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Topic: Lagos (disambiguation)


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Lagos was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 - 1976; it was stripped of this title when the Federal Capital Territory was established at the purpose-built city of Abuja.
Lagos was the headquarters of Lagos State until 1976, when this was moved to Ikeja, Lagos thus losing state capital and national capital status in the same year.
Lagos is, by most estimates, one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, The United Nations predicts that the city's metropolitan area, which had only about 290,000 inhabitants in 1950, will exceed 20 million by 2010, making Lagos one of the world's five largest cities.
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  Lagos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lagos was formally annexed as a British colony in 1861.
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 - 1991; it was stripped of this title when the Federal Capital Territory was established at the purpose-built city of Abuja.
Lagos is not a common tourist destination, as it is primarily business-oriented and has a reputation for danger and squalor amongst many foreigners.
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 Wikipedia: Lagos
Lagos is the largest and most chaotic city in Nigeria and, with its population of 13.4 million (2000), one of the largest in Africa (competing with Cairo).
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria until 1991 when the capital was moved to Abuja.
Lagos is built on the mainland and the series of islands surrounding Lagos Lagoon.
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 Science Fair Projects - Lagos
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and, with its population of 13.4 million people (2000), one of the largest in Africa (second only to Cairo, Egypt).
The main commercial remains Lagos Island, which is connected to the mainland by three large bridges: Eko Bridge, Carter Bridge, and Third Mainland Bridge.
Transport links within Lagos are congested, due in part to the geography of the city, its explosive population growth, as well as bad roads and bad driving habits.
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 Lagos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Lagos was once a Yoruba settlement called Eko, whose name stemmed from either Oko (farm) or Eko (war camp.) During its early history, it also saw periods of rule by the Kingdom of Benin.
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 - 1976; it was stripped of this title when the Federal Capital Territory was established at the purpose-built city of Abuja.
Lagos is, by most estimates, one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, The United Nations predicts that the city's metropolitan area, which had only about 290,000 inhabitants in 1950, will exceed 20 million by 2010, making Lagos one of the world's five largest cities.
www.dictionpedia.com /en/Lagos   (1633 words)

  
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:"Alternate uses: Lagos (disambiguation) Lagos (disambiguation)" Map of Nigeria Map of Nigeria "Lagos" is the largest and most chaotic city city in Nigeria Nigeria and, with its population of 13.4 million (2000 2000), one of the largest in Africa Africa (competing with Cairo Cairo).
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria until 1991 1991 when the capital was moved to Abuja Abuja.
Lagos is built on the mainland and the series of islands surrounding Lagos Lagoon Lagos Lagoon.
www.biodatabase.de /Lagos   (408 words)

  
 Lagos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Lagos is the former capital city of Nigeria as it was replaced by Abuja in 1991, but the city remains the commercial center of Nigeria.
Modern-day Lagos was founded by Portugal in the sixteenth century, and was a major center of the slave trade until 1851, when Great Britain, which had abolished slavery in 1807, captured the city.
Lagos lost some prestige in 1991 when the national capital was moved north and inland, to Abuja.
www.governpub.com /Capitals-L/Lagos.php   (630 words)

  
 Lagos travel guide - Wikitravel
Lagos is best traveled early in the morning (before dawn) at dusk, in evening or at weekends and public holidays when traffic is low.
Lagos' traffic congestion is world class and probably without equal anywhere on the globe...it must be negotiated with patience and acceptance...one can later wear the experience like a traveler's medal..one has experienced Lagos traffic full on and come away sane (but maybe not the same).
One comes away from Lagos with new skills and a love of people...one tends to negotiate any price even in "western" department stores (and suprisingly often with results!) and there might be a tendency to drive for a while like Lagotians (have to lose that tendency quickly, usually).
wikitravel.org /en/Lagos   (2006 words)

  
 Victoria Island Lagos
Lagos Island is the principal island of the city of Lagos in Nigeria.
Lying in Lagos Lagoon, a large protected natural harbour on the west coast of Africa, the island was home to the original Yoruba fishing village of Eko, which grew into the modern city of Lagos.
Lagos Island is connected to the mainland by three large bridges which cross Lagos Lagoon to the district of Ebute Meta.
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 Kano - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, with a population of 3.626.204 (2005), after Lagos and Ibadan.
Kano houses a university and a railway station with trains to Lagos routed through Kaduna, while Kano International Airport lies nearby.
Because Kano is north of the rail junction at Kaduna, it has equal access to the seaports at Lagos and Port Harcourt.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kano   (496 words)

  
 Lagos Hotels
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (born March 2, 1938) is a Socialist politician and the president of Chile since 2000.
Lagos, Portugal - a town on the Algarve coast in Portugal.
Lagos in Nigeria is probably better known than the others, thus I feel it's preferable to place it directly at Lagos.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of drummers
For alternative meanings of Gdaand#324;sk and Danzig, see Gdansk (disambiguation) and Danzig (disambiguation) The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations.
Pride is the name of an emotion which refers to a strong sense of self-respect, a refusal to be humiliated as well as joy in the accomplishments of oneself or a person, group, nation or object that one identifies with.
Paul Cook, born on July 20, 1956, is an English drummer and former member of the Sex Pistols.
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 Qwika - similar:Oyo
Note: The historical empire that was governed from the 14th Century until 1897 by the Oba of Benin, from a seat of power sited at Benin City in present-day Nigeria, is easily confused with the modern nation of Benin, formerly the French colony of Dahomey, Nigeria's neighbor to the west.
Lagos StateState nickname: Centre of Excellence Location Statistics Governor (List) Bọla Tinubu (AD) Date Created 27 May 1967 Capital Ikẹja Area 3,345 km²Ranked 36th Population 1991 Census 2005 estimate Ranked 1st 5,685,781 10,601,345 ISO 3166-2 NG-LA Lagos State, Nigeria was created on May 27, 1967.
Location of Kano in Nigeria Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, with a population of 1,166,554 (2004), after Lagos and Ibadan.
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 Luz (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luz, a parish in the district of Lagos
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 Kano Did You Mean kano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the largest city in northern Nigeria, with a population of 1,166,554 (2004).
Kano houses a university and a railway station with trains to Lagos via Kaduna, while Kano International Airport lies nearby.
Kano was replaced as the centre of government for the Northern Region of Nigeria by Kaduna, and only regained administrative significance with the creation of Kano State following Nigerian independence.
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 Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard - LoveToKnow Watches
In 1896-1897 he took charge of an expedition to Lake Ngami on behalf of the British West Charterland Company.
From Ngami he was recalled by the British government and sent to West Africa, where he was commissioned to raise a native force to protect British interests in the hinterland of Lagos and Nigeria against French aggression.
In August 1897 he raised the West African Frontier Force, and commanded it until the end of December 1899.
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 Asturian information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Weather permitting, it can be viewed clearly from Camarmeña village, near Poncebos, south of Arenas de Cabrales.
The shrine to the Virgin Mary of Covadonga and the mountain lakes (Los Lagos), near Cangas de Onís: Legend has it that in the 8th century, the Virgin blessed Asturian Christian forces with a well-timed signal to attack Spain's Moorish conquerors, thereby taking the invaders by surprise.
The Reconquista and eventual unification of all Spain is therefore said to have started in this very location.
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 Disambiguation Blog: Piracy, Immaterial Labour, the Franchise Event   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Disambiguation Blog: Piracy, Immaterial Labour, the Franchise Event
Jon has written an interesting post on the relation between piracy and digital production.
Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothing to do, no where to go-o, I wanna be sedated Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane Hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain Oh no oh oh oh oh
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 Godzilla - Multiversal Omnipedia
Apparently the original Godzilla, somehow reborn, he returned to ravage Tokyo in 1985 and proceeded to endanger Japan and battle other kaiju for many years afterward.
Godzilla was originally a Godzillasaurus, possibly last of his species, who lived on Lagos Island.
During World War II, the Godzillasaurus (inadvertently) saved a troop of Japanese soldiers from an American assault, being grievously wounded in the process.
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 Home > Syosset, NY, New York Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The traditional Yoruba area, the southwestern corner of Nigeria, is commonly called Yorubaland and is comprised of today\'s Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Kwara, and Lagos states as well as the western part of Kogi state.
The rhotic consonant is realized as a flap ([ɾ]), or in some varieties (notably Lagos Yoruba) as the postalveolar approximant [ɹ].
In the rare case where this results in two possible readings, disambiguation is left to the context.
www.syossetnyus.com /profile/Yoruba_language   (2786 words)

  
 Pakistan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Pakistan politics and officials, Pakistan History. Travel to ...
For other uses of this term, see Patagonia (disambiguation).
The Chilean portion embraces the southern part of the region of Los Lagos, and the regions of Aysen and Magallanes (excluding the portion of Antarctica claimed by Chile).
East of the Andes the Argentine portion of Patagonia includes the provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego, as well as the southern tip of the Buenos Aires Province.
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 Chile Encyclopedia Articles @ OfficialTexts.com (Official Texts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the Constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution.
In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.
These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years.
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 Great Lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the African lakes, see African Great Lakes.
For other uses of this term, see Great Lakes (disambiguation).
The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes on or near the United States-Canadian border.
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