Recently, as I was driving through the crowded streets of Victoria Island, I encountered a young man selling magazines.

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"It's very dangerous, " says Sam Kabonge, a fisherman from the Bugala island in Lake Victoria, a tropical patch of land boasting sandy shores and lush forests.

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The design of the new observatory is based in part on two larger networks of seafloor monitors off the coast of British Columbia's Victoria Island, named VENUS and NEPTUNE.

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Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.

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The state government confesses it can no longer supply potable water free of charge, and has introduced monthly fixed charges - but only residents in affluent neighbourhoods, like Victoria Island, Lekki and Ikoyi, pay.

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Lagos, Nigeria It was past 12 noon on a hot Thursday afternoon, and I hurried to the Mike Adenuga Towers- the imposing 13-story skyscraper located at the elite Victoria Island area of Lagos.

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But perhaps the most impressive project for the Lagos of tomorrow is no other than the Eko Atlantic, a pioneering residential and business development located on the Victoria Island, along its upmarket Bar Beach coastline.

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Among other antics, he sent taunting telegrams to Britain's queen, declared himself king of Scotland, challenged the Tanzanian president to a boxing match, and staged a mock invasion of South Africa on an island in Lake Victoria.

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The torch will arrive in the island at about 12:00 BST and travel along Victoria Avenue to Weighbridge Place in St Helier.

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