Lagos has been nominated for the Most Innovative City of the Year award. The city has been nominated with 24 other global cities.

South Africa's Cape Town is the only other African city on the list.

Other nominated cities are London, Bratislava, Hong Kong, New York, Hamburg, Toronto, Copenhagen, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Shenzhen, Vienna, Medellin, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Chicago, Vancouver, Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle, Raleigh-Durham, Melbourne and Boston.

According to the organizers, the competition tests the ability of the nominated cities to re-imagine themselves. The 25 cities have succeeded in exhibiting a sustained and growing commitment to development.

The competition is sponsored by Citigroup in partnership with the Urban Land Institute. It recognises places where people, passion and ingenuity are shaping efforts to build sustainable and liveable cities.

“The Urban Land Institute used selected criteria to identify the initial 200 most innovative cities. The list was then narrowed down to 25 cities after an online vote by the general public and readers of the Wall Street Journal,” De Lille said.

The competition is now in its second phase, in which all 25 cities compete for a place on the shortlist of three finalists. The three cities with the highest number of votes will be announced at the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator of the Year Awards on October 18.

Thereafter, voting will resume until December 31, 2012 to determine the winning city, which will be announced in the Wall Street Journal Magazine early next year.

People can cast their votes online at www.wsj.com/ad/cityoftheyear


http://businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/45642-lagos-nominated-for-most-innovative-city-of-the-year-award

Let's hear some good news once in a while.

Nice one though there are still rooms for improvement. I think this fashola guy has got some good initiatives for real...

ALUU is not on the list?

What of Aba?

IS LAG REALLY A CITY OR A MET?

EKO ONI BAJE OOOOOO

ichommy: ALUU is not on the list?

BAD MEMORIES

This is good news.

There is a city called Lagos in Portugal, after which Lagos in Nigeria was named. Question: which city was nominated, Lagos in Portugal, abi Lagos Nigeria? The city of overflowing gutters, uncontrollable agberos and danfo drivers, no public transport, unlicensed street markets, slums and filth? And ACN?

I really don't see the basis for calling Lagos the most innovative city...what does that even mean?

LAGOS won't be a mega city as per infrastructure but will have a mega city if eko atlantic is completed. The entire lagos is damaged beyond repairs not because of any lazity on the part of the Government but due to human problems like poverty and illiteracy being at the forefront of this challenge. For example it is pitiable to note that Makoko is a big stain on the reemerging new face of Lagos initiated by Gov. Fashola. People are not responsive to development, I see a lot of the beautification efforts of this present administration become a refuse dump, some people have total destroyed the beautification barricades, dumping of refuse into drainages, slum areas and filty urban squalor, people are littering the streets with dirt and don't participate in environmental sanitation of their houses, people still building pit latrine in the 21st century. Lagos problem is beyond a responsive Government trying to develop the State. P O V E R T Y is too much. Let's accept our fate that Lagos won't be a mega city. All the infrastructure are already delabilitated, and need rehablitation

FASHOLA is working LAGOS is MOVING

May God bless Fashola and ACN for putting my city on the map.

Haters go and die.

Andy-baby:
LAGOS won't be completely be a mega city as per infrastructure but will have a mega city if eko atlantic is completed. The entire lagos is damaged beyond repairs not because of any lazity on the part of the Government but due to human problems like poverty and illiteracy being at the forefront of this challenge. For example it is pitiable to note that Makoko is a big stain on the reemerging new face of Lagos initiated by Gov. Fashola

Hence Makoko was demolished.

people like you will cry foul if the slums and unlicensed street markets (which are illegal by the way) are demolished by the same govt, remember Makoko??

Cyberknight: There is a city called Lagos in Portugal, after which Lagos in Nigeria was named. Question: which city was nominated, Lagos in Portugal, abi Lagos Nigeria? The city of overflowing gutters, uncontrollable agberos and danfo drivers, no public transport, unlicensed street markets, slums and filth? And ACN?

Lagos should eventually make the top 3, I hope!

Cyberknight: There is a city called Lagos in Portugal, after which Lagos in Nigeria was named. Question: which city was nominated, Lagos in Portugal, abi Lagos Nigeria? The city of overflowing gutters, uncontrollable agberos and danfo drivers, no public transport, unlicensed street markets, slums and filth? And ACN?

bad belle, go hold high tension wire

afam4eva: I really don't see the basis for calling Lagos the most innovative city...what does that even mean?

go thru d the post

Which Lagos ?
The one in Nigeria?

Eze Promoe: What of Aba?

Eze Promoe: What of Aba?

Ask google or wikipedia...
Aba ko,okija ni.(idiota)

Lagos,one of the worst cities to live in.
Very funny.

afam4eva: I really don't see the basis for calling Lagos the most innovative city...what does that even mean?

If u don't know what it means how can you see the basis?

gidiMonsta:

If u don't know what it means how can you see the basis?

I'm thinking there's a new meaning of "Innovative", because Lagos does not it into the definition that i know.

Cyberknight: There is a city called Lagos in Portugal, after which Lagos in Nigeria was named. Question: which city was nominated, Lagos in Portugal, abi Lagos Nigeria? The city of overflowing gutters, uncontrollable agberos and danfo drivers, no public transport, unlicensed street markets, slums and filth? And ACN?

ODE! Oponu!! Or-lor-porlor dudu.

Did u read the post well at all?

it says "South Africa's Cape Town is the only [size=15pt]other African[/size] city on the list."

Please read well next time, b4 commenting F.O.O.L ishly

Cyberknight: There is a city called Lagos in Portugal, after which Lagos in Nigeria was named. Question: which city was nominated, Lagos in Portugal, abi Lagos Nigeria? The city of overflowing gutters, uncontrollable agberos and danfo drivers, no public transport, unlicensed street markets, slums and filth? And ACN?

Stop been a hater and learn how to appreciate good things once in a while. We all know that good news is hard to come by in our nation, so it's important we embrace and project the good aspects of our society. I'm not a lagosian, but am happy for the city. Lagos is a very innovative city, abi, you haven't heard of the young 26 years old chap who dropped out of school and now runs his very own 1 billion naira ICT firm. Besides when a report says lagos, it's always lagos, nigeria. The lagos in portugal is a small town and can never be compared to lagos nigeria.

N.b, it's important we all be the change we want to see as our leaders are a reflection of our society.

afam4eva:
I'm thinking there's a new meaning of "Innovative", because Lagos does not it into the definition that i know.

innovate  (ˈɪnəˌveɪt) 
 
— vb
to invent or begin to apply (methods, ideas, etc)
 
[C16: from Latin innovāre  to renew, from in- ² + novāre  to make new, from novus  new]
 
innovative
 
— adj

Do you live in Lagos?

gidiMonsta:

innovate  (ˈɪnəˌveɪt) 
 
— vb
to invent or begin to apply (methods, ideas, etc)
 
[C16: from Latin innovāre  to renew, from in- ² + novāre  to make new, from novus  new]
 
innovative
 
— adj

Do you live in Lagos?

Maybe you should start by telling us some of the innovations that Lagos has made that qualifies them for this award.

Btw, i live in LasGidi.

As usual, them bloooody fools and haters will never be happy to hear any good news coming from Nigeria.
I wonder what you animals are still doing in Nigeria. Pack your bags and relocate to Togo or even Rwanda, we will never miss loosers likle you.
I am neither Yorobah nor ACN member, but honestly Fashola has done very well for Lagos and I give it to him. I praise people when they are praise worthy. Those who do not like this kind of news should go hug the next transformer.

Wereh kpe:

ODE! Oponu!! Or-lor-porlor dudu.

Did u read the post well at all?

it says "South Africa's Cape Town is the only [size=15pt]other African[/size] city on the list."

Please read well next time, b4 commenting F.O.O.L ishly

@cyberknight was just being cynical

Eze Promoe: What of Aba?

Aba ke? You must be Mr Ibu. The cities listed above in the article is not just based on innovation alone... Environment, infastructures n development are considered also.
Aba is the dirties city in the world, no good air to breath in there.

dridowu: EKO ONI BAJE OOOOOO

EKO GO BETA OOOOOO

Ricky_Ross: As usual, them bloooody fools and haters will never be happy to hear any good news coming from Nigeria.
I wonder what you animals are still doing in Nigeria. Pack your bags and relocate to Togo or even Rwanda, we will never miss loosers likle you.
I am neither Yorobah nor ACN member, but honestly Fashola has done very well for Lagos and I give it to him. I praise people when they are praise worthy. Those who do not like this kind of news should go hug the next transformer.

Thank you oh !! Innovation , as one example of many, would be Lagos gaining a new Modern rail system that is the only one of its kind in West Africa. Man tire for the negativity of Nigerians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Light_Rail

Lagos Light Rail is a light rail system being developed in Lagos, Nigeria. The system (the first modern rail-based public transport in Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa) is being sponsored by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and is envisioned to consist eventually of seven lines.[1] The railway equipment including electric power, signalling, rolling stock, and fare collection equipment will be provided by the private sector under a Concession Contract. LAMATA is responsible for policy direction, regulation, and infrastructure for the network.[2] The concessionaire will generate its own dedicated electricity.[3]