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    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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    Lagos (/ˈleɪɡɒs/ LAY-goss; also US: /ˈlɑːɡoʊs/ LAH-gohss; Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a city in Nigeria. With an estimated population of 21 million...
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    the seamen of Lagos were already unscrupulous slave traders. From the first slave markets in Lagos (the Mercado de Escravos, which opened in 1444), many...
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    Lagos State University, popularly known as LASU, is a Lagos state government-owned universtiy established in 1983. Its main campus is situated at Ojo...
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  • newspaper, established in 1983, published by Guardian Newspapers Limited in Lagos, Nigeria. The Guardian was established in 1983 by Alex Ibru, an entrepreneur...
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    The University of Lagos (UNILAG) is a public research university located in Lagos, Nigeria, which was founded in 1962. UNILAG is one of the first generation...
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    Lagos Central Mosque is an important jum'at mosque in Lagos Island and home of the Chief Imam of Lagos. It is located along the busy Nnamdi Azikiwe Street...
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  • Lateef Jakande (category Governors of Lagos State)
    area of Lagos Island, Lagos State on July 29, 1929. Both parents are from Omu-Aran, Kwara State. He had his primary school education at the Lagos Public...
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    as NOUN. The university was initially established on 22 July 1983 as springboard for open and distance learning in Nigeria. It was suspended by the government...
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    Ikeja (redirect from Ikeja, Lagos State)
    became an agricultural hinterland for Lagos. The opening of the Lagos-Ibadan railway in 1901 and the growth of Lagos as a port transformed Ikeja into a residential...
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    The Lagos Marathon is a gold label marathon held annually in Lagos, Nigeria. The origins of the event trace back to 1983 when the first marathon took place...
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    Retrieved 17 July 2022. Ogbu, Rachel. "A Race for Stars Only". Newswatch. Lagos, Nigeria. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 9 August...
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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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    Bola Tinubu (category Governors of Lagos State)
    current president of Nigeria. He was 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Treaty between Great Britain and Lagos on 1 January 1852. Britain annexed Lagos as a crown colony in August 1861 with the Lagos Treaty of Cession. British missionaries...
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  • No Longer at Ease (category Novels set in Lagos)
    dance. Obi returns to Nigeria after four years of studies and lives in Lagos with his friend Joseph. He takes a job with the Scholarship Board and is...
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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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    Helen Paul (category Singers from Lagos)
    University of Lagos. Paul has worked and served as a freelance and full-time presenter at several media houses in Nigeria. These include Lagos Television...
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  • Methodist Boys' High School, Lagos (MBHS Lagos) is a secondary school for boys located in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Founded in 1878, it was the...
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    Femi Gbajabiamila (category Politicians from Lagos)
    was accepted into the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) with honours in 1983 and was called to the Nigerian bar...
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    Christian Church of God (RCCG) international headquarters in Ebute Meta, Lagos, the General Overseer of the Church, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, shared...
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    Redeemed Christian Church of God (category Churches in Lagos)
    and denomination in Lagos, Nigeria. Enoch Adeboye has been the General Overseer (most senior pastor) since 1981. The church in Lagos had an average church...
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  • Victor Uwaifo (category St Gregory's College, Lagos alumni)
    music at St Gregory's College, Lagos. He was a contemporary of Segun Bucknor, and they were both among the leading Lagos high school bandleaders at the...
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  • Society for Family Health Nigeria (category Organizations established in 1983)
    partnerships with pharmaceutical companies to distribute Gold Circle condoms in Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun States, in South Western Nigeria. It soon scaled up its operations...
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    Henry Dele Alake (category University of Lagos alumni)
    Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (E.N.G.E). Lagos State. "Past Commissioners, Lagos State". Lagos State Government. Retrieved 28 October 2011. CHRISTIAN...
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    Nnamdi Azikiwe (category University of Lagos people)
    while his father was working in Lagos, Azikiwe was bitten by a dog; this prompted his worried father to send him to Lagos, that he may heal and continue...
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    of Lagos State filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Nigeria, for the apex court to uphold the previous death by hanging verdict of the Lagos High...
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