Lagos

[ lah-gohs, ley-gos ]

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Lagos

/ ˈleɪɡɒs /

the former capital and chief port of Nigeria, on the Bight of Benin: first settled in the sixteenth century; a slave market until the nineteenth century; ceded to Britain (1861); university (1962). Pop: 11 135 000 (2005 est)
a state of SW Nigeria. Capital: Ikeja. Pop: 9 013 534 (2006). Area: 3345 sq km (1292 sq miles)

Lagos

Capital of Nigeria and largest city in the country, located in the southwest corner of Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean ; Nigeria's economic center and chief port.

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In August 2018, Nigerian police raided a birthday party in Lagos, arresting 57 men.

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The trend has been influenced by the decision last year by authorities to ban motorcycle taxis, known as okadas, in Lagos.

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He discovered superheroes from “Transformers” and “X-Men” cartoons while growing up in Lagos, Nigeria.

Olundegun and her team also rented a bus to help pick up food from donors around Lagos and deliver it to protest sites.

You wake up in the morning, and you make your plan, and that’s when Lagos traffic decides to act up.

On July 25, five days after he landed in Lagos, Sawyer died.

Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, has shut down and quarantined the hospital in Lagos where the man died.

Nigerians have become desensitized to suffering, I was repeatedly told during my time in Lagos.

I grew up in Nsukka, a university town that was much slower than Lagos.

I always feel that one can find anything at all in Lagos, you need only to know where to look.

We ought to have run out a steamer to Lagos or one of those West Coast places and done it from there.

My mother was an upright woman; her maiden name was Mary Lago, of the family of the Lagos, and of the stock of the martyrs.

Wydah, the great slave-port of Dahomi, is but 70 or 80 miles west of Lagos.

Lagos is an exception to this, the market commencing early in the day, and closing at night.

Forbin was wounded at the battle of La Hogue, and greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Lagos.

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