The governor’s son sits hunched at the bar, contemplating his nearly empty bottle of Hennessy. On the dance floor, the airline director’s daughter sways back and forth to a hip-hop beat. Nearby, the star soccer player, just in from London, tries to squeeze past his growing circle of fans and hangers-on. In the center of the club, the oil magnate’s son gets on top of a table and takes a swig from a bottle of Dom Pérignon.
The New York discovers there’s money (lots of it) in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, (here) and that it is a very expensive city. Especially since “… the average Nigerian survives on less than $2 a day.” Last weekend the Washington Post came to the same conclusion (not about the expensive part though).
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