Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria - Free Tips To Enjoy VI

Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria is a city within a city. Affectionately called VI, this part of Lagos Nigeria is about the most expensive section of Lagos state . . . second only to ikoyi, another very expensive neighbourhood reserved for the stinking rich.

Expatriates brought with them big money . . . dollars, pound sterling, Yen . . . name it.

Like a rude joke, real estate prices took a hike thereby naturally evicting many low income earners who could not afford the new prices. As you know, where money is . . . business follows.

So, expectedly, big named organizations followed the trend and started shifting their headquarters to Victoria Island, VI.

Today, virtually all the commercial banks have their head office in VI. The oil companies are not left out. Mobil producing head office in Nigeria is in VI. Chevron has its office at Chevron drive on Lekki Epe expressway - an extension of VI.

Bottom line.

That is money!

Luckily, many houses in Victoria Island have boys quarters where some middle class workers can squeeze in at near reasonable rental prices. Those boys quarters also serve as residences for cooks and drivers of our rich expatriate staff and the creme de la creme of the Nigeria society. As is the case everywhere in the world, the poor hang around the rich because the menial jobs of the rich has to be done by the poor of society.

If you work in VI, you have one of two options: