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But these regions aren’t dwarfing Computer Village’s significance. The expansive hub is one of Lagos’s major commercial sprawls. It’s also West Africa’s largest ICT products market, with over 3,000 traders working from its cluster of shops. And if you’re wondering how this size does for Lagos’s economy, you might consider its annual revenues, put at about $2 billion.

One of such marvels that live on today, is the Ayo game — a Yoruba traditional board game, usually played by two people on a semi rectangular wooden board, composed of two rows of six carved holes each.

Decades past, eggshell powder processed from eggs has been used as a natural calcium supplement. Eggshells are roughly 40% calcium, with each gram providing 381–401 mg. Half an eggshell may provide enough calcium to meet the daily requirements for adults, which is 1,000 mg per day.

This road is in fact named after Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, one of the earliest Nigerians who could be properly described as a business mogul. His accomplishments secured him a place in the history of Lagos, and of the country in general. It’s hard to tell a comprehensive story of Nigeria’s commerce and industry which doesn’t have a reference to Mr. Bank-Anthony, the serial entrepreneur and one time council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange.

Nigeria stood in awe of this remarkable couple who both won National Titles in the men and women’s 5000m events, on Day 1 of the 2016 Nigerian Trials in Sapele, Delta State.

While that is noteworthy, there is actually a remarkable aspect of Samuel Okwaraji’s life that most people are ignorant of; His extensive training and qualification as a Lawyer.

Every part of Nigeria has some crop or produce being cultivated; from Cocoa plantations in the West to Palm Plantations in the East, from the Root crops in the South, down to the large hectares of grains and legumes in the North. (Not to talk about the Middle belt where we have the ‘Food Basket of the Nation’). Nigeria is blessed with a huge variety of crops, vegetables and fruits. In the midst of all this abundance however, do you know that certain vegetables and fruits are only produced in commercial quantities in Jos Plateau and no-where else in Nigeria?

But maybe Lagos’s path to commercial preeminence in the West African subregion was predictable after all. For decades, it was the political capital of an oil-producing country; and before that, it was the chief administrative centre of the British colonialists. Many of the country’s brightest and most entrepreneurial people have been (and still are) drawn to it by opportunities that have been ‘lubricated’ by oil wealth from further South. The combination of political, economic and human capital advantages have simply thrust Lagos unto its present dominant position.

The two ladies, Niniola and Teniola (Teni), who have over a short period have etched their names into the Who is Who of the Nigerian entertainment industry, are daughters of late Chief Simeon Olaosebikan Apata, an educationist from Ondo state who founded the famous Apata Memorial Schools, Isolo, in Lagos state.

The celebration of the women ought to be amplified. Countless women have shown that talent, skill, zeal and…