Lagos – Nigeria’s commercial capital, has once again made it into the record books for all the wrong reasons. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has ranked Lagos as the world’s most dangerous city to live in, TheCable reports.

In its Safe Cities Index, the EIU ranked 60 cities across the world off the following parameters: digital security, health, infrastructure and personal security; and Lagos scored the least on most of these parameters.

Lagos occupied the 56th spot on the digital security ranking and placed 58th on the infrastructure security ranking.

Lagosians live on the edge, basically [Lagos Television]

Nigeria’s most populous city also ranked the least on the health and personal security index.

Urban management

“Urban management will play a fundamental role in defining the quality of life of most human beings in the coming years. A key element of this will be the ability of cities to provide security for their residents, businesses and visitors.

“A look at the top five cities in each pillar—digital, health, infrastructure and personal security—yields a similar message. In each area, leading cities got the basics right, be it easy access to high-quality healthcare, dedicated cyber-security teams, community-based police patrolling or disaster continuity planning”, the report stated.

Area boys are a daily menace in Lagos (Punch)

Japan’s capital city of Tokyo was ranked the world’s safest city.

Singapore, Osaka, Amsterdam and Sydney occupy the second to fifth spots on the ranking respectively.

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The cities were ranked on the following explained parameters:

Digital security: Privacy policy, citizen awareness of digital threats, public-private partnerships, level of technology employed, dedicated cyber-security teams, percentage of computers infected, percentage with internet access.

Infrastructure security: Enforcement of transport safety, pedestrian friendliness, disaster management/business continuity plan, road network, power network, rail network, the percentage living in slums, air transport facilities.

Source – http://saharareporters.com/

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