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"With low crime, little threat from instability or terrorism and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure, Canada and Australia are home to the most liveable destinations in the world.
Will elections change the struggling oil-rich nation? Photographs by Jacob Silberberg / Panos and Thomas Dworzak / Magnum for TIME
At dinner the other day with a group of intellectual types, the conversation is flowing like a dream. The topics flow seamlessly from comics to exotic food to sport.
Africa's biggest oil producer, once considered a high risk, has seen the market capitalisation of its stock exchange double over 12 months to about $45bn, attracting both foreign and domestic investment. Nig-eria has cleared more than $30bn in external debt over the same period.
From the article: The unlikely mechanic steps out of her office and dons a fake tiger-skin cowboy hat, ready to inspect the latest vehicle to roll into her open-air garage. Sandra Aguebor, an activist known to Nigerians as the Lady Mechanic, is on the case.
Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria was fun. You could drink and drive. You could park wherever you wanted. If you drove through Obalende at 3 AM you could be sure of some hot food.
LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- At least 200 people were killed outside Lagos, Nigeria, in a massive explosion and fire that ignited as crowds carried away buckets of refined fuel from a tapped fuel pipeline, the Nigerian Red Cross said.
LAGOS, Nigeria - At least 200 people were killed Tuesday when a gasoline pipeline exploded in Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, a Red Cross official said. The death toll was expected to rise.
Amos Tutuola's fictions were, in Dylan Thomas's words, "thronged, grisley and bewitching," filled with strange creatures, magic, horror, and humor but the Nigerian author of richly inventive fantasies best known for the novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster …
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and has the potential to be one of the richest, but has been plagued by corruption since independence in 1960.
From the page: -- The ringleader of a Dutch-based internet scam that raked in up to $US2 million ($2.6 million) has been arrested in Nigeria, police in Amsterdam say. --
We have had a couple of fierce storms move through the area over the past couple of days, but this points more to the damage done by the fire and the generally decrepit state of the maintenance of this and most buildings in Lagos.
Lagos State is enforceing a 'no movement' restriction from 8 - 4 through Saturday. So no buses, no taxis, no work.
Lagosians love the city and often can not imagine life outside it. Life in Lagos is stressful but rich in eventfulness. Africa's largest city suffers huge planning and management problems.