But whereas a few years ago it could have been true that a Lagos road would have been one of the worst places in the world to find yourself, now there is little chance that you will be stationary, unless there is a broken down lorry, or the presidential convoy makes a visit from the capital city, Abuja.
He was never a creature of the capital city's social scene, living in a spartan apartment in the city not far from the Supreme Court offices on Capitol Hill.
Like the city itself, the show is getting a bit stagnant in the capital city even in spite of its cast of spies and vagabonds, from Varys to Littlefinger and a conniving Lannister every time you turn a corner.
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The older parts include Hassan Mosque (started in 1184) and the Almohad ramparts and gates, the only surviving parts of the project for a great capital city of the Almohad caliphate as well as remains from the Moorish, or Andalusian, principality of the 17th century.
At a kindergarten just outside the capital city Tallinn, a class of five year olds crowd around a PC, searching the internet for cartoon websites.
The experience is akin to visiting a charming country house in the middle of a bustling capital city, a walk into a place apart.
But it still retains a unique atmosphere in a city where the capital's expanding population is reflected in its growing sprawl.
From Europe there are only a few flights a week to the capital city of Kigali.
Sun and her family are still living off the kindness of relatives in Wenyang, a town next to the capital city of Chengdu.
The Kabul blast, which killed at least 59 people, ripped through a crowded ceremony outside the Abul Fazal shrine on a riverbank in the capital's old city.
Some 1500 workers held a strike at the Media City, a center for television and movie production in a satellite city in the desert outside the capital.
The governor's decision represents a turning point for a city that was once the industrial capital of America and an engine of its growth.
But now with one of the world's largest new coal finds and a growing tourist industry, the capital city of Maputo is booming.
On the one hand, the Zona Rosa shooting is an example of a recent incursion of a type of lawlessness that has not been seen in the capital city for a few years.
The following guest post is by David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private-equity firm, and of The Soho Loft Capital Creation Events, a global events and media company.
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina says prison gangs are behind the murder on Wednesday of a prison governor in the capital, Guatemala City.
On Aug. 14, 2012, the federal prosecutors office in the state of Para, where Belo Monte is being built, successfully convinced a federal district court in the capital city of Brasilia to suspend construction of the dam.
The following guest post is by David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private-equity firm, and of The Soho Loft Capital Creation Events series, a global events and media company.
Guatemalan police are investigating the murder of two girls aged six and 12 whose bodies were found dumped on a street in the capital, Guatemala City.
In 2008, Dubai-based DP World won a 25-year contract to expand and operate the port in the capital city, Dakar, which had been a major stopover for the French shipping business since the 1800s.
However, a police official and two security officials who all spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said that police found two anti-aircraft guns on a rooftop near Chaklala Air Base in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to the capital.
The Catalan capital is still a city best enjoyed from outside the city center, thanks to some of its whimsical architecture, courtesy of Antoni Gaudi .
The citizens of El Alto, a poor, sprawling city perched above La Paz, the capital, are engaged in a like-minded campaign to throw out a French water company, which they blame for high prices and for failing to supply water to hundreds of thousands of people.
Observers feared a bomb attack in the Malian capital, Bamako, or in a Francophone West African city where French nationals usually represent the biggest expatriate community.
Remember that this was in Zambia, one of the poorest countries in the world, and it was in a tiny place six hundred kilometers from the capital city.
It's a rather nondescript city, the capital of Anhui province in the rice belt of central China.
The resignation was given to West African mediators in the capital city of Bamako, said a spokesman for Dioncounda Traore, the speaker of the parliament.
The statue, a gift to the city from the non-profit group Capital Area Statues, Inc.
Despite the positive outlook, the Egyptian capital of Cairo isn't a placid city two years after the revolution (arguably it never was).
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