Town planners fault EIU’s assessment of Lagos,say Ambode has done well

The assessment of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), describing Lagos State as the third worst city to live in among 140 cities worldwide, received the irk of Professional Town Planners in Lagos, say the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has done well judging from his urban redevelopment drives.

Condemning what he described as stereotype assessment, Mr Tunji Adelana, a US-based planner, said if Lagos was ranked 138th of the 140 countries ranked by the EIU in its 2018 report, which position is Ethiopia, Eritrea, Khartoum and other cities?

“Just like the period when Lagos was tagged “the dirtiest city in the world,” the same stereotype is still holds by many analysts of the western bias.

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“Categorising Lagos in the same peestal with Syria’s war-torn capital, Damascus, and Bangladesh’s Dhaka. Where both…