Tag: Lagos International Marathon

Athletics: Nigeria, the new marathon hub?

by Stephanie Findlay NIGERIA (AFP) — The infamously congested, concrete jungle of Lagos is far from a runners’ paradise, but with the launch of a new annual marathon on Saturday organizers hope to show that the city’s bad reputation is undeserved. Over 20,000 participants turned out before dawn on a typically muggy morning in Lagos to compete in the biggest marathon the city has seen in thirty years. The streets of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest metropolis, […]