According to former presidential candidate Oby Ezekwesili, Sambisa Forest is 18 times the size of Lagos state. There are debates over the specific size of the deadly forest which is now hideout of Boko Haram, but Dr. Ezekwesili revealed that the forest is 60,000 square kilometres, “Eighteen times the size of Lagos State! All of Lagos is 3,345 square km,” she tweeted in 2017 On January 17, 2017, she went on a tour of Sambisa with the Nigerian Airforce (NAF).