Lagos
Twenty-odd million people and the loudest music industry in Africa. Lagos Island holds the old colonial core; the beaches and the parties are on the Lekki side of the bridges.
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Wikipedia · 4 Sep 2026
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Freedom Park is a memorial and leisure park area in the middle of downtown Lagos in Lagos Island, Nigeria which was formerly Her Majesty's Broad Street Prison. It was designed by the architect Theo Lawson as a speculative project under the CIA-Lagos in 1999.
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FrankvEck · CC BY-SA 4.0
Iga Idunganran is the Official Residence of the Oba of Lagos, situated on Lagos Island, in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Yemi festus · CC BY-SA 4.0
The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History is a museum in Onikan that uses new technology to introduce visitors to Yoruba culture. It is situated in the immediate vicinity of the National Museum, the MUSON Conservatoire and Tafawa Balewa Square, where Nigeria’s independence was declared in 1960.
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Isaacayodele32 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lagos, or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan port city in southwestern Nigeria. As of November 2025, the size of the city's population has been estimated to be between 17 and 21 million residents, making Lagos the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world.
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Koutchika Lihouenou Gaspard · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nigerian National Museum is a national museum of Nigeria, located in the city of Lagos. The museum has a notable collection of Nigerian art, including pieces of statuary, carvings, and archaeological and ethnographic exhibits. Of note is a terracotta human head known as the Jemaa Head, part of the Nok culture.
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crashdburnd · CC BY-SA 2.0
Shitta-Bey Mosque is a mosque, religious learning centre and one of the oldest mosques in Southern Nigeria and the first internationally recognised mosque in Nigeria. The mosque is located at Martins Ereko Street, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria. It was established in 1892 and designated as National monument by Nigerian Commission for Museums and Monuments in 2013.
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Beendy234 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tinubu Square, formerly Independence Square, is an open space landmark located in Broad Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria named after the Yoruba slave trader, merchant, and aristocrat Madam Efunroye Tinubu. It was formerly called Ita Tinubu before it was named Independence Square by leaders of the First Nigerian Republic after Nigerian independence and subsequently Tinubu Square.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 7 Aug 2026
Jeremy Weate from Abuja, Nigeria · CC BY 2.0
Freedom Park is a memorial and leisure park area in the middle of downtown Lagos in Lagos Island, Nigeria which was formerly Her Majesty's Broad Street Prison. It was designed by the architect Theo Lawson as a speculative project under the CIA-Lagos in 1999.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Aug 2026
FrankvEck · CC BY-SA 4.0
Iga Idunganran is the Official Residence of the Oba of Lagos, situated on Lagos Island, in Lagos, Nigeria.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 7 Aug 2026
Yemi festus · CC BY-SA 4.0
The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History is a museum in Onikan that uses new technology to introduce visitors to Yoruba culture. It is situated in the immediate vicinity of the National Museum, the MUSON Conservatoire and Tafawa Balewa Square, where Nigeria’s independence was declared in 1960.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 9 Aug 2026
Isaacayodele32 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lagos, or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan port city in southwestern Nigeria. As of November 2025, the size of the city's population has been estimated to be between 17 and 21 million residents, making Lagos the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4 Sep 2026
Koutchika Lihouenou Gaspard · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Nigerian National Museum is a national museum of Nigeria, located in the city of Lagos. The museum has a notable collection of Nigerian art, including pieces of statuary, carvings, and archaeological and ethnographic exhibits. Of note is a terracotta human head known as the Jemaa Head, part of the Nok culture.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 7 Aug 2026
crashdburnd · CC BY-SA 2.0