{"id":82605,"date":"2019-03-11T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veryhungrynomads.com\/is-it-safe-to-walk-around-in-lagos-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T21:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:43:28","slug":"is-it-safe-to-walk-around-in-lagos-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veryhungrynomads.com\/is-it-safe-to-walk-around-in-lagos-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Safe to Walk around in Lagos, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigeria is a country with a population of 190 million people, and 21 million people live in Lagos. Around 50% of the population live in extreme poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, is it safe to walk around in Lagos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click. The sounds of four car doors locking shut. I became very familiar with this sound over the next four days in Lagos. It began with our first Uber ride upon our arrival at the airport to our hotel – Villa Thirty Three.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that first drive through the city, I realised why this happens here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any time of the day or night, Lagos is filled with people of all ages, the elderly and very small children begging at our car windows while we wait for the traffic lights to change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many of them are in wheelchairs or missing limbs and they’re knocking on every window pleading and begging for money or food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that any time anybody gets into a private vehicle here, the first thing they do is lock all the doors for personal safety and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poverty in Lagos is overwhelming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The amount of people clearly struck by poverty is overwhelming. I’ve experienced many very poor cities around the world, however, in Lagos, I found it hard to oversee the magnitude of this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps I wasn’t prepared for this issue to be so big or maybe it’s because from what I have learned, Nigeria has so much money from the oil it produces. So what actually happens to this money and what is it spent on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s clear to see that none of this trickles down to the poor people, they’re left to continue begging and sleeping in the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a big city. What area should you choose to stay in Lagos?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we booked our hotel in Lagos, we had to consider the location and price. Everybody told us to stay on Lagos Island or close-by to have the best experience here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any way you look at it, Lagos is an expensive city and the hotel prices reflect this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would have loved to stay at The Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel<\/a> because this hotel is in a top location and the facilities are fantastic, but our budget doesn’t allow us to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n