Lagos, the biggest city in Nigeria, is quick getting to be plainly one of the biggest urban areas on the planet — 21 million individuals are thought to live inside its points of confinement and its populace is required to outperform Cairo's by 2015 to turning into the greatest city in Africa.

It's additionally getting to be noticeably famous for another reason — the incredible movement.

Joshua Hammer as of late expounded on the city's car issue for The Atlantic. "My driver picked this beach front course while taking me from the Benin outskirt to Lagos, a separation of around 40 miles," Hammer composes. "What I had accepted would be a standard drive transformed into an epic, 12-hour travel, and a lesson in the brokenness and guiltiness of Africa's most crowded country."

What's behind the bad dream? A report today by Jon Grambell for the AP calls attention to two noteworthy purposes behind the activity. In the first place, geology. The city's monetary center point sits on an island with just restricted access. In the event that something turns out badly on these streets, the whole city gets went down.