Nigeria - The Expatriate Address Book

a Free Access Report

We have decided to start a Free Access address book for newly arrived Expats in Nigeria. This listing will begin with where you can go to have some entertainment (tourism, sight seeing, leisure, beach, bars & pubs, restaurants, hotels in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja.
Expatriation in Nigeria will give you a special experience but at the beginning you need to find places where you will what you need for your installation and there is no yellow pages for that.
When the list will be big enough it will be proposed for download at the foot of this page.

Contributors are welcome. If a place for outing is not listed here, you can send us an e-mail at info @ nigeria-oil-gas.com with infos about the place you want to see listed, the address and why not a few lines of comments.

Lagos

Beach:

Eleko Beach
Lekki-Ekpe Expressway
Comment: The beach accessible by 45 mins drive. You can rent a wooden hut for the day.

Tarkwa Bay
Comments: Accessible by boat only. If you don´t own a boat, you can go by banana boat (pirogue) at Tarzan Jetty on Victoria Island.

Sight Seeing:

Chevron Park
Lekki Ekpe Expressway, After Chevron Nig Ltd Head Quarters
Comments: monkeys, crocodiles to see if you go very early in the morning.

Oshogbo
Comments:

Cotonou, Benin Republic
Comments: Only 2 hours drive from Lagos.

Bars & Pubs:

Havana Bar Ikoyi
10, Ribadu Road, S.W. Ikoyi
Specialities: Cocktails, Beers
Comments: Excellent food also (chicken cordon bleu, spicy shredded beef ...)

Havana Bar V.I.
Victoria Island

Kumo Cafe
Eko Hotel, Pool Side Level, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island
Comments: mainly for business meetings. On the pool side

Pat´s Bar
Victoria Island
Specialities: Beer
Comments: Biltong available (dry spicy shredded beef sticks from South Africa)

Outside Inn
NAPEX Compound, Victoria Island

Y Not
Victoria Island
Comments: Certainly the most crowded especially fridays and saturdays. If you are a fresh fish, your friends will certainly bring you there at first.

Coffee Bars:

Mega Plaza Coffee Bar
Mega Plaza Shopping Mall, 2nd Floor, 14 Idowu Street, Victoria Island

Night-Clubs:

11.45
Awolowo Road, S.W. Ikoyi

Pancho - Villa
176, Moshood Olugbami Street,Off Ligali Ayorinde, Victoria Island

Shopping:

Park N´ Shop
Victoria Island

Goodies´
Awolowo Road, S.W. Ikoyi

Goodie´s
Victoria Island

Mega Plaza Shopping Mall
Victoria Island

Restaurants:

After Hours
8 Louise Farakhan Crescent, Victoria Island
Specialities: Continental, Fast Food

Al Basha
126, Awolowo Road, S.W. Ikoyi
Specialities: Lebanese mezze, Pizzeria (with Pizza Oven)
Comments: Our favorite lebanese restaurant in Lagos.

L´Aquarelle
Sofitel The Moorhouse Ikoyi - Accor Hotels, 1 Bankole Oki Road, S.W. Ikoyi, Lagos
Specialities: Nigerian, French, Continental
Comments: The sole actual French restaurant in Lagos to or knowledge.