Tools and templates
Calculators that use the same figures as the guides, and letter templates you can copy. Nothing you type is sent anywhere — every calculation happens on your own device.
Calculators
Take-home pay, tax and the true cost of a loan, worked out with the same figures the guides use. Everything runs in your browser.
- Salary calculator Work out your take-home pay in Lagos under the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 bands, after pension, the NHF and rent relief, with the tax shown band by band.
- Rent advance calculator Work out what a Lagos landlord wants before you get the keys - the advance, the agency, legal and caution fees - and how much of it the Tenancy Law forbids.
- Pension calculator See what you and your employer pay into your Retirement Savings Account each month, and what it could come to by the time you retire, in today's money.
- VAT calculator Add Nigerian VAT to a price or find the VAT inside one, at the rate in the Nigeria Tax Act 2025, with what carries no VAT and who need not charge it.
- Withholding tax calculator See what reaches your account after a client in Nigeria withholds tax from your invoice, how VAT and WHT interact, and why the receipt matters.
- Loan repayment calculator Monthly repayments and total interest on a loan, what a flat rate costs as a reducing balance, and what a monthly rate comes to over a year.
- Import duty calculator Work out the duty, port surcharge, levies and VAT on goods imported into Nigeria through Lagos, from the value of the shipment and its tariff band.
- Vehicle import duty calculator What a car costs to land in Lagos: import duty, the National Automotive Council levy, the other charges and VAT, and the age past which it cannot come in.
Maps, data and live pages
Things to explore rather than calculate.
- Map of Lagos Every local government area and its landmarks.
- Nonstop flights from Lagos All 55 destinations from Murtala Muhammed on one map, with the airlines that fly each route.
- Lagos and Nigeria in numbers Population, the economy, schooling and daily life over the decades, with what is Lagos and what is Nigeria kept apart.
- Lagos radio, live Listen to 7 Lagos stations in your browser, with their frequencies.
- Public holidays and dates Nigeria's public holidays, soonest first.
- What's in season in Lagos Fruit, vegetables, staples and fish, month by month, and where each is grown.