₦airaland Forum

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 6:20:17 WAT
By Mohammed Bello Doka




Nigeria is a federation in name, but under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is beginning to look like a country governed from one city, for one city, and in the image of one city. What is unfolding before our eyes is not announced, not debated, and not legislated—but it is real. By policy choices, budget priorities, and institutional drift, Lagos is being rebuilt as Nigeria’s de facto administrative–economic capital, while vast swathes of the country are left to decay.

FAAN, CBN (key departments), BOI, NPA and NIMASA.

These are not minor agencies. They are the command centres of aviation, finance, industry, ports, and maritime regulation. When such institutions either move their headquarters to Lagos or concentrate their real power there, the question practically asks itself: if power, money, and decision-making all live in Lagos, what exactly is Abuja for—and what is left for the rest of Nigeria?


Let us begin with the facts.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has formally relocated its headquarters from Abuja to Lagos. The justification offered was “operational efficiency” because Lagos handles the bulk of air traffic. Yet Abuja remains the constitutional seat of government. No constitutional amendment was sought. No national debate was held. A major federal institution simply packed up and moved.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, officially headquartered in Abuja, has quietly transferred some of its most powerful departments—Banking Supervision, Payments System Management, Consumer Protection, Financial Policy and Regulation—to Lagos. Anyone who understands how banking regulation works knows the truth: where supervision sits, power sits. Abuja may keep the signage, but Lagos now holds the nerve centre.


The Bank of Industry has received Federal Executive Council approval for a new headquarters in Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, effectively relocating its functional command base from Abuja. A development finance institution, meant to catalyse industrial growth across Nigeria, is now planting its flag in one of the most exclusive real-estate enclaves in Africa.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and NIMASA, though nominally federal, have long operated as Lagos-centric agencies. Under Tinubu, this imbalance has not been corrected—it has been reinforced.

Piece by piece, institution by institution, Lagos is being reassembled as Nigeria’s true capital—without Nigerians ever being asked.

If the institutional drift raises suspicion, the budgetary figures remove all doubt.

Consider the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, a flagship federal project championed by the Tinubu administration. The road, stretching roughly 700 kilometres, has been reported in multiple credible sources as costing between N14 trillion and N15 trillion when completed. Even the first tranche alone approved by the Federal Executive Council—N1.334 trillion for about 130 kilometres—is staggering.


Now place that figure beside the reality of northern Nigeria.

According to compiled 2025 approved state budgets:

Yobe State: N320.8 billion

Gombe State: under N500 billion

Taraba State: under N500 billion

Nasarawa State: under N500 billion

Adamawa State: under N500 billion

Seven of the ten states with the smallest budgets in Nigeria are in the North. The combined budgets of the ten lowest-spending states nationwide amount to about N4.2 trillion.

Let that sink in.

A single federal road corridor, anchored in Lagos and running along the coast, is projected to cost over three times the combined annual budgets of ten Nigerian states, most of them northern. Even the N1.334 trillion first phase alone is larger than the entire annual budget of multiple northern states.

This is not development. This is concentration.

While trillions flow southward into concrete, glass, and coastal highways, the North is bleeding.


Insurgency and banditry continue to cripple the North-East and North-West.

According to displacement tracking data, millions of Nigerians remain internally displaced, with the highest concentration in northern states.

Poverty indices consistently show the highest multidimensional poverty rates in the North.

Literacy figures reveal a scandalous educational divide, with some northern states recording single-digit literacy rates, while parts of the South approach near-universal literacy.


These are not abstract statistics. They translate into: children out of school, communities cut off by insecurity, markets unable to function, states trapped in survival mode.

And yet, when the Tinubu administration reaches for its biggest chequebook, it reaches—not northward—but towards Lagos.

Let this be clear: Lagos is not the enemy. Lagos is industrious, vibrant, and economically vital. But no federation survives when one city becomes the gravitational centre of everything—capital, institutions, infrastructure, and influence—while others are treated as afterthoughts.


Abuja was created to prevent exactly this outcome. It was meant to neutralise regional dominance, balance power, and symbolise national ownership. What Tinubu’s Lagos-centric governance does is quietly undo the philosophy of the Nigerian federation, not by law, but by practice.

A federation does not collapse only through coups or constitutions. Sometimes it collapses through budget lines, headquarters relocations, and silent administrative decisions.

To the North, the message is clear: endure insecurity and poverty while watching national wealth pass you by.

To the South East, already starved of federal presence, the message is familiar: you are not a priority.

To the South South, the resource zone of the federation, the message is bitterly ironic: your oil may fund the centre, but the centre lives elsewhere.

And to Lagos, the message is unmistakable: you are the centre of the republic.

President Tinubu owes Nigerians an answer—not rhetoric, not slogans, but an answer grounded in policy logic:

Is Nigeria still a federation, or is it being reorganised around Lagos by stealth?


Because when: federal agencies move,
regulatory power relocates, development banks follow and trillions in infrastructure spending cluster in one axis, then what is happening is not accidental.

And that choice, left unchecked, risks turning Nigeria into a country where citizenship depends on geography, and national unity becomes a slogan rather than a lived reality.

History has shown—again and again—that nations do not fracture only from rebellion. Sometimes, they fracture from neglect dressed up as efficiency.

Nigeria should be careful.



Bello Doka can be reached via bellodoka82@gmail.com

Abuja Network News

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Such kind of thing could be expected of him...... that's the kind of things he's good at but governance is f9.

What is NIMASA doing in the north if not in the southsouth or southwest? What is the business of the the Navy with the North? The military power is concentrated in the North, but you won't allow the south to hold the economic power? You cited the budgets for some northern states but not the corresponding earnings of these states to the national purse? The joke is on you! All Nigerian banks are headquartered in Lagos, yet you want its supervisory body to be far away in Abuja. Are you okay? Over 70% of influx into the country is through Murtala airport in Lagos, yet you want FAAN to be calling the shots from Abuja? Are you really that insecure! How about we share the base of the government seat of power! Let the north hold the executive and the other arms be moved to other regions, Judiciary should go to the East, Lesgisture to the south.. How is that for a federating state?

This piece is a well-crafted response to the unwarranted complaints about the relocation of agencies.

Go to court and stop nagging

The private companies that are also relocating to Lagos state, it must be the handiwork of the president

You seem bereft of elementary exercise in thought processing. Get at uaribamza

helinues:
Go to court and stop nagging

The private companies that are also relocating to Lagos state, it must be the handiwork of the president

Stiv19cuff:
Thu, 25 Dec 2025 6:20:17 WAT
By Mohammed Bello Doka




Nigeria is a federation in name, but under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is beginning to look like a country governed from one city, for one city, and in the image of one city. What is unfolding before our eyes is not announced, not debated, and not legislated—but it is real. By policy choices, budget priorities, and institutional drift, Lagos is being rebuilt as Nigeria’s de facto administrative–economic capital, while vast swathes of the country are left to decay.

FAAN, CBN (key departments), BOI, NPA and NIMASA.

These are not minor agencies. They are the command centres of aviation, finance, industry, ports, and maritime regulation. When such institutions either move their headquarters to Lagos or concentrate their real power there, the question practically asks itself: if power, money, and decision-making all live in Lagos, what exactly is Abuja for—and what is left for the rest of Nigeria?


Let us begin with the facts.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has formally relocated its headquarters from Abuja to Lagos. The justification offered was “operational efficiency” because Lagos handles the bulk of air traffic. Yet Abuja remains the constitutional seat of government. No constitutional amendment was sought. No national debate was held. A major federal institution simply packed up and moved.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, officially headquartered in Abuja, has quietly transferred some of its most powerful departments—Banking Supervision, Payments System Management, Consumer Protection, Financial Policy and Regulation—to Lagos. Anyone who understands how banking regulation works knows the truth: where supervision sits, power sits. Abuja may keep the signage, but Lagos now holds the nerve centre.


The Bank of Industry has received Federal Executive Council approval for a new headquarters in Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, effectively relocating its functional command base from Abuja. A development finance institution, meant to catalyse industrial growth across Nigeria, is now planting its flag in one of the most exclusive real-estate enclaves in Africa.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and NIMASA, though nominally federal, have long operated as Lagos-centric agencies. Under Tinubu, this imbalance has not been corrected—it has been reinforced.

Piece by piece, institution by institution, Lagos is being reassembled as Nigeria’s true capital—without Nigerians ever being asked.

If the institutional drift raises suspicion, the budgetary figures remove all doubt.

Consider the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, a flagship federal project championed by the Tinubu administration. The road, stretching roughly 700 kilometres, has been reported in multiple credible sources as costing between N14 trillion and N15 trillion when completed. Even the first tranche alone approved by the Federal Executive Council—N1.334 trillion for about 130 kilometres—is staggering.


Now place that figure beside the reality of northern Nigeria.

According to compiled 2025 approved state budgets:

Yobe State: N320.8 billion

Gombe State: under N500 billion

Taraba State: under N500 billion

Nasarawa State: under N500 billion

Adamawa State: under N500 billion

Seven of the ten states with the smallest budgets in Nigeria are in the North. The combined budgets of the ten lowest-spending states nationwide amount to about N4.2 trillion.

Let that sink in.

A single federal road corridor, anchored in Lagos and running along the coast, is projected to cost over three times the combined annual budgets of ten Nigerian states, most of them northern. Even the N1.334 trillion first phase alone is larger than the entire annual budget of multiple northern states.

This is not development. This is concentration.

While trillions flow southward into concrete, glass, and coastal highways, the North is bleeding.


Insurgency and banditry continue to cripple the North-East and North-West.

According to displacement tracking data, millions of Nigerians remain internally displaced, with the highest concentration in northern states.

Poverty indices consistently show the highest multidimensional poverty rates in the North.

Literacy figures reveal a scandalous educational divide, with some northern states recording single-digit literacy rates, while parts of the South approach near-universal literacy.


These are not abstract statistics. They translate into: children out of school, communities cut off by insecurity, markets unable to function, states trapped in survival mode.

And yet, when the Tinubu administration reaches for its biggest chequebook, it reaches—not northward—but towards Lagos.

Let this be clear: Lagos is not the enemy. Lagos is industrious, vibrant, and economically vital. But no federation survives when one city becomes the gravitational centre of everything—capital, institutions, infrastructure, and influence—while others are treated as afterthoughts.


Abuja was created to prevent exactly this outcome. It was meant to neutralise regional dominance, balance power, and symbolise national ownership. What Tinubu’s Lagos-centric governance does is quietly undo the philosophy of the Nigerian federation, not by law, but by practice.

A federation does not collapse only through coups or constitutions. Sometimes it collapses through budget lines, headquarters relocations, and silent administrative decisions.

To the North, the message is clear: endure insecurity and poverty while watching national wealth pass you by.

To the South East, already starved of federal presence, the message is familiar: you are not a priority.

To the South South, the resource zone of the federation, the message is bitterly ironic: your oil may fund the centre, but the centre lives elsewhere.

And to Lagos, the message is unmistakable: you are the centre of the republic.

President Tinubu owes Nigerians an answer—not rhetoric, not slogans, but an answer grounded in policy logic:

Is Nigeria still a federation, or is it being reorganised around Lagos by stealth?


Because when: federal agencies move,
regulatory power relocates, development banks follow and trillions in infrastructure spending cluster in one axis, then what is happening is not accidental.

And that choice, left unchecked, risks turning Nigeria into a country where citizenship depends on geography, and national unity becomes a slogan rather than a lived reality.

History has shown—again and again—that nations do not fracture only from rebellion. Sometimes, they fracture from neglect dressed up as efficiency.

Nigeria should be careful.



Bello Doka can be reached via bellodoka82@gmail.com

Abuja Network News

https://dailytrust.com/is-tinubu-relocating-nigerias-capital-to-lagos-piece-by-piece/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHn9RZ2WTOpYwOM9Ea8F8rPK1CvTsSpgsH4QIB-v4SF4xqwHwZBnkJPDPQQuy_aem_d_F4WWBJbgajoEbgDHMuGg&noamp=available

How much is the security budget going to the North and South? The development in the north has been substituted for banditry and terrorism. When 90% of the security budget of this nation is being spent in the North, the other parts of the country should be left undeveloped because of that?

Stop the terrorists in your region and the defence budget will be allocated for development. You cannot eat your cake and still have it. The nonsense Buhari tolerated in his government is what is biting you hard over there now. Nigeria does not start and end in the North.



Sigh!

This is a non-issue. You guys should get over the Abuja-Lagos narrative already. What matters is efficiency and getting the job done.

What are those 7 northern states contributing to the purse /, compared to what they are getting?

I see some Northerners trying to wip up sentiments with emotional topics like this, trying to get their people against the Government...I expect more of this from next year.

During Tinubu swear in ceremony i was doing german floor to my building the same day,
One of the Baale's boys came to the site after entertaining him he started gisting me.
In the process he said Thank God Tinubu has been swore in and I asked what would be the benefit to him? He said that one of the benefits is that he is going to bring back federal capital to Lagos. I looked at him like someone who does"t know what he was doing but now i am begining to believe him

Stiv19cuff:
Thu, 25 Dec 2025 6:20:17 WAT
By Mohammed Bello Doka




Nigeria is a federation in name, but under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is beginning to look like a country governed from one city, for one city, and in the image of one city. What is unfolding before our eyes is not announced, not debated, and not legislated—but it is real. By policy choices, budget priorities, and institutional drift, Lagos is being rebuilt as Nigeria’s de facto administrative–economic capital, while vast swathes of the country are left to decay.

FAAN, CBN (key departments), BOI, NPA and NIMASA.

These are not minor agencies. They are the command centres of aviation, finance, industry, ports, and maritime regulation. When such institutions either move their headquarters to Lagos or concentrate their real power there, the question practically asks itself: if power, money, and decision-making all live in Lagos, what exactly is Abuja for—and what is left for the rest of Nigeria?


Let us begin with the facts.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has formally relocated its headquarters from Abuja to Lagos. The justification offered was “operational efficiency” because Lagos handles the bulk of air traffic. Yet Abuja remains the constitutional seat of government. No constitutional amendment was sought. No national debate was held. A major federal institution simply packed up and moved.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, officially headquartered in Abuja, has quietly transferred some of its most powerful departments—Banking Supervision, Payments System Management, Consumer Protection, Financial Policy and Regulation—to Lagos. Anyone who understands how banking regulation works knows the truth: where supervision sits, power sits. Abuja may keep the signage, but Lagos now holds the nerve centre.


The Bank of Industry has received Federal Executive Council approval for a new headquarters in Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, effectively relocating its functional command base from Abuja. A development finance institution, meant to catalyse industrial growth across Nigeria, is now planting its flag in one of the most exclusive real-estate enclaves in Africa.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and NIMASA, though nominally federal, have long operated as Lagos-centric agencies. Under Tinubu, this imbalance has not been corrected—it has been reinforced.

Piece by piece, institution by institution, Lagos is being reassembled as Nigeria’s true capital—without Nigerians ever being asked.

If the institutional drift raises suspicion, the budgetary figures remove all doubt.

Consider the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, a flagship federal project championed by the Tinubu administration. The road, stretching roughly 700 kilometres, has been reported in multiple credible sources as costing between N14 trillion and N15 trillion when completed. Even the first tranche alone approved by the Federal Executive Council—N1.334 trillion for about 130 kilometres—is staggering.


Now place that figure beside the reality of northern Nigeria.

According to compiled 2025 approved state budgets:

Yobe State: N320.8 billion

Gombe State: under N500 billion

Taraba State: under N500 billion

Nasarawa State: under N500 billion

Adamawa State: under N500 billion

Seven of the ten states with the smallest budgets in Nigeria are in the North. The combined budgets of the ten lowest-spending states nationwide amount to about N4.2 trillion.

Let that sink in.

A single federal road corridor, anchored in Lagos and running along the coast, is projected to cost over three times the combined annual budgets of ten Nigerian states, most of them northern. Even the N1.334 trillion first phase alone is larger than the entire annual budget of multiple northern states.

This is not development. This is concentration.

While trillions flow southward into concrete, glass, and coastal highways, the North is bleeding.


Insurgency and banditry continue to cripple the North-East and North-West.

According to displacement tracking data, millions of Nigerians remain internally displaced, with the highest concentration in northern states.

Poverty indices consistently show the highest multidimensional poverty rates in the North.

Literacy figures reveal a scandalous educational divide, with some northern states recording single-digit literacy rates, while parts of the South approach near-universal literacy.


These are not abstract statistics. They translate into: children out of school, communities cut off by insecurity, markets unable to function, states trapped in survival mode.

And yet, when the Tinubu administration reaches for its biggest chequebook, it reaches—not northward—but towards Lagos.

Let this be clear: Lagos is not the enemy. Lagos is industrious, vibrant, and economically vital. But no federation survives when one city becomes the gravitational centre of everything—capital, institutions, infrastructure, and influence—while others are treated as afterthoughts.


Abuja was created to prevent exactly this outcome. It was meant to neutralise regional dominance, balance power, and symbolise national ownership. What Tinubu’s Lagos-centric governance does is quietly undo the philosophy of the Nigerian federation, not by law, but by practice.

A federation does not collapse only through coups or constitutions. Sometimes it collapses through budget lines, headquarters relocations, and silent administrative decisions.

To the North, the message is clear: endure insecurity and poverty while watching national wealth pass you by.

To the South East, already starved of federal presence, the message is familiar: you are not a priority.

To the South South, the resource zone of the federation, the message is bitterly ironic: your oil may fund the centre, but the centre lives elsewhere.

And to Lagos, the message is unmistakable: you are the centre of the republic.

President Tinubu owes Nigerians an answer—not rhetoric, not slogans, but an answer grounded in policy logic:

Is Nigeria still a federation, or is it being reorganised around Lagos by stealth?


Because when: federal agencies move,
regulatory power relocates, development banks follow and trillions in infrastructure spending cluster in one axis, then what is happening is not accidental.

And that choice, left unchecked, risks turning Nigeria into a country where citizenship depends on geography, and national unity becomes a slogan rather than a lived reality.

History has shown—again and again—that nations do not fracture only from rebellion. Sometimes, they fracture from neglect dressed up as efficiency.

Nigeria should be careful.



Bello Doka can be reached via bellodoka82@gmail.com

Abuja Network News

https://dailytrust.com/is-tinubu-relocating-nigerias-capital-to-lagos-piece-by-piece/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHn9RZ2WTOpYwOM9Ea8F8rPK1CvTsSpgsH4QIB-v4SF4xqwHwZBnkJPDPQQuy_aem_d_F4WWBJbgajoEbgDHMuGg&noamp=available

When I say it is the monopoly of the economy that is making my people move in large numbers to lagos.Thr people claim lies that SE is not productive. Let move out all these things to abj which is state capital. And let see how the so called revenue from lagos will happen. And the remaining SW states won't be dead end.The igbos and other tribes is the one servicing lagos monopoly which is sustaining other SW states. This is why SW will do everything to keep one nigeria. That is why they whr happy that SW president and Yoruba judiciary sentenced Kanu to jail. Walahi without one nigeria. The SW will not survive on thr own

This is a brilliant analysis. Thank you for sharing.

What's the 19 northern states even contributing to Nigeria?

The writer should stop being petty.

The abandoned projects in the North by past leaders should be their priority.

Why are they not crying about those abandoned projects?

North should accept it. Afterall they voted tinubu and based on turn by turn. It's yoruba turns when power moves north, they can relocate all of them back to abuja.

Lagos is the only viable option for capital and the earlier we accept that, the better for us all.

The Bank of Industry Headquarters is already in lLagos Island
The address is. 23 Marina Road, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria

So moving Headquarters is not a move from Abuja to Lagos

Banking and Finance is headquartered in Lagos, like the capital markets and stock exchange . If they choose to move from Marina to Eko Atlantic it is a business decision and should not be politicised . However the claim is false it is a lie? Mixing lies with half truths means the author is dishonest
Most military training facilities are in the north OUTSIDE ABUJA , the NDA is in Kaduna they approved a military University for Borno and so on
Even a federal refinery
The reason you cited for the move of capital is a Northern agenda not something all Nigerians agreed on
Nothing wrong with a big capital city if it develops organically not by draining the regions
The National Capital does not have to be a big or the biggest city
Decentralising federal agencies is good based on operations e.g. NNPC to SS, Navy and NPA to coastal regions

A National capital should not be a drain of resources it should contribute something

The north wanted Lagos to die
Look at abandoned buildings like the National Statium , Federal secretariat, the roads around the ports

The bitter truth is Abuja Was created artificially with huge resources that should have been invested in electricity

Where did those resources come from ?

Does Abuja need to be that big?

| Country | Capital (Population) | Largest City (Population) |
| ---------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------- |
| United States | Washington, D.C. (~0.7M) | New York City (~8.8M) |
| Brazil | Brasília (~3.1M) | São Paulo (~12.3M) |
| Nigeria | Abuja (~1.7M) | Lagos (~15M) |
| Pakistan | Islamabad (~1.2M) | Karachi (~16M) |
| Turkey | Ankara (~5.8M) | Istanbul (~15.5M) |
| Australia | Canberra (~0.46M) | Sydney (~5.3M) |
| Canada | Ottawa (~1.05M) | Toronto (~2.9M) |
| Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro (~0.36M) | Abidjan (~4.7M) |
| Tanzania | Dodoma (~0.77M) | Dar es Salaam (~6.7M) |
| Kazakhstan | Astana (~1.3M) | Almaty (~2.1M) |
| Morocco | Rabat (~0.58M) | Casablanca (~3.7M) |
| Malawi | Lilongwe (~1.1M) | Blantyre (~1.4M) |
| China | Beijing (~21M) | Shanghai (~24M) |
| Malaysia | Putrajaya (~0.11M) | Kuala Lumpur (~1.9M) |
| Switzerland | Bern (~0.14M) | Zurich (~0.44M) |
| Indonesia | Jakarta (~10.6M) | Surabaya (~2.9M) |
| Belize | Belmopan (~0.02M) | Belize City (~0.06M) |
| Bolivia | Sucre (~0.3M) | Santa Cruz (~2.1M) |
| New Zealand | Wellington (~0.22M) | Auckland (~1.7M) |
| Papua New Guinea | Port Moresby (~0.36M) | Lae (~0.15M) |

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A coastal road is not only for Lagos
There is a train and rail link from Abuja to Kaduna nothing like that to Enugu

Those 20 million people in Lagos state are they not Nigerians
Yet Lagos state has 20 local government areas compared to Kano with 44

The writer is just being dramatic. The relocation of FAAN to Lagos has been in the works for years.

Practically impossible, Tinubu knows himself that it will be resisted fiercely.

Good2go1:
During Tinubu swear in ceremony i was doing german floor to my building the same day,
One of the Baale's boys came to the site after entertaining him he started gisting me.
In the process he said Thank God Tinubu has been swore in and I asked what would be the benefit to him? He said that one of the benefits is that he is going to bring back federal capital to Lagos. I looked at him like someone who does"t know what he was doing but now i am begining to believe him

He has been doing it systematically and he has started renovating the old FCT house in Lagos

Stiv19cuff:
Practically impossible, Tinubu knows himself that it will be resisted fiercely.

Lagos is a Coastal state, not so ideal for a capital...plus its population.

ebukal67x:
Lagos is the only viable option for capital and the earlier we accept that, the better for us all.

Stiv19cuff:
Lagos is a Coastal state, not so ideal for a capital...plus its population.

You are just stating an opinion that has no factual basis

Totally ignorant


See world capital cities by the coast and the large number in Africa and West Africa
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## **Africa**

* **Algiers** — Algeria
* **Luanda** — Angola
* **Praia** — Cabo Verde
* **Djibouti** — Djibouti
* **Malabo** — Equatorial Guinea
* **Banjul** — The Gambia
* **Accra** — Ghana
* **Monrovia** — Liberia
* **Tripoli** — Libya
* **Maputo** — Mozambique
* **Moroni** — Comoros
* **São Tomé** — São Tomé and Príncipe
* **Victoria** — Seychelles
* **Tunis** — Tunisia
* **Rabat** — Morocco
* **Dakar** — Senegal
* **Bissau** — Guinea-Bissau
* **Conakry** — Guinea
* **Freetown** — Sierra Leone
* **Libreville** — Gabon
* **Lomé** — Togo
* **Port Louis** — Mauritius
* **Mogadishu** — Somalia

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## **Europe**

* **Athens** — Greece
* **Copenhagen** — Denmark
* **Dublin** — Ireland
* **Helsinki** — Finland
* **Lisbon** — Portugal
* **Monaco** — Monaco
* **Oslo** — Norway
* **Reykjavík** — Iceland
* **Stockholm** — Sweden
* **Tallinn** — Estonia
* **Valletta** — Malta

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## **Asia**

* **Abu Dhabi** — United Arab Emirates
* **Manama** — Bahrain
* **Doha** — Qatar
* **Kuwait City** — Kuwait
* **Muscat** — Oman
* **Beirut** — Lebanon
* **Tokyo** — Japan
* **Manila** — Philippines
* **Jakarta** — Indonesia
* **Bandar Seri Begawan** — Brunei
* **Dili** — Timor-Leste

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## **Americas**

* **Buenos Aires** — Argentina
* **Montevideo** — Uruguay
* **Lima** — Peru
* **Havana** — Cuba
* **Kingston** — Jamaica
* **Santo Domingo** — Dominican Republic
* **Port-au-Prince** — Haiti
* **Panama City** — Panama
* **Georgetown** — Guyana
* **Paramaribo** — Suriname

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## **Oceania**

* **Wellington** — New Zealand
* **Suva** — Fiji
* **Port Moresby** — Papua New Guinea
* **Apia** — Samoa
* **Nukuʻalofa** — Tonga
* **Port Vila** — Vanuatu
* **Honiara** — Solomon Islands
* **Majuro** — Marshall Islands
* **Tarawa** — Kiribati
* **Funafuti** — Tuvalu

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