Nigeria, Jan. 3 -- Lagos State remains Nigeria's most diverse and cosmopolitan city, with many positives and negatives, including being economically ambitious, administratively assertive, yet persistently vulnerable to the pressures of rapid urbanisation.

PREMIUM TIMES' coverage of the state over the year revealed a megacity increasingly governed through regulation and enforcement, even as long-standing problems in housing, water and sanitation, transport safety, and infrastructure resilience remained unresolved.

From political tension at the Lagos State House of Assembly in January to fatal fires, transport accidents, and demolition threats in December, Lagos's story in 2025 was less about structural transformation than about containme...