Hey!
You get some newbie who has never even got his knees brown asking "So how about Lagos?" when some guy wearing rose-tinted Ray-Bans tries to blow smoke: "Oh yes, come and enjoy Lagos. Very, very nice and please ignore all that racist propaganda. We have cleaned up all our problems and hardly anyone gets killed by robbers these days. Well, not since last week, anyway."
Well, we can all have our opinions, when I have often found mine can be incorrect. BUT, as I pointed out, a quick read of information readily available about Nigeria should give one plenty to think about.
The thing that worries me is that there's some sort of mind-set that is counter-logical. You, Mr New Guy, don't want to know what the U.S. Government, for instance, tells its citizens about this or that country, when it is not as if they are only slagging off Nigeria. No, you want the real inside poop from real people! Well, good luck with that!
Get told what you want to hear, that Lagos is the best-kept secret in Africa: You go there and get paid to enjoy cool drinks, beautiful girls and a really, really great time. Or learn that it's a seething pit of crime and disease that you will be lucky to escape from with only your life. Whatever.
Unless you are some kind of adventure tourist you are coming to Lagos in particular or Nigeria in general to work. That's what it said on my visa and that's what I did there. No travel to Nigeria, no drinking vouchers, period! For me, for a while, it was "the only game in town" and I got treated pretty well, all things considered. That said, I did see other guys decide that staying on dry land was boring, jump in for a nice swim and get eaten alive. Again, read the serious advice available from professional sources rather than listening to this anecdotal stuff.
I could tell you how I flew a small airplane through an area of thunderstorms, if you want to stay awake to hear that. Does that mean that is a good idea, or was I just lucky? The odds do not favour a stay in Lagos! I don't make the odds, I just know where to find them written down.