The travel time is roughly the same, the difference in the environments is equally as stark.
You stated that the City of Lagos is in Lagos State.
The OP obviously innocently conflated the two.
Don’t you think a more apt comparison, to make your point, would have been New York City and it’s relation to the State of New York and actually picking a place in the State of New York, like Poughkeepsie, that is equidistant to New York City as New Haven, instead of choosing a city in an entirely different state?
What you should have said was “that is like being in Poughkeepsie, NY and thinking you’re in New York City.
Your comparison fails otherwise because it’s not comparable.