Ifako

Ifako houses a lot of small-scale shopping centres, including laundry shops, recreational centres, markets, and a host of others where residents can easily access household and food items for personal consumption and events.

It also houses the popular Ifako Playground, now known as the Araromi Youth Development Centre, where residents and other community members troop in mostly during weekends for open-field leisure activities.

Ifako has a lot of food centres and restaurants, like Orange Buka, Barbeque Bistro Gbagada, Plush Spicy, and Isaac Foods, amongst others.

Residents benefit from Ifako's abundance of small businesses and shopping centres because a greater proportion of their needs are met without the stress of travelling to a more distant location.

Due to the relatively high number of people living in Ifako, generally, commercial activities are the order of the day as individuals are seen carrying out their daily operations. However, in residential areas of Ifako that have little commercial activity, there are fewer human interactions during the day. People heading out for their daily activities, schoolchildren alike, make up the influx of movements in Ifako in the early hours of the morning, which reduces in the midhours of the day until a rise in the evenings, just like the usual hustle and bustle in Lagos State. Traffic flow is quite free,and all routes leading to major roads are mostly occupied by commercial motorists and bike users. Holistically, Ifako thrives in the hustle and bustle of a commercial Lagos.

In the commercial parts of Ifako, you will find the Mota Shopping Complex, which has a number of lock up stalls where small business owners carry out their business operations. This shopping mall is situated on Ilawe Street, which is one of the oldest mall in the area. Although it is not too enormous in size, it houses quite a number of businesses. Seen along the roads in Ifako are other similar shops in different buildings, some are kiosks while some are mini marts or supermarkets. All of these amount to part of the busyness that keeps Ifako bubbly. Residents can visit the markets or connect to the popular Shop City Supermarket, Favored Mart etc. Similarly, entertainers can also visit Fivemics Empire - a motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing company.

Living in Ifako, you need not worry about which school to send your children or wards as there are so many schools situated in this large environment. You can find both government-owned and private schools like Oke Ifako Primary School, Ifako Comprehensive High School, and Pelade School. Aquila Nidus Montessori School, TopFlight College, and Tots N' Cots School, among others.

Visiting any of the government-owned schools like Oke Ifako Primary School, which was established on October 5th, 1981, you will be surprised to see how clean, coordinated, and beautiful the school appears. This also goes with Ifako Comprehensive High School, which was founded on January 1, 1970.

However, parents or guardians who choose to enrol their children in private schools have a wide number of schools to pick from. For example, Tots N' Cots School, which was founded on January 23rd, 2010, to cater for your children's primary education, TopFlight College is also exemplified by providing quality post-primary education to children and wards in the Ifako environment.

There are other schools that have not been mentioned but that also offer quality education in Ifako Gbagada.