ABSTRACT
Addressing the Africa Leadership Forum in 1988, Colonel Raji Rasaki, Military Governor Of Lagos State prefaced his lengthy recommendations for the better management of the then Nigerian capital with the assertion that:
Metropolitan Lagos means so many different things to its diverse inhabitants and visitors. To some, it is the centre of civilisation, sophistication, wealth, opulence and the haven of the elite. To others, it is the heart of decadence ZKHUHRQO\WKH¿WWHVWVXUYLYHDMXQJOHFLW\RIFKDRVZKHUHQRWKLQJZRUNVEXW for pickpockets, armed robbers and fraudulent characters.
