INT'L OPINION POLL: Lagos Makes The WSJ's 25 Most Innovative Cities In The World List

Lagos Makes The WSJ's 25 Most Innovative Cities In The World List

Foremost US magazine, Wall Street Journal, has included our beloved state, Lagos State, in the 25 most innovative cities in the world.

Reason for Inclusion: 

Urban Land Institute: Progress & Potential

First Round Voters: Economic/Investment Climate

• The city’s urban population has grown 6% to 8% annually in recent years, ballooning to 18 million people in 2010.
• Frontier Strategy Group named Lagos one of the “Big 5” cities in Africa, projecting that it will soon outpace Johannesburg in business opportunities.
• Under Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, Lagos instituted a science- and technology-based Innovation Advisory Council.
• Lagos’s GDP is $33 billion, and accounts for roughly 25% of Nigeria’s overall GDP.
• The city is Nigeria’s “gate to the sea,” accounting for 80 %of national seaport activity

Other cities in the top 25 list are:

Seattle, Hong Kong , São Paulo, Shanghai, Boston, Medellín, London, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Hamburg, Raleigh-Durham, Chicago, Vancouver, Cape Town, Vienna, Toronto, Copenhagen, Bratislava, Singapore, Shenzhen, New York, Atlanta, Melbourne, and Berlin.

Can Lagos make it to the top three? It is your vote that will decide that. If you're proud Lagosian, visit here to vote for Lagos to be among the top three most innovative cities in the world.