The Eye Place is an optometry practice and optical boutique in Abuja, with full-service branches in Utako and Maitama.
We take the time an eye examination needs, we fit frames that hold a face, and we tell you plainly what we found. Where something needs an ophthalmologist, we refer.
Where something needs an ophthalmologist, we refer.
An eye exam here takes the time it needs. We look past what you can read on a screen. Glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and cataract are checked in the same sitting, because the changes that matter rarely announce themselves.
Frames are chosen for character, not category. How they sit after eight hours, how the edge behaves with your prescription. You are not choosing from everything. You are choosing from what we would wear.
Children rarely say their vision is blurred. They assume everyone sees what they see. We test for what a child cannot report, and fit frames chosen to survive a school term.
Dry eye and conjunctivitis are managed here. Age-related macular degeneration is found here, then referred. Knowing which is which is the work. Come in when something changes.
Screens do not damage your eyes. They make you blink less and hold focus at one distance for hours, often at a range your glasses were never made for. That is what we correct.
A dark lens is not a protective one. Without a UV filter, tint only opens the pupil and lets more through. Choose them for how they look. We will make sure they also do the work.
Most Nigerian workforces have never had a professional eye examination. In screen-heavy roles that shows up as slower work, more errors, and headaches nobody traces back to vision. We screen and dispense on site. One budget line.
Face shape is the easy part, and every optical shop says the same thing about it. What changes how frames look on you is your prescription. How it sits in the lens, where the weight falls. We style for both.
The Eye Place is accredited under Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) framework and works with a range of Health Maintenance Organisations. Cover applies to eye examinations and prescription eyewear for enrolled clients at both branches.
Utako branch
Alibro Atrium Plaza, Utako District
Maitama branch
Full service. Same standard of care.
Allow 45 minutes. The examination takes the time it needs, and frame selection follows it rather than being rushed alongside it.
Yes. The Eye Place works with a range of Health Maintenance Organisations at both the Utako and Maitama branches.
Before school age, and then at regular intervals. Children do not report blurred vision because they assume everyone sees what they see.
Where the diary allows. We hold extended hours Monday to Friday and see clients on Saturdays.
