On this Wikipedia first valentines gift for him language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Lagos is the largest and former capital city of Nigeria and the largest city in Africa in terms of population with about 15. 3 million people living in it.

It is also the 4th largest economy in Africa. Lagos is in Lagos State in South-Western Nigeria. It is bounded on the west by the Republic of Benin, to the north and east by Ogun State with the Atlantic Ocean providing a coastline on the south. Lagos means “lakes” in Portuguese, the language of the first Europeans to arrive at the land already long inhabited by the Awori which belonged to the Yoruba people. To the Awori, the area was initially known as “Oko”. To differentiate the modern settlement from the older kingdom in the area, the name “Onim” has been applied to the latter by some historian such as Toby Green.

The island of Lagos was inhabited by Yoruba fishermen and hunters at least since the 15th century. In 1472, Portuguese explorers arrived, and began to trade, eventually followed by other Europeans. In the 17th century, the trade with the Portuguese also began to increase, as Onim became a center of the Atlantic slave trade. By the early 19th century, it was a small kingdom and a tributary to the Oyo Empire. Like many West African states, Onim developed strong diplomatic as well as economic links to South America. Newspaper illustration from 1852, showing the destruction of Lagos by British forces.