What is an Island?
An island is a land mass surrounded by water (smaller than a continent). There are three island types: Continental; Oceanic; and Tropical. Here is a list of Nigeria's major Islands which will enhance general know-how for readers.
Nigeria is sections closer to the water and it provides places with islands. The natural or artificial formation of the islands are permitted at sites such as Lagos, the rivers and at other lower ends of the Niger Delta with close access to rivers and oceans. Some of Nigeria's islands are listed below:
Abagbo Island
The last island in the outskirts of Lagos is Abagbo Island. The riverine region of the island has been disturbed and has led to less than stellar modernisation changes and apparently sluggish growth. Former governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos, has taken on a project to build and upgrade river regions such as Abagbo.
Andoni Island
In Rivers State, Nigeria, Andoni's Local Government Area. Its main office is in the city of Ngo. It has over 233 square kilometers and the last census has a population of more than 311,500.
The people of Obolo, also known as the tribe of Andoni, form part of the Obolo State proposed. The Rivers and Akwa Ibom states of Nigeria include Obolo people. They are the largest sub-ethnic community in Nigeria in the Ijaw area with close historical connections with the people of Oron, Ohafia, Ogoloma, Ido and Ibeno.
The population of the Oboli, composed of the largest oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Guinea, occupy the longest stretch of Nigerian mangrove belt. The people of Andoni call God Awaji or Owaji.
Banana Island
The island of Banana is an island created by people of Lagos State, a small curved island in Nigeria like bananas. The road connected to Ikoyi Island is connected to the existing road network near Parkview estate. It is located in the Lagoon of Lagos. It is the same as in the seventh Arrondissement, in Paris, La Jolla in San Diego and Tokyo's Shibuya and Roppongi districts, as it has also been built by the Lebanese-Nigerian Chagoury Community in collaboration with the Federal Ministry für Works and Housing.
Bonny Island
Situated on the bay of Bonny, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the island of Bonny is the seat of a typical Bonny state. The priest king named Ndoli founded Bonny. He was the leaders of the Bonny Island Founding Party, along with his successors Opuamakuba and Alagbariye. About 1400AD were founded the virgin lands and territories of the Kingdom of Island. Asimini, the fourth king (but the first to be crowned) founded a dynasty that supplied the majority of the monarchs of the kingdom.
Brass Island
Brass Island is an island located in the Nigerian Niger Delta. This is the location of Brass Twon, Nigeria's southern Bayelsa state head of the Brass local government. It is noted for its inhabitants' traditional costumes, which were greatly inspired by Edwardian British colonialism.
Iceland Island in Ibom Akwa
The island of Parrot is located in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The area height above seal level is estimated to be 15 metres.
Ogogoro island
Gberefu Island
Gberefu Island is also a populous historical island in Badagry, in the town and municipality of Lagos state, South-West Nigeria recognized as Point of No Return. Symbolized by two gently sloping poles facing the Atlantic Ocean, the island, after opening in 1473 during the transatlantic period of slave trade, was a great Slave Port. The Nigerian historians claim that between 1518 and 1880, up to 10,000 slaves were transported from the island to America
Iddo Island
Iddo is the Lagos Mainland district LGA. Iddo was once an island, but now it is part of the rest of Lagos Mainland due to settlement. Opposite island of Lagos. The Eko Bridge and Carter Bridge links Iddo Island to Lagos Island. Iddo, who was named after Sir George Chardin Denton, former Lieutenant Governor of Colony of Lagos, was linked with Lagos Mainland before the landfill by the Denton Bridg. The Lagos Terminus is home to Iddo and was the first and the only tram station in Nigeria - connecting the island of Lagos to the Bridge of Carter.
Ikoyi
Ikoyi is Lagos's wealthiest neighbourhood in the region of Eti Osa LGA. It is situated on the northwest side of the Lagoon Island and on the west side of the Lagoon Islands. Ikoyi is believed to be one of the richest areas in Nigeria, with the extreme upper class residents of Nigerian society. Ikoyi's area was initially a contiguous mass of land with Lagos Island before it was divided by a narrow waterway dug by the colonial government of the UK, the MacGregor Canal. This canal was now constructed or filled to fuse the island again with Lagos Island.
