The Rise of Lagos Megacity - West Africa Urban Renaissance
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- A complete look at the rise of Lagos Megacity, Nigeria’s largest city and the economic hub of West Africa. Once a modest settlement of fishing villages, Lagos has emerged as one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world. This journey is a story of resilience, ambition, and determination. The evolution of Lagos is not just a show of the spirit of its people but also a reflection of Nigeria’s aspirations for progress and modernization.
My best city in whole of Africa 🇳🇬🇳🇬💪💪
I visited there three years ago all the way from California and I couldn’t agree more. Happiest two weeks of my life 🤩
Thank you for telling the world about Nigeria. Nigeria is the best kept secret
Nigeria shall be great.
God bless Nigeria!
@@emmanueldominic6219 Amen
I love this city with my soul..greatest city in Africa💪
Lagos’ transformation is incredible. Totally unrecognisable from when I was a kid (which wasn’t that long ago😂)
from a big slum to a greater slum 💩. i guess that's progress 😔
@@cellb2619 I understand from where you are coming from which is nothing but kaka, like we say in 9ja pidgin.
Nigeria has only just started,in 5 to 10 years from now people will be shocked by Nigeria,especially lagos..Did you know Eko Atlantic city in lagos is the same size as mahattan in new york?Shall we say Lagos is looking to be the new york of Africa then?😅Seasons greetings to you friend,wishing you and your family a prosperous new year.❤🎉Thanks.
even d other lazy states are changing even thou d cities are not growing as rapid as lagos.
😂😂😂 Nigeria has been starting since it's independence. eko Atlantic has been empty for how many years now? i mean the project has 5 or 6 complete buildings from since 2013. That's embarrassing!!
@@cellb2619it's a private entity they must have their reason but the major take for Lagos is the taming of Atlantic surge from entering Victoria Island
@@cellb2619it's a private entity they must have their reason but the major take for Lagos is the taming of Atlantic surge from entering Victoria Island
@@cellb2619lol, make ur research don’t just talk
I always enjoyed the qualities of your production, and your narrative styles.
Lagos accelerated exponential growth ....is aggresively propelled by the determination to emancipate africa from poverty.💯
Who say Lagos is not fine. Let him come out here and proof that 😅. And oga you need to take this sweet video of yours to tiktok as well, let the world see how Nigeria 🇳🇬 is moving. God bless you with merry Christmas and Happy New year in advance ❤🎉
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@@mutungankombe1404in that case go out and use AI for your cities and towns in your country and stop the hatred
Awesome. My beautiful Nigeria 🇳🇬 ❤️
Take 🎉🎉🎉 for the your great content...
Please, Abuja is waiting for your exploration as well❤❤
Eko oni baje my city ❤️💥
Well done. Lovely content. I'm looking forward to seeing Banana island soon😊😊🙏
God Bless You For Your quality Content and spreading positivity about Nigeria 👊🏼✊🏼🇳🇬
City Of Excellence For A Reason!!! From The Remoteness Agro Community in Ikorodu To World Class Urban Cities Of Victoria Island, Lekki , Ikoyi. Lagos is Setting World Class Standard For Urban Development & Civilisation. With Foresight Leaders From Alh Lateef Jakande, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Akinwunmi Ambode & Presently The Oju Eko (Eyes Of Lagos) Amiable Governor Babajide Sanwo Olu, Lagos Future Has Been Secured By This Futuristic Leadership Roles, This Role Models Have Played In Urbanisation Of Lagos State. I Urge Other States & Countries To Learn From Our Great Leaders & How They Have Continually Improve & Upgrade The Status Of Lagos To A World Class City... God Bless All Our Leaders
You forgot to mentioned Buba marwa.
Beautiful lagos..i'm proud of my city👍❤❤❤❤
How l wish this video is on Tiktok 😅😅☝️
Is just beginning lagos is growing every day every year I can see what good that coming to lagos
First to comment. Great content 🎉❤❤
Great content
Beautiful Lagos from the lens of a master videographer and vlogger. This is a comprehensive wrap of your video documentaries done in stages within the year. I came to know because I followed your contents quite regularly and closely. You have done the same for Accra Ghana. Please do well to cover Abuja extensively in the new year.
My suggestion for a better and scenic Lagos is for the state government to do everything within its means and capacity to attract investors that will fill the many vacant land-spaces within the Marina, Victoria Island and Ikoyi areas with more skyscrapers and high-rise buildings. Then, there should be a sustained deliberate effort or plan to landscape and cultivate more ornamental trees along the major streets of Lagos. It is called urban renewal and beautification, the same way the government of Ethiopia has transformed Addis Ababa with modern amenities, breathtaking aesthetic infrastructure, leisure parks and sightseeing centres that attract citizens, residents and tourists to the city capital. It is a major source of tourist attractions and foreign exchange revenues. Lagos has not fully harnessed the rich potentials offered by its aquatic resources and splendour. It promises to be a fantastic, distinctive and unique economic feature all year round. We want to have a bustling scenic metropolis to boast of and be compared with most beautiful capital cities or economic hubs in Africa. Let's find a way and plant more ornamental trees, bury power and telecom cables underground and cover open drainage channels to make Lagos more beautiful and alluring than it is currently.
Keep up the good work and remain blessed for your quality documentaries, AFRICA VIEWS REPORTS. Guys, let us help grow this channel's subscriber base beyond its current 6.3 thousand. To help push these Pan-African contents to gain more prominence and visibility worldwide and change the false narratives about Nigeria, West Africa and Africa by the Western media, we can help the creator garner over 50 thousand subscribers by the end of 2025. One Love 💕🇳🇬🙏🏽.
Mo fe ran Eko. Ko ni baje o! ❤
This is wonderful
Beautiful Lagos
Wow!!! What a lovely city.
So beautiful
You’re the best
Great contents
merry christmas lagos
Beautiful
Ghana nor go believe say na Lagos be this o 😂
Leave them alone abeg.
Lagos the commercial nerves centre of West Africa and a Global powerhouse city of about 22millions inhabitants with GDP of $150B is not in competition with any capital city, no rivalry
By the end of 2025 the total amount of fuel dangote refinery would have sold, would make lagos economy bigger
Wow fan houses
Pls do Eko Atlantic and check for the new buildings
For those of you Africans not familiar with Lagos, Lagos is made up of so many cities like Lagos island marina which is the oldest and first CBD, Victoria island, ikoyi island, lekki island city, the latest eko Atlantic City, Alero city, ikeja city which is the capital of Lagos, Badagry town a slave town close to benin republic, ikorodu town, epe town, Maryland a city under ikeja etc
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LAGOS IS THE COMBINATION OF NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES...🗽🗽🗽
I’m from California and have visited Lagos and this is very true 😎
Some daft are comparing Lagos with a town in their country.one even said that,they are having the best infrastructure in west or the whole of Africa.That he will admit Nigeria is having a better stadium than theirs.Except that, no other things.if a child hasn't been to another man's farm he will thinks his father's has the biggest n largest farm. Lagos my Lagos.comparing Lagos with Accra is that not weeds or Ghana loud!
Let's stop comparison and strive as AFRICANS...I DON'T think any well-bred Ghanaian Will compare Accra to Lagos... It is even useless to do so.... NIGERIA IS TO LARGE AND TOO WEALTHY... Ghana and every country needs to focus on it own development... Comparisons is USELESS in my opinion...Cuz No two countries are bound to be the same by the end of the DAY IN ANY SPHERE..
@@agbekuwayou are very right but if you see some of these guys writing all sorts one will be tempted to correct them
@@AbiodunDada-t1p DEFINITELY THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.THANKS SIR.
Lagos island is more beautiful than Johannesburg SA.accra ghana should be compared to jos Nigeria Not with lagos
@@agbekuwa i dont think any well educated nigerian can stand on his feet and compare lagos to Accra single minute. lowest quality of life city in the world 2024 is your lagos deal with that. building is not only criterial for development, people come from this lagos zo educate themserves in Accra what about that too? is Accra your mate because you think u have bigger city right? huul lagos is pure shit.
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Nigeria is the sixth biggest nation in the world. Ahead of Russian and Brazil.
In terms of population
Brazil is more populated than Nigeria
So many car's in Lagos
It is not _‘Lar-gos’_
It is *_‘Lay-gos’_*
auu u!
😂😂 Ghana go think say na A.I city 😂😂😂
No dey mention those People in our affairs,please, it's our number 38 state not a country
Pls leave those people Abeg na madness they worry them
Oga calm down. It's the same thing South Africans will be saying about us. Lagos is awesome, be you CAN NOT compare it to Joburg and Capetown, so make Una relax biko.
@chyke6272 let's be real, you no lie. I wish our downtown and business district was more planned, organized and cleaner.
Accra Ghana 🇬🇭 is far beautiful than Abuja and Lagos combine mumu@@kayodeakinyemi708
I like this video, but my only issue is that you did not mention the influence of the Benin kingdom in Lagos, even though you were quick to mention Portuguese influences. You people can do better.
You have serious problem and you don't know
Is Nigeria not English word? (Niger area), is port Harcourt not named after a white man? Is plateau not an English word? Is cross river not an English word? Is Lagos itself not a Portuguese word ? Can we say they own port Harcourt, plateau, Nigeria or Lagos?
@@chemistryabcxyz2763 You are the one with a serious problem if you are Yoruba. People who do not know their true history do not really know themselves. Most of the culture practised today by Indigenous Lagos people was introduced to them by the Benin kingdom, they include kingship, Oro, olokun shango, etc .
@RAnderson-n4xhahahaha so you don't know these are yoruba gods?
@RAnderson-n4x
You are really a confused and depressed fellow. So Yoruba history started from Lagos. Ability to type does not mean you are educated
The future of Lagos and Nigeria lies in regional decentralization of national infrastructure NOT the unwarranted concertation of "development " in one area which is then claimed by one ethnic group to the exclusion of others, fact.
Other ethnic group are in charge of their region. They can innovatively use their available resources as well and claim it. When did Lagos seized being capital of Nigeria? It is leadership qualities that keep up till this stage
@@nafiuoladokun9050
How much did you pay for the construction of the 4th mainland bridge and its recent repairs? How many bags of cocoa (your chief resource) did you sell to raise the money? Let's start from there. Then we will move to examine why you have not used your available resources innovatively in Iragbiji, Osogbo, Idanre, Alajue-Ede , Aiyetoro, Gbongan and other hellscapes in your region. How much of your energy from your own region is powering Lagos now? You lot do take other Nigerians for fools, don't you?
@@nafiuoladokun9050u dey mind them? They should ask their governors since 1999 till date how much their state have gotten from FF, how much they state have make locally and how much they have spend on infrastructure etc am sure nobody questions their region government they are looting their region money without any checkmate na only Lagos they fit out mouth.
Lagos started life as a military camp for the army of Benin kingdom....there was a pepper farm too where the Oba of Lagos palace is situated today; the name of the palace Iga Idunganran is derived from that and means 'the palace built on a pepper farm'
Story story aho ask you?
@@lanrechentoce379 Intelligent people who love knowledge might want to know, not olodos like you 😂😂
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No, it didn't start as a military camp for Benin, that's historical distortion, as a Lagosian and Awori.
It was early settled by the Aworis, and called Ereko 'Farm settlement', which later called it is a Yorubaland.
By about the 1580s, Lagos had become the greatest commercial centre on the coast of West Africa, and Its trade with the European traders had totally surpassed that of the Benin kingdom. Very many Edo traders were coming to trade in Lagos, and Lagos became very famous in Benin. Benin traders to Lagos became like a special class of people in Benin society.
The rulers of the Benin kingdom responded to this by embarking on an attempt to seize, control and possess the booming trade of Lagos. Fortunately, we have some written records by European traders who were trading in Lagos in these years. The Oba of Benin sent a considerable military force to Lagos. In 1603, A German trader trading in Lagos wrote in his notes that Lagos had become like a Benin military camp. The background to this is that a succession dispute was going on between two princes of the Awori kingdom of Lagos, and the Benin decided to support one of the princes to win the throne and thereby turn the Awori kingdom of Lagos into a vassal of the Benin kingdom.
The Benin forces were successful for some time and the prince supported by them became considerably stronger than his rival. But the fighting was not yet over. In the further fighting, the commander of the Benin forces was killed. The near-victorious prince, named Asipa in most traditions, then decided to further seal his relationship with the Benin by offering to lead the group that was taking the body of the dead Benin commander to Benin. In Benin, this Awori prince met the Oba of Benin, and the Oba of Benin declared him his adopted son. Some traditions have it that Asipa also married a Benin wife in Benin.
Asipa returned home into continued opposition and, in the midst of serious contention, he was crowned Oba of Lagos. As the opposition to him never relented, he was forced to lean and harp continually on his Benin support.
Some traditions have it that, to show support for this embattled Oba of Lagos, the Oba of Benin paid a brief visit to Lagos in these years. In the midst of all this, this Oba of Lagos and his leading Awori supporters started the tradition that he was a prince from Benin, a descendant of the Obas of Benin. This is the origin of the tradition that claims a Benin origin for the Obas of Lagos, the tradition that some Lagos families still hold to today, the tradition that the current Oba of Lagos has occasionally been heard to affirm - the tradition that the Oba of Benin proudly proclaimed during his visit to Lagos on November 26, 2023.
No, it didn't start as a military camp for Benin, that's historical distortion, as a Lagosian and Awori.
It was early settled by Aworis and which was called Ereko, 'Farm settlement' which was later called Eko. it is a Yorubaland.
By about the 1580s, Lagos had become the greatest commercial centre on the coast of West Africa, and Its trade with the European traders had totally surpassed that of the Benin kingdom. Very many Edo traders were coming to trade in Lagos, and Lagos became very famous in Benin. Benin traders to Lagos became like a special class of people in Benin society.
The rulers of the Benin kingdom responded to this by embarking on an attempt to seize, control and possess the booming trade of Lagos. Fortunately, we have some written records by European traders who were trading in Lagos in these years. The Oba of Benin sent a considerable military force to Lagos. In 1603, A German trader trading in Lagos wrote in his notes that Lagos had become like a Benin military camp. The background to this is that a succession dispute was going on between two princes of the Awori kingdom of Lagos, and the Benin decided to support one of the princes to win the throne and thereby turn the Awori kingdom of Lagos into a vassal of the Benin kingdom.
The Benin forces were successful for some time and the prince supported by them became considerably stronger than his rival. But the fighting was not yet over. In the further fighting, the commander of the Benin forces was killed. The near-victorious prince, named Asipa in most traditions, then decided to further seal his relationship with the Benin by offering to lead the group that was taking the body of the dead Benin commander to Benin. In Benin, this Awori prince met the Oba of Benin, and the Oba of Benin declared him his adopted son. Some traditions have it that Asipa also married a Benin wife in Benin.
Asipa returned home into continued opposition and, in the midst of serious contention, he was crowned Oba of Lagos. As the opposition to him never relented, he was forced to lean and harp continually on his Benin support.
Some traditions have it that, to show support for this embattled Oba of Lagos, the Oba of Benin paid a brief visit to Lagos in these years. In the midst of all this, this Oba of Lagos and his leading Awori supporters started the tradition that he was a prince from Benin, a descendant of the Obas of Benin. This is the origin of the tradition that claims a Benin origin for the Obas of Lagos, the tradition that some Lagos families still hold to today, the tradition that the current Oba of Lagos has occasionally been heard to affirm - the tradition that the Oba of Benin proudly proclaimed during his visit to Lagos on November 26, 2023.
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This is Lagos
Pls learn how to call Lagos how will u feel if I can’t call the name of ur country correctly
His pronunciation is correct. It is pronounced lar-gos. Lagos is a portuguese word which means lake.
The word eko is edo word not aworri
And then?
Stop That now,this place is not for sectionalism, tribalism. no history or whatsoever. Thanks
@@AbiodunDada-t1p
What do you mean?
the word eko is yoruba and 4 yoruba city use yoruba for example in osun state
@kellysuccess9788 And then, tell the truth, don't be ashamed of it.
stress..
Check their HDI, life expentancy, illitracy rate,per capita, hunger level,very poor country.
Ghanaian in the house to spew the same old lame drivel. We love it so much that everything about Nigeria causes you so much agitation. We own you and you are forever living under our shadow. Now mental Mensah, go home to tro-tro Ghana and eat your eggs.
@alexbanj7a7bc
This loudmouth again? So it is Ghanaians now, no longer Ibos?
Why always trawling around looking for enemies? How many of those Ikoyi mansions do you personally own?
@DogonTurenchi-c6y Yappity yap yap yap yap. Zzzzzzzzz.
@DogonTurenchi-c6y pained. kwasia........when your fellow nigerians were mentioning Ghana in their comments what did u tell them? you were happy rather.yes loud mouth because we are far better compared to your country so shut up with your big mouth for us to talk.
@DogonTurenchi-c6y you are pained right.kwasia........when your fellow nigerians were mentioning Ghana in their comments you were happy but when we respond is a loud mouth for you. Chad is your mate not Ghana.
Economy hub of Africa not west Africa
With the new Dangote refinery yes, Nigeria now sells fuel to countries. soon nigeria will sell oil to all african countries capturing the market.
the hunger hub of Africa.
@@Bejonastv5591jealousy you jealous right logo's alone is richer than your country
@@Bejonastv5591 that should be Ghana your country and I 💯 agree 👍🏿.
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