• Lagos Rail Mass Transit is a rapid transit system in Lagos State. The rail system is managed by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA)...
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    Since 1985, it has been owned by United States president-elect Donald Trump. The estate has been his primary residence since 2019. Mar-a-Lago was built...
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    Lagos Island called Eko. Their ruler Olofin divided the island among his ten sons. One of them, Aromire, planted pepper on the nearby island of Lagos...
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    Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria. Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the...
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  • The Nigerian Open was a golf tournament in Nigeria, played between 1969 and 1999. It was generally played at the Ikoyi Club in Ikoyi, Lagos. From 1997 to...
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  • Transport in Lagos currently consists of four modes: road, water, rail and air. Lagos, as one of the most populous cities in Africa, has a vast network...
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  • The Lagos Open is a defunct WCT, Grand Prix and Challenger affiliated tennis tournament played from 1976 to 1991. It was held in Lagos in Nigeria and played...
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    was to board the Italian and German ships in the harbour and sail them to Lagos. The SSRF under the command of Major Gus March-Phillipps left Britain in...
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    The naval Battle of Lagos took place between a British fleet commanded by Edward Boscawen and a French fleet under Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran over...
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    the Lagos harbour and extension of the local telegraph network. From 1895 to 1900, a railway was constructed running from Lagos to Ibadan; it opened in...
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  • connect Lagos to London. 1888 - Lagos Chamber of Commerce established. 1889 - Court House built.[citation needed] 1894 Lagos Echo and Lagos Standard...
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    island of Aruba. The Lago refinery, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company (Exxon), remained in operation until March 31, 1985 when Exxon made the decision...
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    los Lagos (Nahuatl: Cihuapilli, lit. "Great Lady"). Miracles have been ascribed to her since 1632 and have made the Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos a...
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    Bola Tinubu (category Governors of Lagos State)
    Nigeria since 2023. He was previously the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic. Tinubu spent his early...
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    Samuel Oshoffa (category 1985 deaths)
    many people doubted this account. Oshoffa held a public meeting in Yaba, Lagos, where those gathered reported his ability to prophecy. In the same year...
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    José António de Jesus (2001). Lagos Medieval. Lagos: (edição do autor). ISBN 9729711038. Neves, José Acúrsio das (1985). História Geral da Invasão dos...
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    piece of television was the three-part Leigh Jackson thriller Downtown Lagos, produced by Michael Wearing, which in turn led to the award-winning adaptation...
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    James Pinson Labulo Davies (category People from Lagos Colony)
    well known native of Lagos, who in 1882 used to tell me about the farm he had lately just made beyond the Protectorate of Lagos. Davies was also a close...
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  • Lagos Water Corporation formerly Federal Water Supply is the principal supplier of water throughout Lagos State. It is owned by the Lagos State Government...
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    Angela Okorie (category Lagos State University alumni)
    Benin Republic. She studies theatre arts at the University of Lagos. She also attended Lagos State University, studying public administration. She is a native...
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    impetus for Abuja came because of Lagos' population boom that made that city overcrowded and conditions squalid. As Lagos was already undergoing rapid economic...
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  • Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (category Christian organizations established in 1985)
    Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) was founded in 1985 following the transformative Greater Lagos Crusade organised by Rev Uma Ukpai. This crusade brought...
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  • Dele Giwa (category People murdered in Lagos)
    founder of Newswatch magazine. He was murdered when he opened the package with a bomb at his Ikeja, Lagos residence on October 19, 1986. Sumonu Oladele "Baines"...
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  • Nabil Abdulrashid (category 1985 births)
    characters for Disney's Iwájú, an original animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria. Abdulrashid switches from surreal to satirical in his dichotomy...
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    Damilola Adegbite (category Actresses from Lagos)
    Entertainment Awards. Adegbite was born in Surulere, Lagos State. She attended Queen's College in Yaba, Lagos and studied business administration at Bowen University...
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    In Lagos, they were given the watery terrains of Popo Aguda as their settlement. By the 1880s, they comprised about 9% of the population of Lagos. Towards...
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  • at the University of Ilorin. He worked as a lecturer at Open Cast Polytechnic, Auchi, in 1985 for a year. While still lecturing at the Polytechnic, he...
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  • Toby Foyeh (category King's College, Lagos alumni)
    winner (Covergirl)" (1985) "Stay With Me (Covergirl)" (1986) "Hollywood City" (1986) Jalolo (UK) (1991) Jalolo (USA) (1999) Ilu Eko (Lagos) (2006) "Ore Mi"...
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  • Elvis Abuyere (category Businesspeople from Lagos State)
    Business Administration at National Open University in 2011. Abuyere received a management certificate from the Lagos Business School in 2020 and holds...
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    Ken Erics (category 1985 births)
    Mail Nigeria. Lagos, Nigeria. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2016. "Ken Erics: I Once Stood from Anambra to Lagos As I Couldn't...
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