While the reality of the matter is that it served as the seat of government even before the amalgamation of both the northern and southern protectorate that turned into the land contraption of Nigeria by the British pilgrim maters in 1914, Lagos has been the most suitable business center point in the once in a while whole West African sub-district. What makes it more favorable as an exceptionally bustling exchange post notwithstanding amid the shameful time of slave exchange when people were being sold in the normal commercial centers like crucial products was its closeness to the ocean and the purpose behind which it is known as a position of amphibian magnificence.

Considering its unparalleled financial situated points of interest that allure on individuals in Nigeria as well as the whole West African sub-district, it can never be an exaggeration that each more than one thousand ethnic tribes of the Nigerian country is harum scarum spoke to in the city which harbors more than 10 million out of the Lagos State 14 million individuals as mistakenly reported in the Nigeria's authentic populace enumeration of 2006. The populace thickness is far beneath normal of what one can get somewhere else in the landmass Africa west, east north or south. Set aside the unfriendly investigate security, the city is exceptionally obliging to one and all regardless of who you are and wherever you may originate from.

With the development of Abuja as the new seat of government in 1976 amid the brief rule of the nation by late General Murtala Muhammed, Lagos still remained the nation's entomb pares in the nation's financial and socio-political pillar until another military organization headed by the so called General Ibrahim Babangida chose to move further hinterland and migrated at long last to Abuja in 1991. In spite of that rushed choice after the grisly upset of the majors that nearly unseated him in 1990, Lagos still clutches its position of pre-greatness in the Nigerian financial mind up till today.