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Port of Lagos (Transport, Nigeria) fifth largest African economy

Lagos is the capital of the Lagos State, in the North of Nigeria (Trade and Business in West Africa)

1. Population of Lagos: 12 million Lagosian
   1. Population of the Lagos agglomeration: 21 million Lagosian (the largest Nigerian city, ahead Cairo and Kinshasa)
2. Lagos is the Nigerian main commercial, industrial and cultural centre
3. Lagos generates 10% of the Nigerian GDP
4. Lagos Island neighbourhood is the business centre of Lagos
5. Eko Atlantic City (Artificial island)
6. The headquarters of the main Nigerian institutions and companies are in Lagos
7. Lagos is the main centre of information and communication technologies in West Africa
8. Major oil industry (20% of the Nigerian GDP)
9. Lagos is one of the most expensive cities in the world

Transport and Logistics

The Port of Lagos (Nigerian Ports Authority) is one of the largest African ports

1. Port of Lagos
2. Port of Apapa (Container terminal)
3. Port of Tin Can

Distances from Lagos to:

1. Abuja: 128 kilometres
2. Ibadan: 128 kilometres (Lagos-Ibadan Road)
3. Kaduna: 209 kilometres (Lagos-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Railway)
4. Kano: 442 kilometres
5. Maiduguri: 1,722 kilometres
6. Port Harcourt: 617 kilometres

1. Lagos-Abeokuta Highway
2. Corridor: Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana), Lagos (Nigeria)
3. Lagos is an important centre of Nigerian international trade
4. Murtala Muhammed International Airport (50% of the Nigerian Air traffic)

Dakar-Lagos Transport Corridor

Nigerian Students from Lagos

1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
2. Doctorate in African Business

More information: Trade and Business in Nigeria, at EENI Global Business School Website.

1. State: Lagos
2. Lagos was the former Nigerian capital (since 1991, the capital of Nigeria is Abuja)
3. Main religions in Lagos: Christianity (75% of Lagosian, Archbishop of the Catholic Church), Islam (15%) and the African Traditional Religions.
4. Mayor ethnic group of Lagos: Yoruba

1. Problems of air pollution and crime
2. 15th Century: arrival of the Portuguese
3. 16th Century: conquest of Lagos by the Kingdom of Benin
4. Important Slave Trade centre
5. 1861: British protectorate of Southern Nigeria (1914)

Hajia Bola Shagaya (Nigerian Businesswoman)

Lagos State (Nigeria)

The Lagos State is the most economically important state and the largest urban area in Nigeria. It is an important financial centre and would be the fifth largest African Economy, if Lagos were a country.

1. Capital of the Lagos State (South-West of Nigeria): Ikeja
2. Population of the Lagos State: 9 million inhabitants
3. Area of the Lagos State: 3,345 km²
4. Contiguous state: Ogun State.
5. Border of the Lagos State with the Republic of Benin
6. Main cities of the Lagos State:
   1. Ikeja
   2. Lekki
   3. Ikorodu
   4. Eko Atlantic
   5. Badagry
   6. Epe
   7. Ojo

Adewale Tinubu (Nigerian Businessman)

Higher Education in Lagos (Nigeria)

1. University of Lagos
2. University of Lagos State
3. Pan-Atlantic University
4. National Open University of Nigeria
5. University of Caleb

Olufemi Otedola (Nigerian Businessman, Lagos)

Tunde Folawiyo (Nigerian Businessman)

Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize in Literature)

Folorunsho Alakija (businesswoman, Ikorudu, Lagos)

Tara Fela-Durotoye (businesswoman)

Adenike Ogunlesi (businesswoman)

Folake Folarin-Coker (businesswoman)

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