American Professor of economics says Lagos is safer than Rio De Janeiro which happens to be tourists major destination.

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An American professor of economics at George Mason University, Prof. Tyler Cowen, has described Lagos, Nigeria, as being a lot more safer than tourists major destination, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Prof Cowen, who defied friends and associates’ advice not to travel to Lagos for security reasons, said that he was described as ‘crazy’ to have considered visiting Nigeria.

“Some Nigerian expats warned me I might not get out of the airport alive,” wrote Prof Cowen in his Bloomberg column on Tuesday.

“The reality is that I walked around freely and in many parts of Lagos. I didn’t try to go everywhere or at all hours, and I may have been lucky.

“Yet, not once did I feel threatened, and I strongly suspect that a trip to Lagos is safer than a trip to Rio de Janeiro, a major tourist destination.

“In my first trip to Rio I was attacked by children with pointed sticks. In my second I found myself caught in a gunfight between drug lords,” disclosed Prof Cowen.

Source: www.concisenews.global/top-story/lagos-safer-rio-de-janeiro-american-professor/

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