• Where the underwater tunnel starts and where it ends
• How the land-for-infrastructure deal works
• Who is building the project and why it’s controversial
• What could go wrong and what success would actually look like
This is not a story about a tunnel alone.
It’s a story about land, power, infrastructure, and the future of Africa’s largest city.
Watch till the end, because the real question isn’t whether this tunnel can be built.
It’s whether Lagos can afford for it to fail.
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