Court Halts FG Plans To Demolish Banana Island Property To Pave Way For Apple Island

The plans by the federal government of Nigeria to demolish some properties in Banana Island to pave way for a new estate called Apple Island has been halted by a court.

A federal high court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday April 9, 2025 given an interim injunction restraining the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, their servants, agents, privies, from demolishing the estate’s Boat ClubHouse situated at OT QC in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos.

The ministry wants to demolish the property in order to pave way for the construction of an access road to an upcoming estate to be known as Apple Island.

The court injunction is coming from case which the Incorporated Trustees of Banana Island Property Owners/Residents Association instituted against the Attorney-General Of The Federation, Minister of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, praying the court to stop them from carrying out the demolition of the property.

The court, upon reading through the Motion, it’s Affidavit of 25 paragraphs deposed to by Chief Ugo Nnabuife, Nigerian Citizen and a Legal Practitioner of P35, 219 Close, Banana Island, Ikoyi Lagos State with attached exhibits and a written address signed by Okechukwu Tagboo Dike Esq, all filed at the Court Registry Ikoyi, Lagos, ordered the defendants to stay action.

The order restrains the AGF, the minister, the ministry, their servants, agents or privies from taking any action in respect of the Plaintiffs’ Boat ClubHouse, as stated in their letter of 28/02/2025, pending the determination of the motion on notice.

The court also issued an interim order that the status quo in respect of the Plaintiffs’ Boat ClubHouse, as at the date this action was instituted, be maintained by parties to this suit, pending the determination of the motion on notice.