Chief port and economic center of Nigeria

Usage examples of lagos.

Lagos, was devoted entirely to the report of Meyer Horowitz on the iceberg Alamo operation.

Absolutely no one ever chose to go to Lagos as Lagos ran Ulan Bator close in career non-advancement.

Western Soudan, limp Fellaheen from Lower Egypt, an Egba who had served in the British Police Force at Lagos, merchants from the back of the Barbary States, workers in metal from Sokoto, and weavers from Timbukhtu.

We and the Russians, the ones being reviled in Cairo and Beijing, in Caracas and Lagos and wherever, we saved the world from megadeaths, to be followed by radioactive fallout and maybe nuclear winter.

In Africa, there were the ports of Lagos in Nigeria, and Monrovia in Liberia.

Cousin Jenny had gotten an admin job at the nuclear steelmaking complex that was just going into operation outside Lagos.

With an entourage of five, I climbed aboard a jet liner scheduled for Lagos.

Lagos grouped them into four broad categories: Biblical studies, Sumerian studies, neurolinguistic studies, and intel gathered on L.

Cambodia had fallen to the Khmer Rouge, Lagos was falling to the Pathet Lao, and the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong were about to enter Saigon.

You think you're the blue paper in my potato crisps, but I can work you over my way and still have enough left to shovel up for the Lagos cops.

So Lagos was trying to say that the newborn human brain has no structure-as the relativists would have it-and that as the child learns a language, the developing brain structures itself accordingly, the language gets 'blown into' the 'hardware and becomes a permanent part of the brain's deep structure-as the universalists would have it.

Densas selvas cubrieron las llanuras, ríos caudalosos se abrieron paso hasta el mar, surgieron montañas abruptas y los lagos cubrieron las ruinas de las antiguas ciudades situadas en los fértiles valles.

From New York, brainpox would rocket to London and Tokyo, and it would fly to Lagos, Nigeria, and it would land in Shanghai and Sipgapore, and it would amplify through Calcutta, and it would get to Sao Paulo and Mexico City and Dacca in Bangladesh and Djakarta in Indonesia and all the great supercities of the earth.

After all, Lagos streets have mudholes equally deep, and buildings (in less attractive parts of the city) equally ramshackle, and it had developed with the same disdain of urban planning.