{"id":206208,"date":"2025-09-03T22:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bwala-clarifies-lagos-is-no-mans-land-comment-calls-for-massive-infrastructure-investment\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:52:24","slug":"nigeria-bwala-clarifies-lagos-is-no-mans-land-comment-calls-for-massive-infrastructure-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bwala-clarifies-lagos-is-no-mans-land-comment-calls-for-massive-infrastructure-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Bwala Clarifies &#8216;Lagos Is No Man&#8217;s Land&#8217; Comment, Calls for Massive Infrastructure Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Mr Bwala explained that his statement was taken out of context, as it was not about erasing the cultural identity of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Daniel Bwala, the Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Tinubu, has clarified his recent remarks on Arise TV describing Lagos as a &#8220;no man&#8217;s land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bwaladaniel\/status\/1963173080118816963?s=46&amp;t=aqhNHo6g6TuF82mvXeiSTw\" rel=\"nofollow\">X post<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday, Mr Bwala explained that his statement was taken out of context, as it was not about erasing the cultural identity of Lagos but about emphasising the city&#8217;s unique cosmopolitan&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030396.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Bwala explained that his statement was taken out of context, as it was not about erasing the cultural identity of Lagos. Daniel Bwala, the Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Tinubu, has clarified his recent remarks on Arise TV describing Lagos as a &#8220;no man&#8217;s land.&#8221; In an X post on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,48322,6137,12020,14585,9864,6018,2477,6122,10308,6958,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-206208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bwala","tag-calls","tag-clarifies","tag-comment","tag-infrastructure","tag-investment","tag-lagos","tag-land","tag-mans","tag-massive","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}