Lagos initially emerged as a port city that originated on a collection of islands, which are contained in the present day Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Lagos Island, Eti-Osa, Amuwo-Odofin and Apapa. The islands are separated by creeks, fringing the southwest mouth of Lagos Lagoon, while being protected from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier islands and long sand spits such as Bar Beach, which stretch up to 100 km (62 mi) east and west of the mouth. Due to rapid urbanization, the city expanded to the west of the lagoon to include areas in the present day Lagos Mainland, Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Surulere. This led to the classification of Lagos into two main areas: the Island, which was the initial city of Lagos, before it expanded into the area known as the Mainland.[25] This city area was governed directly by the Federal Government through the Lagos City Council, until the creation of Lagos State in 1967, which led to the splitting of Lagos city into the present day seven Local Government Areas (LGAs), and an addition of other towns (which now make up 13 LGAs) from the then Western Region to form the state.[26]

Lagos, the capital of Nigeria since its amalgamation in 1914, went on to become the capital of Lagos State after its creation. However, the state capital was later moved to Ikeja in 1976, and the federal capital moved to Abuja in 1991. Even though Lagos is still widely referred to as a city, the present day Lagos, also known as "Metropolitan Lagos", and officially as "Lagos Metropolitan Area"[27][28][29] is an urban agglomeration or conurbation,[30] consisting of 16 LGAs including Ikeja, the state capital of Lagos State.[2][31] This conurbation makes up 37% of Lagos State's total land area, but houses about 85% of the state's total population.[2][26][32]

The exact population of Metropolitan Lagos is disputed. In the 2006 federal census data, the conurbation had a population of about 8 million people.[33] However, the figure was disputed by the Lagos State Government, which later released its own population data, putting the population of Lagos Metropolitan Area at approximately 16 million.[note 3] As of 2015, unofficial figures put the population of "Greater Metropolitan Lagos", which includes Lagos and its surrounding metro area, extending as far as into Ogun State, at approximately 21



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God bless The Center of Excellence.

CoronaVirusPro:
God bless The Center of Excellence.

Amen

Chai, i thought i was Festus the son of commentus

Eko oni baje

This is no beauty
The beauty of a city is its people
I was driving a few days back at night I was scared.
Everywhere scanty.
I miss the sound of buy gala
Pure water tutu Re
Cold water.
Sare wole Oshodi oooooo
I miss my yellow fever lady at Iyana Ipaja junction
That lady Yansh dey make my car auto u turn.
I miss Gbaassss! You Don hit my car, oyinbo repete .
I swear I miss holdup join. Na there I dey reason before I reach house.
And I miss My various hotels and beer joints, La Silva, Hollysee, de dems, the place, yk gardens, 6pm,iya orobo, toyin olobe, iya junction.
I miss Lagos.

For those Christians who wants to know how life after rapture will be... .Here it is.

I've been waiting for this thread. Great pictures!

stop showing me the beauty of any place. show me the end of this virus. am realy tired. first quarter of the year has gone and i havnt achieved 5% of my goals for dis year.

Shibaraba:
This is no beauty

beauty with hungry inhabitants.

i'd rather stay in a slum with a full tommy than stay in a palace with an dmpty tommy

Seeing Lagos like this makes me so sad on how Warri in Delta State has fallen.

If not for the war between urhobos, itsekiri and ijaws in Delta State.

Warri precisely will now be the Lagos island of delta state.

The numbers of companies that left Warri to Lagos and porthacourt and Abuja during the war were more than 100.

So many national and international company left Warri and now Delta State and Warri in particular has lost her glory.

The Warri i knew when i was still a kid was 1000 times more beautiful and more modern than the Warri of today.

I'm sure by now if not for the war, Delta State and Warri in particular would have released the population burden from Lagos.

This is what greed, ignorance, bad government and uneducated citizens can do to a city.

It's even funny looking at the fact that the numbers of white people and Asians living in Warri before the war were even more than any state in Nigeria.

When i was a kid, seeing white men and women in Warri was very normal, we see them on traffic, in churches, in the mall, even some came to watch us play Football every afternoon.

I think we as deltans have to go back to the drawing board.

As for the federal government, i think restructuring is what Nigeria needs now.

Let each state start operating like mini country Just like the US of A and in not more than 5 years time, the population of Lagos will reduce by nearly half.

Because by the time each states start developing and building of skyscrapers, investors will come in.

Lots of people don't actually know they skyscrapers are easy to build.

Let the security system be re branded and let us have our state Police and local Police.

By the order of the Peaky blinders.

GreatResearcher:
beauty with hungry inhabitants.

i'd rather stay in a slum with a full tommy than stay in a palace with an dmpty tommy

POVERTY dey Naija shaaa
While Driving, I once gave a MOBILE POLICE OFFICER #200, Men you need to see how he saluted me.
I was like .
I had to invite him over for Dinner in my Apartment with his Family.

Softapplez:
Seeing Lagos like this makes me so sad on how Warri in Delta State has fallen.

If not for the war between urhobos, itsekiri and ijaws in Delta State.

Warri precisely will now be the Lagos island of delta state.

The numbers of companies that left Warri to Lagos and porthacourt and Abuja during the war were more than 100.

So many national and international company left Warri and now Delta State and Warri in particular has lost her glory.

The Warri i knew when i was still a kid was 1000 times more beautiful and more modern than the Warri of today.

I'm sure by now if not for the war, Delta State and Warri in particular would have released the population burden from Lagos.

This is what greed, ignorance, bad government and uneducated citizens can do to a city.

It's even funny looking at the fact that the numbers of white people and Asians living in Warri before the war were even more than any state in Nigeria.

When i was a kid, seeing white men and women in Warri was very normal, we see them on traffic, in churches, in the mall, even some came to watch us play Football every afternoon.

I think we as deltans have to go back to the drawing board.

As for the federal government, i think restructuring is what Nigeria needs now.

Let each state start operating like mini country Just like the US of A and in not more than 5 years time, the population of Lagos will reduce by nearly half.

Because by the time each states start developing and building of skyscrapers, investors will come in.

Lots of people don't actually know they skyscrapers are easy to build.

Let the security system be re branded and let us have our state Police and local Police.

By the order of the Peaky blinders.

Warri, the only player that put the main player on the substitute bench..

Softapplez:
Seeing Lagos like this makes me so sad on how Warri in Delta State has fallen.

If not for the war between urhobos, itsekiri and ijaws in Delta State.

Warri precisely will now be the Lagos island of delta state.

The numbers of companies that left Warri to Lagos and porthacourt and Abuja during the war were more than 100.

So many national and international company left Warri and now Delta State and Warri in particular has lost her glory.

The Warri i knew when i was still a kid was 1000 times more beautiful and more modern than the Warri of today.

I'm sure by now if not for the war, Delta State and Warri in particular would have released the population burden from Lagos.

This is what greed, ignorance, bad government and uneducated citizens can do to a city.

It's even funny looking at the fact that the numbers of white people and Asians living in Warri before the war were even more than any state in Nigeria.

When i was a kid, seeing white men and women in Warri was very normal, we see them on traffic, in churches, in the mall, even some came to watch us play Football every afternoon.

I think we as deltans have to go back to the drawing board.

As for the federal government, i think restructuring is what Nigeria needs now.

Let each state start operating like mini country Just like the US of A and in not more than 5 years time, the population of Lagos will reduce by nearly half.

Because by the time each states start developing and building of skyscrapers, investors will come in.

Lots of people don't actually know they skyscrapers are easy to build.

Let the security system be re branded and let us have our state Police and local Police.

By the order of the Peaky blinders.

Stories that touch. This thread is about Lagos though........

Very beautiful with a drastic cut in the CO2 emissions.

Sotey everywhere don dey green sef.

Just the first day of normal resumption of daily hustle you no go recognize any of these places again. Dem go don use leg and shiit design those green areas.

Shibaraba:
This is no beauty
The beauty of a city is its people
I was driving a few days back at night I was scared.
Everywhere scanty.
I miss the sound of buy gala
Pure water tutu Re
Cold water.
Sare wole Oshodi oooooo
I miss my yellow fever lady at Iyana Ipaja junction
That lady Yansh dey make my car auto u turn.
I miss Gbaassss! You Don hit my car, oyinbo repete .
I swear I miss holdup join. Na there I dey reason before I reach house.
And I miss My various hotels and beer joints, La Silva, Hollysee, de dems, the place, yk gardens, 6pm,iya orobo, toyin olobe, iya junction.
I miss Lagos.

For those Christians who wants to know how life after rapture will be... .Here it is.

You no call solochuks lol

Softapplez:
Seeing Lagos like this makes me so sad on how Warri in Delta State has fallen.

If not for the war between urhobos, itsekiri and ijaws in Delta State.

Warri precisely will now be the Lagos island of delta state.

The numbers of companies that left Warri to Lagos and porthacourt and Abuja during the war were more than 100.

So many national and international company left Warri and now Delta State and Warri in particular has lost her glory.

The Warri i knew when i was still a kid was 1000 times more beautiful and more modern than the Warri of today.

I'm sure by now if not for the war, Delta State and Warri in particular would have released the population burden from Lagos.

This is what greed, ignorance, bad government and uneducated citizens can do to a city.

It's even funny looking at the fact that the numbers of white people and Asians living in Warri before the war were even more than any state in Nigeria.

When i was a kid, seeing white men and women in Warri was very normal, we see them on traffic, in churches, in the mall, even some came to watch us play Football every afternoon.

I think we as deltans have to go back to the drawing board.

As for the federal government, i think restructuring is what Nigeria needs now.

Let each state start operating like mini country Just like the US of A and in not more than 5 years time, the population of Lagos will reduce by nearly half.

Because by the time each states start developing and building of skyscrapers, investors will come in.

Lots of people don't actually know they skyscrapers are easy to build.

Let the security system be re branded and let us have our state Police and local Police.

By the order of the Peaky blinders.

the problem is disunity and bad leadership.

Delta State is like the richest state in Nigeria with less population but nothing to show for it.

It's like these three states are cursed

Delta
River
Bayelsa

They own Nigeria and has small population but their own people loot it and give the rest to the northern region.

Such a shame

It is indeed about time we gave the earth this break. She truly deserves it. I can imagine how happy she would be without us farting into her face through our vehicles, making her sick with ozone layer depletion, greenhouse gases, acid rain and global warming.

The earth has given us so much since we got here, and by my estimation, this is the first time we are giving her back, even though it is for selfish reasons.

Softapplez:
Seeing Lagos like this makes me so sad on how Warri in Delta State has fallen.



Because by the time each states start developing and building of skyscrapers, investors will come in.

Lots of people don't actually know they skyscrapers are easy to build.

Let the security system be re branded and let us have our state Police and local Police.

By the order of the Peaky blinders.

Niger Delta leaders are the worst in Nigeria. So much money at their disposal and nothing to show for it.

No offense intended, but this is like crying over spilt milk. It still marvels me why the Niger Delta youths allow huge resources to be taken away from the region and used to develop elsewhere.

I am afraid Warri has been damaged beyond repair. Have you noticed that no comedian says anything positive about the town? Sometimes, I wonder how people survive over there

The rate of internet fraud is alarming, to say the least. Maybe when another Urhobo man becomes governor, he will clean up the city

Back to Lagos, no Nigerian state has infrastructure like Lagos. Lagos is more than 50 years ahead of many Nigerian states

But if you take away the Island from Lagos, the city is just like every other slum in Nigeria

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Corrinthians:
It is indeed about time we gave the earth this break. She truly deserves it. I can imagine how happy she would be without us farting into her face through our vehicles, making her sick with ozone layer depletion, greenhouse gases, acid rain and global warming.

The earth has given us so much since we got here, and by my estimation, this is the first time we are giving her back, even though it is for selfish reasons.

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GreatResearcher:
beauty with hungry inhabitants.

i'd rather stay in a slum with a full tommy than stay in a palace with an dmpty tommy

But that is not the essence of the thread. Its essense is simply to show us what the city looks like while we remained indoors. It is something to be appreciated if you ask me.

Lagos is beautiful.







Make free money today.
Check my signature.

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Corrinthians:
But that is not the essence of the thread. Its essense is simply to show us what the city looks like while we remained indoors. It is something to be appreciated if you ask me.

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Softapplez:
Seeing Lagos like this makes me so sad on how Warri in Delta State has fallen.

If not for the war between urhobos, itsekiri and ijaws in Delta State.

Warri precisely will now be the Lagos island of delta state.

The numbers of companies that left Warri to Lagos and porthacourt and Abuja during the war were more than 100.

So many national and international company left Warri and now Delta State and Warri in particular has lost her glory.

The Warri i knew when i was still a kid was 1000 times more beautiful and more modern than the Warri of today.

I'm sure by now if not for the war, Delta State and Warri in particular would have released the population burden from Lagos.

This is what greed, ignorance, bad government and uneducated citizens can do to a city.

It's even funny looking at the fact that the numbers of white people and Asians living in Warri before the war were even more than any state in Nigeria.

When i was a kid, seeing white men and women in Warri was very normal, we see them on traffic, in churches, in the mall, even some came to watch us play Football every afternoon.

I think we as deltans have to go back to the drawing board.

As for the federal government, i think restructuring is what Nigeria needs now.

Let each state start operating like mini country Just like the US of A and in not more than 5 years time, the population of Lagos will reduce by nearly half.

Because by the time each states start developing and building of skyscrapers, investors will come in.

Lots of people don't actually know they skyscrapers are easy to build.

Let the security system be re branded and let us have our state Police and local Police.

By the order of the Peaky blinders.

It is not true that the ethnic crisis of 1999 caused the decline of Warri. Even after the crisis, Warri boomed. The turning point was when Shell left town. That sounded the death knell for the once vibrant town. The constant harrassment of oil workers and sabotage of their facilities in the hinterlands of Isoko and Ijaw people was too much for them to bear. Their losses were mounting. Warri has always had an educated population even till today but so many left after Shell and associated servicing companies left. So your point that it has 'uneducated citizens' is false. Maybe in the hinterlands but not Warri. It is a pity that Warri is now a shadow of itself. In Warri schools then it was common to have indians, britons, south americans as classmates! You could even see them trekking home with the natives after school There was one in particular I used to admire back then and always tried to impress her but she no send me. Inabuihe was her surname. Half Ibo, half American. But she was very white..and very beautiful too. Those days.
If it were possible, Shell should be begged and even given incentives by the Delta State government to return to Warri. Pay them whatever they ask for to return after all, they invested a lot while they were in Warri but the thankless youths could not see beyond their own noses.
I have not lost hope in Warri. The population is still very enlightened but so many others have left. Bring back Shell to Warri. They did a lot to stimulate the economy of Warri something that Chevron doesn't want to do. Restructuring is just a pipe dream. The hausas will never allow it.

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CoronaVirusPro:
God bless The Center of Excellence.

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Corrinthians:
But that is not the essence of the thread. Its essense is simply to show us what the city looks like while we remained indoors. It is something to be appreciated if you ask me.

Words of a wise man!
How we wish we have just 12 of your kind on this forum.
How we wish.........

@topic, isn't Lagos just so beautiful?
State of firsts.

Corrinthians:
It is indeed about time we gave the earth this break. She truly deserves it. I can imagine how happy she would be without us farting into her face through our vehicles, making her sick with ozone layer depletion, greenhouse gases, acid rain and global warming.

The earth has given us so much since we got here, and by my estimation, this is the first time we are giving her back, even though it is for selfish reasons.

Hmmmmm, this is deep.

SoNature:


Niger Delta leaders are the worst in Nigeria. So much money at their disposal and nothing to show for it.

No offense intended, but this is like crying over spilt milk. It still marvels me why the Niger Delta youths allow huge resources to be taken away from the region and used to develop elsewhere.

I am afraid Warri has been damaged beyond repair

Have you noticed that no comedian says anything good about the town? Sometimes, I wonder how people survive over there

The rate of internet fraud is alarming, to say the least. Maybe when another Urhobo man becomes governor, he will clean up the city

Back to Lagos, no Nigerian state has infrastructure like Lagos. Lagos is more than 50 years ahead of many Nigerian states

But if you take away the Island from Lagos, the city is just like every other slum in Nigeria

Which resource are u talking about?

I hope its not our oil, cause that's not there resources o

You prolly wonder why some people are so mad, hateful, denigrate and claim Lagos is no man's land, it is because its beauty is unrivalled and the answers to their pain are summed up in the pictures.

Lagos is everything they want their region to be but cannot.

As a Deltan, all I am left with is my proud heritage and not the geographical location that is serially violated by selfish beasts who stack up the agony of people in luxury material possessions for their family and girlfriends.

To those warming up to cry Lagos was built with oil money, the glorious state has been standing long before independence and long before oil was discovered.

Èkó o ni bàjé