LAGOS is presently experiencing such phenomenal population explosion that it is being projected to be the third largest megacity in the world by 2015.
Many are of the view that despite the 10 million figure declared by the National Population Commission in the last census exercise, the city's best possible population is 40 million. Whereas the annual population growth in the developing world is three per cent and Nigeria's is 2.7 per cent, that of Lagos stands at a stunning eight per cent and is likely to accelerate.
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