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Nigeria: Lagos in a jam

By Andrew Thomas

Updated on 25 October 2007

More4 News reports from Lagos, where traffic has reached breaking point.

In less than two decades, the city's population has exploded from two to 15million. Some estimates rank Lagos as the fastest growing city in the world.

That growth has come at a cost.

Lagos is a city with barely any public infrastructure. But this autumn a new centrally-driven transport strategy is being launched there. The scale of the challenge, however, is enormous.

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