Lagos la Vida Loca: Vanguard

By next year, more than half the world's population will for the first time in history be living in cities. Current Vanguard's Mariana van Zeller tours Lagos, Nigeria, the world's fastest-growing "Megacity."
"Vanguard," airing Mondays at 9/8c on Current TV, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance.
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[miskee11]

Often when an area is rich in oil, the area becomes (even more) impoverished. Why? Foreign companies take the oil and frequently import their own workers to work there (in essence they are stealing jobs), they fuel wars, conflicts and general discord among the inhabitants of the area due to their actions. These conflicts actually benefit the oil companies as they effectly divert the negative attention of their thefts to something else. It is speculated that the Darfur conflict is caused by oil.

[miskee11]

Your comment was self-contradictory, and thus the content of your message in its entirety is very hard for many people to consider either truthful or significant in any way. You should rephrase your observation to look less judgemental & cantankerous so that it would be easier to internalize for us fucking white racist bitches.

Oh, and to comment your actual message I must say that I agree with you to a certain degree, but since YouTube doesn't allow lengthy messages, I can't be more detailed.

[Hector Robayo]

Marian hello and congratulations for this excellent documentary, you're a berraca and excellent correspondent and it shows good because you had a lot of risk in this documentary, I congratulate you and wish you much success in your upcoming projects, greetings from Bogota Colombia

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[jxsilicon9]

He's not entirely wrong. Nigeria has the fastest growing telecom industry,building satellites,etc. They have the potential to lead the continent and build a GDP over trillions. But they have to deal with the corruption,wealth gap,etc. Throw in some universal healthcare,hire as much people as possible for infrastructure work,provide free college education. It will change everything.

[Bobby sokkatua]

fucking white people ,how come you are only showing the negative pictures,there are places in Lagos that resembles downtown Toronto or any city in the west, you idiots just wanna portray africans as barbaric nonentities .Why dont you chronicle places like Ikoyi,victoria island ,banana island and VGC,fucking racist bitches

[ehohkay]

there should be a patrol of soldiers who stomp the shit outta pregnant bitches and kick 14 year boys in the balls so this population can no longer breed. poison was my first thought, but i would hate for nature to suffer anymore because of this cancerous city. also a squad of ball kickers and prego stompers creates employment, promotes fitness and social awareness.

[lucci999]

no i didn't mean that ,what im saying is that Nigeria got oil ....

[krnpowr]

Nigeria, a rich country??? I bet you think Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, and Angola are rich countries too. Seems like you've lived under a rock all your life.

[lucci999]

i thought Nigeria is a rich country,seems the ppl over there are poor ,but we can see that they are cool

[ezes6zy]

i grew up in Orile, Sari Iganmu in Lagos, Nigeria . I don't miss it but I definitely miss speaking broken english for sure...