Lagos International Airport

Lagos International Airport and the Lagos Oil Refinery are both coming soon. Neither site takes workers or passengers yet.

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Coming soon

Lagos International Airport

Ikeja

Five gates, a brand-new runway, and your way out to AbujaLife and PHLife. The cranes are working day and night.

  • 5 gates for the big jets
  • Fly to Abuja and Port Harcourt: AbujaLife and PHLife are coming
  • Hundreds of airport jobs
  • Pilot
  • Cabin Crew
  • Air Traffic Controller
  • Ground Crew
  • Airport Security
  • Check-in Agent

Coming soon

Lagos Oil Refinery

Apapa

Tanks, towers and pipes going up by the water. Lagos is about to refine its own fuel.

  • Fuel made right here in Lagos
  • Good-paying oil and gas jobs
  • Shifts for engineers, operators and drivers
  • Petroleum Engineer
  • Plant Operator
  • Safety Officer
  • Tanker Driver
  • Lab Technician

What coming soon means for a player

The airport is planned for Ikeja. Five gates, a new runway, and links toward AbujaLife and PHLife are the promise, and the cranes work day and night. AbujaLife and PHLife are later flights, not cities you can play beside Lagos today. Port Harcourt is a closed city, and that is separate from the airport still being built.

The refinery is planned for Apapa. Tanks, towers, and pipes are going up by the water so Lagos can refine its own fuel. That future does not change today's fare. Fuel scarcity is still a switch on the move page, at 1.5 when you turn it on, and it is not replaced by a refinery that has not opened.

The coming payroll is not open yet. Pilots, cabin crew, controllers, ground crew, security, and check-in agents belong to the airport. Petroleum engineers, plant operators, safety officers, tanker drivers, and lab technicians belong to the refinery. Do not add them to the 22 open ladders.

What you can do instead

Aviation as an open ladder is the crew bus from Eko Hotels, from cabin crew to chief pilot. That job exists now. It is not a shift inside the unfinished airport. Oil and Gas exists as a ladder too, but its workplace is the Trans-Amadi base in Port Harcourt, and that city is closed.

Intercity travel that you can price today is the Air Peace flight at 90000 naira for about an hour, with aviation staff on half fare, and the GIG night bus at 25000 naira for about three hours. Both quote 440 km. They are fixed tickets, not a danfo formula, and they do not board at the coming-soon terminal.

Keep the open aviation ladder separate from the closed terminal. Cabin crew at Eko Hotels is a job you can take today. Pilot as an airport role is a name on a coming-soon card. The same split applies to oil: a refinery role is not the Trans-Amadi ladder, and Trans-Amadi itself is in a closed city.

Intercity tickets you can price now still do not board at the new gates. Air Peace at 90000 and the GIG bus at 25000 are the priced trips over those 440 km. Price them on the move page. The cranes stay on the coming-soon cards.

Coming soon is a status, not a date you can book. No shift starts, no gate opens, and no grocery or fare changes because the refinery hopes to make fuel in Lagos. Scarcity remains a switch you control on the fare calculator.

The airport card in Ikeja talks about five gates, a new runway, flights toward AbujaLife and PHLife, and hundreds of airport jobs. Those are promises on a coming-soon card. Cabin crew, already a job, is the aviation ladder at Eko Hotels, from 19000 a shift, and it wants fitness level 3. A pilot line on the airport card is not that ladder and it does not pay that 19000.

The refinery card in Apapa talks about fuel made in Lagos and shifts for engineers, operators, and drivers. The role names under it are petroleum engineer, plant operator, safety officer, tanker driver, and lab technician. None of those names is the Oil and Gas ladder, which starts at 20000 and sits at the Trans-Amadi base while Port Harcourt stays closed.

Read the status before you trust a promise. Coming soon on both cards means the cranes and the tanks are scenery. You cannot clock in, you cannot board, and you cannot buy the local fuel the refinery is still promising. The scarcity switch on the fare calculator is the fuel rule that exists today, at 1.5 only when you tick it.

Check-in agent, ground crew, airport security, and air traffic controller remain preview titles on the Ikeja card. They do not add four jobs to the 22 open ladders. Those names are the payroll you will meet later, so spend your first shift on a ladder whose workplace is already open in Lagos.

Diagram of airport and refinery roles that are not open yet
Roles at the airport and the refinery while both stay coming soon.
Diagram comparing Nepo Baby and LAPO Baby starts
The two origins you pick before either project opens.

Player questions

Can I work a refinery shift yet?
No. The Lagos Oil Refinery is marked coming soon in Apapa. Its roles are a preview of the payroll, not a ladder you can clock into. The open Oil and Gas career is a different workplace, the Trans-Amadi base, and those shifts are in Port Harcourt while that city is closed. Until either the refinery opens or Port Harcourt opens, you cannot take an oil shift at all.
Does the airport let me fly to AbujaLife today?
No. The airport promises a way out to AbujaLife and PHLife, and those destinations are still coming. The terminal itself is coming soon, with cranes still on the runway plan. The Air Peace fare of 90000 naira is the intercity ticket you can buy now. It is not a boarding pass from the unfinished Ikeja terminal, and it does not open the new gates.