All politics is local...
A well-known truism. Same way with "danger", I think. You can be safe as houses in a "dangerous" place but you easily can get your head beaten in someplace regarded as "safe".
I spent a year in Miami just before going to Lagos for the first time. At that time (1980-1981) Miami had high crime. I had been harassed a couple of times out driving around late at night so that I was thinking about buying a gun, especially because it was held to be so that 3 out of 4 people on the road there were armed themselves.
One of the line boys quickly came up with a very nice nickel-plated S&W .357 magnum with a 4-inch, solid rib barrel, even offering to let me loose off a test round into the FBO flower bed there in the parking lot!
I went away and thought that one over and decided, "No, better to just get away from Miami." More and more of my trips were for the Colombian Mafia and the Feds seemed to be developing an unhealthy interest in the way my non-career was developing so that then-Lagos was actually a calmer, less-threatening environment.
Even so, yes, several friends did question my sanity in agreeing to go there. Of course most folks in the States just thought of some image of naked savages dancing around a big, black pot holding me, sort of what The Mighty Sparrow parodies in "Congo Man".
By now I guess Miami would be better except for that rumour some wag started that I had been an informant...
Not to be racist or even merely unfair but Lagos has, umm, deteriorated quite a bit since 1981. On the other hand, yes, you can get breaks there flying some nice equipment that you wouldn't get elsewhere. Just remember that if a deal is "too good to believe" then perhaps you shouldn't believe it! Too, bear in mind that I was ready to go back myself despite knowing pretty well some of the negative aspects of the place.