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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" [38] [39] [40] is an urban agglomeration or conurbation, [41] consisting of 16 LGAs including Ikeja, the state capital of Lagos State.
In 1906, the colony was incorporated into the new Southern Nigeria Protectorate which merged into British Nigeria in 1914 with the city of Lagos as its capital. Upon independence in 1960, Lagos remained as the capital with much of the city forming the Federal Capital Territory while the rest of modern-day Lagos State was a part of the Western ...
Lagos city was split into the present day seven Local Government Areas (LGAs), while the other towns now make up 13 LGAs in the state. Lagos played the dual role of being the State and Federal Capital until 1976 when the state capital was moved to Ikeja. Lagos was adversely affected during Nigeria's military rule. [64]
Lagos state is made up of five administrative divisions, namely, Ikorodu, Ikeja, Epe, Badagry, and Lagos Island, with Ikeja being the Capital.The five divisions consist of a total of 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).
Named for the city of Lagos—the most populous city in Africa—the state was formed from the Western Region and the former Federal Capital Territory on 27 May 1967. Geographically, Lagos State is dominated by bodies of water with nearly a quarter of the state's area are covered with bodies of water.
Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, ordered schools to shut indefinitely, banned concerts, carnivals and street parties and ordered certain civil servants to work from home amid a spike in new ...
Ikeja is the capital city of Lagos State in southwestern Nigeria. [2] Its population, as of the 2006 census, is 313 196.Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, [3] Ikeja was a well planned, clean and quiet residential and commercial town with shopping malls, pharmacies and government reservation areas.
A light aircraft crashed and burst into flames while on a test flight in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, on Tuesday, the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau said. The aircraft was operated ...