Nigeria: Lagos Needs U.S.$60 Billion to Build Mega City

9 February 2012

To accommodate over 18 million people, a number that is still growing, the Lagos State, Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, said the state government needs about $60 billion to realize its plan of transforming the state into one of the mega cities of the 21st century.

The Commissioner made this known on Wednesday in Lagos while hosting members of the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), Lagos chapter, in his Ikeja office.

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