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"China is in Africa for China primarily, " he said, according to a confidential cable written by the US consul-general in Lagos.

The company used to deal with Africa only through unsolicited emails but is now considering opening an office in Lagos.

At the Lagos Trade Fair in November, China was the only country to have its own hall, where more than 50 companies displayed their wares.

He said he was an engineer working in Lagos whose wife and only child had been killed in a car accident.

"I felt I had a calling to work among Chinese traders in Lagos, " he says. "The only thing stopping me was the language barrier. "

Either way, at least half of the used equipment that arrives in Lagos by the ton is unusable and ends up in landfills.

Once back in Nigeria, Obi stays, once again, in Lagos with his friend Joseph, trying to find a job and a place of his own.

An American airline waited a year for officials to sign off on an already agreed route from Atlanta to Lagos.

Praekelt noted that when he was recently in Lagos, he saw people with 3G handsets even though such a network has yet to be built.

However, over the years, there has been a shift from Lagos to Enugu, in the eastern part of the country.

Since the beginning of the year, Nigeria's Drug Law Enforcement Agency has made 234 similar arrests at this Lagos airport.

People generally tend to see density as a problem, as anyone who's ever spent hours in traffic in Lagos or Jakarta can attest.

We request you to please give us your quotation, to include cost (FOB) sea freight charges, apapa port, Lagos - Nigeria.

People watch as a man lifts a bar containing 110 lbs of iron weights with his mouth at an open gym in Lagos March 27.

The UN predicts that Lagos, which may already contain 15m people, will grow by 2. 7% a year until 2025, double the rate of Cairo.

Yet the wire services in form and content do not recognise Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos or Cairo as clients.

Apapa market, in the heart of one of Lagos's most deprived areas, might at first glance seem archetypally west African.

Auctions are also happening in Lagos, where oil and banking have made a few very rich, though most people still live in grinding poverty.

It just beats Nigeria's Lagos and Abuja and is well ahead of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, seat of the African Union (AU).

At the invitation of President Lagos, I am very glad to pay a state visit to the beautiful Chilean Republic.

What if my roommate knew about the heart procedure that was performed in the Lagos hospital last week?

THE traffic in Lagos, Nigeria's chaotic business capital, is enough to make the most patient of travellers go mad.

Our prices are quoted on CIF Lagos basis. If you would prefer the goods to be sent by airfreight, this will be an extra charge.

Gunmen in northern Nigeria have attacked a convoy of the prominent religious leader the Emir of Kano. From Lagos, Will Ross reports.

On a recent trip to Lagos, Nigeria, Mark Mobius found himself trapped in a hotel elevator -- twice in one day.

A receipt of your specific inquiry, we immediately reported the most favorable CIF Lagos.

The state of Lagos (in which Lagos city is situated) has been improving its tax collection.

A decade ago the term was scarcely heard; today everyone from London to Lagos wants to be one.

Lagos thanked President Jiang for his comprehensive comment on Chile-China relations.

Elsewhere a crime wave is spreading; armed robberies are getting more numerous, especially in Lagos, Nigeria's huge commercial capital.

That makes me think of Lagos, which may be the third largest city on the planet by the end of the decade.

About three-quarters of Lagos's people have access to safe drinking water; the Nigerian average is less than 30%.

Lagos is booming, but it still lacks the basic infrastructure needed to adequately integrate this influx.

And the capital -- well what used to be the capital of Nigeria, Lagos, that's a taxi and you have police on them.

A city of northwest-central Nigeria northeast of Lagos. Founded by the British in1913, the city has cotton mills. Population, 202, 000.

Please quote us for the supply of the items on the enclosed enquiry form, giving your prices CNF Lagos.

Enclose from the No. 248 in the form of invoices, you will see listed in the CIF price of Lagos, including the five per cent discount.

So, we have contact with the chinese embassy here in lagos for the Enquiry for the Business Visa, they told us all the requirement.

Okuomose may be traveling throughout Thailand, North America, and Lagos, Nigeria, possibly using a false name.

Continue research and analysis on market information and competitors in shipping and logistic field in Lagos.

An officer of the State Traffic Management Agency directs cars and pedestrians in Lagos on Dec.

Ricardo Lagos Escobar is the former President of Chile, and former Education Minister and Minister of Public Works.

The buoyant mood extends to the boardrooms and watering holes of Lagos, the business capital.

Wonderful hill views, Lagos, fields and forests that produce feelings of peace and tranquility .

Turkish Airlines now has regular flights to Addis Ababa, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi.

In Lagos, Mr Cameron painted a vision of British aid as a catalyst for economic growth.

Pipeline explosions, like in the one that killed more than 100 people outside Lagos in 2008, are increasingly frequent as well.

THE streets of Ajegunle, a notoriously poor and crowded district of Lagos, barely deserve the description.

Lagos extended a warm welcome to President Jiang for his first state visit to Chile.

this week, rebels for the first time attacked Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing eight guards and setting oil facilities ablaze.

Kruger had earlier claimed that the so-called prophet Joshua, a Nigerian preacher, had also cured him during a visit to Lagos in 2001.

Dana Airlines is a domestic air carrier that operates a fleet of Boeing MD-83 aircraft for the hour-long flight from Abuja to Lagos.

Beijing ranked just below Lagos, Nigeria, in the WHO's assessment, which relies on official country data.

Promenade through Monchique mountain and Lagos, city of discoveries.

He had flown from Accra in Ghana to Lagos in Nigeria, where he boarded a flight to Amsterdam before changing planes for Detroit.

Today, I don't know, maybe a guy got on a plane in Lagos this morning, and he's flying to LAX, right now he's over Ohio.

China announced that it is to build an oil refinery in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, for $8 billion.

Access to the fast-track channel at Lagos airport can be bought from touts for $10.

Most sweet spots are in the south-west, in or close to Lagos.

Nigeria: Rump Niger Delta including Port Harcourt; States of Kano, Kanduna, Lagos, Ondo and Plateau. The Niger border.

A hawker sells mobile phone covers in a street market in Ajeromi, a poor neighbourhood of Lagos.

The most powerful crime syndicates are involved, says Lamorde Ibrahim, the commission's director of operations in Lagos.

After receiving his BA, Chinua Achebe taught and joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos in 1954.

"Freedom" is the most critical issue facing democracies today, Lagos said.

A Nigerian politician has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling cocaine at Lagos airport.

"It was a work of art, a political statement and at the same time an act of love with our bodies, " said university student Juan Lagos.

Bogota, Lagos, Calcutta, Istanbul, Manila, Tehran and other cities to adopt this strategy.

Because of this, the report says, e-waste is a growing problem in Lagos, Nigeria, and elsewhere in the developing world.

Lagos said that Chile and China share the same or similar views on many major international issues.

Literacy rates in the north-east are two-thirds lower than in Lagos, the southern business hub.

I also produced and directed a film with Louis Theroux about law and order in Lagos.

Emmanuel Amunike, who played briefly for Barcelona and 30 times for Nigeria, opened a school in 2008 outside Lagos, the financial capital.

In 2000, Bachelet was named health minister by current Chilean President Ricardo Lagos.

The main ports along the coast Lome, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Douala and Malabo, and so on.

I am the one who asked you a question. Why do all of you waiters and gate men and drivers in this Lagos refuse to greet me?

Above, a congested street in Lagos sprawls to the horizon.

The whirr of diesel generators is the soundtrack of Lagos life.

The first geographical area of focus is Lagos, Nigerias commercial hub and second most populous city.

But just outside the terminal, housed in the rundown Lagos district of Apapa, a long queue of trucks stretches out from the gate.

Mr Oyekunle runs a property consultancy in Lagos, Nigeria's business capital.

He went straight to Lagos, without stopping in Nairobi.

I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer .

That invitation letter issue by your Local Government is the one they accept at the chinese Embassy here in Lagos Nigeria .

The Pan -African University in Lagos , Nigeria is also a partner .

When 13 traders from eastern Nigeria arrived at the allotted spot for their new market outside Lagos in 1977 , the vista was not promising .

At the E-Centre shopping mall in Lagos, event planner Fumilayo Odamusi considers buying a Huawei phone.

A city of north-central Nigeria northeast of Lagos.

We are pleased to give you a firm offer of Forever brand bicycle at CIF Lagos.

Literacy rates in the north-east are two-thirds lower than in Lagos.

Glo Mobile 3G network is available in Lagos, Abuja, Benin and Port Harcourt.

And, thus, he leaves for England, stopping in Lagos on the way out.

"We don't want to start afresh again, " said an architect casting his vote in Lagos.

See Neuwirth's recent video from Lagos, Nigeria, presented at Postopolis! 2007.

Abuja was designated the new capital in 982, but Lagos remains the economic and commercial center. Population, , 404, 000.

Mine is a confirming house in Lagos.

We offer you 1500 Forever Bicycles at US$32 per piece CIF Lagos for delivery in May.

We are pleased to inf. mp3 you that 50 cases of adjustable wrenches you shipped to Lagos on March 18th have arrived in perfect condition.

Lagos, the bigest and most prosperity city of Nigeria, the population is 700 thousands in 1960, it's over 10 millions now-a-day.

An evening dress, designed by Norman Hartnell, worn in Lagos on 2 Febrary 1956 during a tour of Nigeria.

By 2025, however, it will have been overtaken by both Lagos (15. 8m) and Kinshasa (15m).

Shortly after he published my first novel I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview.

But after nearly a decade in Lagos, Jun says it's no longer worth it. He figures he can make more money back home.

Attached to this letter you will find our proforma invoice NO. 248 cover the price list is CIF Lagos, including 5% discount.

'When the agent phoned to tell him I was in Lagos, I heard Keshi shout with joy, ' says Lamptey, who was then 14 years old.

We are pleased to give you a permanent place bicycle Lagos reported that the cost of insurance and freight of the real disk;

Lagos Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic Development of Africa;

Loomnie, who blogs from Germany and originally hails from Lagos, Nigeria makes the connection between rural and informal economies in Africa

Lagos Declaration for Action against Apartheid;

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Lagos Accord on National Reconciliation in Chad;

Lagoon Lagos Plan of Action

May 6th 2010 | LAGOS | From The Economist print edition