Bar Beach, Lagos

[5] From the early 1970s to the late eighties, during the military regime, Bar Beach was a site where many convicted armed robbers and coup plotters were executed by firing squad.

[10][11] The convicted plotters of the coup of February 1976 that killed General Murtala Mohammed, including Major-General I D Bisalla and Col. Buka Suka Dimka, were also shot by firing squad on Bar Beach.

[20] The Eko Atlantic project has been criticized for having a design flaw that may contribute to continuing flooding in Lagos[21] because of its being "highly susceptible to rising tides, as it is based on an artificial sandbar directly adjacent to the ocean.

[24][25] Nnedi Okorafor's 2014 novel Lagoon is set in an alternative 2010, where Bar Beach is still a thriving entertainment district and the site of first contact between humans and extraterrestrial visitors.

[1] In order to contain the flooding, erosion and other environmental issues around the beach, the Federal Government of Nigeria, has for the last forty years, spent over thirty billion naira on several projects aimed at improving the environment.