Mushin
Mushin is a Local Government Area in Lagos, Nigeria.
Mushin is a Local Government Area in Lagos, Nigeria. It is located 10 km north of the city core, adjacent to the main road to Ikeja, and is largely a congested residential area with inadequate sanitation and low-quality housing. It had 633,009 inhabitants at the 2006 Census. It is also where a lot of A-list talents have risen from, artists such as Wande Coal.
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Worth seeing in and around Mushin
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Lagos
The University of Lagos is a public research university located in Lagos, Nigeria, which was founded in 1962. UNILAG is one of the first generation universities in Nigeria and is ranked among the top universities in Africa in major education publications.
4.4 km · public research university in Lagos, Nigeria · Wikipedia - 02Lagos National Stadium
The Lagos National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria. It comprises an Olympic-size swimming arena and a multipurpose arena used for athletics, rugby union, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, wrestling and boxing matches.
4.4 km · multi-purpose stadium in Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria · Wikipedia - 03Teslim Balogun Stadium
The Teslim Balogun Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of First Bank FC. The Nigeria national rugby league team also uses the venue.
4 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 04Ilojo Bar
Ilojo Bar, also called Olaiya House or Casa da Fernandez, was a Brazilian-styled historic building located near Tinubu Square in Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria. According to some sources, the building was originally built as a bar and restaurant in 1855 by the Fernandez family, who employed returning ex-slaves from Brazil and Cuba that had mastered the art of building while in the Western Hemisphere.
4.3 km · national monument of Nigeria in Lagos Island · Wikipedia - 05Delta State University, Abraka
The Delta State University, Abraka - popularly known as DELSU - is a State government-owned university in Nigeria with the main campus located at Abraka, Delta State and its sub-campus at Oleh. The Oleh campus was established with the 1995 Amended Edict.
4.4 km · public state-owned university in Abraka town, in Ethiope-East Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria · Wikipedia - 06Jaekel House
The Jaekel House is a 2-storey colonial mansion in Ebute Metta, Lagos, Nigeria. The house was built in 1898 on a large expanse of landscaped land and named after the late Francis Jaekel OBE, a former superintendent of the Nigerian Railway Corporation who retired in the 1970s after almost three decades of active service.
5.8 km · a colonial mansion in Nigeria, now a cultural and historical site. · Wikipedia - 07Ikeja City Mall
The Ikeja City Mall is located at Alausa in Ikeja, Lagos State. It is the first of its kind on the Mainland of Metropolitan Lagos.
5.9 km · shopping mall in Lagos State, Nigeria · Wikipedia - 08University of Lagos Cricket Oval
The University of Lagos Cricket Oval is a cricket ground, in Akoka, Nigeria. In the year 2020, the Vice Chancellor of the University Prof.
5.2 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia - 09Makoko Floating School
The Makoko Floating School was a building project of Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria which was developed in 2013. The school was abandoned in March 2016 over safety concerns and collapsed in a storm in June 2016.
5.8 km · building project in Nigeria · Wikipedia - 10Tejuosho Market
Tejuosho Market is an ultramodern market located along the Ojuelegba-Itire Road in Yaba, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. The market is divided into two phases.
3.5 km · Retail market in Lagos, Nigeria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mushin
- Airports
- Murtala Muhammed (LOS), 6 km · Cotonou Cadjehoun (COO), 108 km · Lomé–Tokoin (LFW), 235 km
- Stations
- Murtala Muhammed International Airport, 5.8 km · Yaba Bus Terminal, 3.4 km
- Ilorin/Ogbomosho → Mushin205 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ₦13,000–17,350
- Asaba → Mushin375 km · quickest by air, 4h 2m · ₦79,650–123,550
- Port Harcourt → Mushin449 km · quickest by air, 5h 7m · ₦99,070–153,650
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mushin
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mushin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPrize ranges from ₦100 to 300 per drop but charter is higher
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Next door to Mushin
Mushin is 7 km from Ikeja, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Makokoinformal settlement in Lagos State, Nigeria5.9 km
- Kosofelocal government area and town in Lagos State, Nigeria4.6 km
- Shomolulocal government area of Nigeria3.8 km
- Lagos MainlandLGA and suburb in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria4.4 km
- Oshodi-IsoloLGA and suburb in Lagos State, Nigeria3.4 km
- Ojuelegba, Lagossuburb in Lagos3.5 km