LAGOS, NIGERIA WHAT IS THERE TO LOVE?
Uo one knows when the last person leaves the street – that’s if the street could even remain empty. Unlike several other cities across Africa where laws restrict movement and business activities to specific hours, no one can tell Lagosians (as residents of Lagos are popularly called) when not to move around. For West Africans, Lagos is Dubai, London, New York and Mecca. It is an African city with the Golden Fleece, the place where all dreams could come true. The city attracts skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers from across West Africa and beyond due to the large number of companies, organisations and multinationals that are in the city. It is therefore not inappropriate to call Lagos the best city in West Africa.
What did Lagos do right, what can other cities learn from it, and what challenges should the state prepare for as it contends with overpopulation? Lagos’ development started when it became Nigeria’s federal capital city. Like almost all capital cities in West
