WHEN Babatunde Fashola goes to the theatre in Lagos, his entrance usually sparks more applause than the cast’s final bow. He has been something of a hero in Nigeria’s business capital since becoming its governor in 2007. Last month he was reelected with 81% of the vote, having attempted to tame the unruly metropolis.

Lagos, which vies with Cairo for the title of Africa’s most populous city, exhausts even Nigerians, famed for their energy and entrepreneurial zeal. To ease their lives, Mr Fashola has cleared ad hoc markets that used to block streets and cause endless gridlock, limiting some businessmen to one meeting a day. Bus routes have been set up and kamikaze motorcycle-taxi riders forced to wear helmets. The governor has employed local toughs, known as “area boys”, as street sweepers and traffic cops. Lagosians say their coastal city seems safer, with fewer armed robbers zipping along in boats across its lagoons. . .

http://www.economist.com/node/18652563

He's indeed an epitome of progressive ideas which sadly, are lacking throughout the fraudulent geographical landscape called Nigeria.

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Very well said.

I am glad Fashola and I speak the same language; after all, WE THA BEST

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And what has your speaking the same language with him, got to do with anything or you simply want to spew one of your trademark ethnocentric garbage?