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Nigeria's largest city Lagos a car "Horn-Free Day" last week in an attempt to awareness of noise pollution. People are constantly with an endless cacophony of screeches, sirens and high-pitched honking from impatient motorists. The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola reporters that the extent of the noise from car horns now serious enough to a danger to people's hearing. about Horn-Free Day, he told reporters: "It for our own good. It is for our own health. It is for our own life." The World Health Organization high-decibel noise pollution was a critical health hazard that the risk of cardiovascular diseases and high blood pressure.

Governor Fashola his city's roads would be a little quieter. He the constant honking in Lagos to the relative quiet of European roads. He said he recently ten days in Europe and, "did not the sound of a horn while driving". He : "Can you that we can drive in Lagos without horns?" However, a Lagos blogger the use of the horn as part of the city's culture. He said: "Honking is a beautiful trend in this part of the world, and it is a trend that every class of people in the country ." Apart from making other drivers aware of danger, he said people to friends and celebrate weddings and other happy occasions.