InsideLife
InsideLife Lagos, Nigeria Twelve districts. One real city.
InsideLife Lagos is the real city, laid out from real map data street by street, with its landmarks rebuilt from photos. Live in it, work in it and drive across it with real people.
The map
From Ikeja to Ajah.
Twelve districts, joined by Third Mainland, Carter and Eko bridges, with 5,402 real buildings and 21,596 business spaces between them. Cross from one to the next on foot, in a danfo or in your own car.
Victoria Island
Where InsideLife began: Akin Adesola Street, estate blocks and 2-bedroom flats to rent.
Lagos Island
Marina, CMS, Broad Street, Tinubu Square, Balogun market, Idumota and Obalende.
Ikoyi
Ikoyi island north of Five Cowries Creek, and the Ikoyi end of the Link Bridge.
Lekki
Lekki Phase 1, Admiralty Way and the Lekki toll gate, under its LED billboards.
Ajah
The Lekki-Epe Expressway out to Ajah and the Lekki-Ajah flyover.
Ebute Metta
Iddo, Otto, Oyingbo, Ijora and Iganmu, home of the National Theatre.
Yaba
Yaba, Sabo, Akoka and UNILAG, with the middle of Third Mainland Bridge.
Surulere
The National Stadium, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Ojuelegba and Aguda.
The airport
Murtala Muhammed International, MM1 and MM2, and Airport Road.
Oshodi
The Oshodi interchange and market, Mushin, Isolo and Ilupeju.
Gbagada
Gbagada, Oworonshoki, Anthony and Maryland, where Third Mainland Bridge lands.
Ikeja
The state capital: Alausa, Ikeja GRA, Allen Avenue and Computer Village.
A day in Lagos
Make it in Lagos.
- Work. Call the route as a danfo conductor, ride deliveries or trade in the market. Your pay lands in your bank app.
- Rent. Start in a room in a face-me-I-face-you, then move up to a self-contain, a 2-bedroom flat or a Lekki duplex.
- Drive. Buy a car used, tokunbo or brand new, find parking and sit in the go-slow on Ikorodu Road.
- Hustle. Stock a kiosk, set your prices and hire other players to mind the counter.
- Meet people. Every person on the street is a real player. Chat, swap messages and make friends.
Homes
Get your own key.
Pay the rent each month and the home is yours to walk into: sleep, shower, cook and watch TV, and invite your friends over. Move in bare, basic or fully furnished.
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A 2-bedroom flat in Victoria Island. -
A Lekki duplex with parking for two cars. -
Cook dinner as the sun goes down.
Cars and fuel
Fill up and go.
Filling stations line the main roads of InsideLife Lagos, each with its own price for petrol and diesel. Pull into a pump bay, tell the attendant how much, pay from your wallet and get the receipt on your phone. Maps shows the nearest station.
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Turn off Freedom Way into a pump bay. -
Pay by the naira, or fill the tank. -
Open at night too.
Beaches
Sunday by the sea.
Seven beaches, each built like the real one: Elegushi, Lekki, Alpha, Atican, Oniru, the Eko Atlantic shore and the UNILAG lagoon front. Rent a hut, ride a horse, dance by the DJ and swim between the flags.
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Elegushi on a Sunday. -
A horse ride along the shore.
The airport
Check in at MMIA.
Walk into the international terminal, MM1 and MM2. Queue at the desks, read the flight boards and watch the planes at their stands.
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The departures hall at MMIA. -
A plane at its stand at MM2.
For businesses and advertisers
Open shop in Lagos.
Rent a lock-up, a shop unit, an office floor or a showroom in a real Lagos building, or put your brand on any of 2,997 billboards along the roads players drive.
Cities
After Lagos.
Lagos is the first city in InsideLife. Abuja comes next, then London in the UK.
- Open now
Lagos
12 districts, from Ikeja and the airport to Victoria Island, Lekki and Ajah.
You are here - Coming next
Abuja
The second city in Nigeria, and the first trip between two cities, by road or by air.
About InsideLife Abuja - Coming later
London
InsideLife UK starts in London: the first city outside Nigeria, with its own rules and its own money.
About InsideLife London
Lagos is waiting.
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