Lagos

Question 1

Population?

Answer 1

• Largest city in Africa
• Population increases by 600,000/yr
• Population over 21 mil
• Half of population UNDER 25

Question 2

Importance?

Answer 2

• 80% of Nigeria’s industry
• 25% of Nigeria’s GDP
• Media, arts, transport, services
• 80% of flights into West Africa into Lagos Airport
• Tertiary jobs

Question 3

Informal sector?

Answer 3

• 90% of new jobs created informally (e.g. street vending)
• Can give poor/uneducated people money to improve QoL
• Poor working standard (no minimum wages, no maximum hours, no health benefits)

Question 4

Health care?

Answer 4

• Underfunded and understaffed
• 0.4 doctors / 1000 people (UK 2.6)
• Better in Lagos than rural areas
• Not always free, long wait times, vaccinations not free

Question 5

Education?

Answer 5

• All children offered education for 9 years
• Over 10 universities
• 95.5% literacy rate compared to 65% for Nigeria as a whole
• Not enough university places, most secondary schools are private

Question 6

Housing?

Answer 6

• Many temporary settlements (disliked by government e.g. Makoko, 30,000 poor people evicted in 2017)
• Over 50% of households lack kitchen, toilet, bath
• Most people dig wells/boreholes - contaminated
• 80% of households use polluting diesel generators

Question 7

Cars?

Answer 7

• Richer = more cars on road
• 40% of new cars in Nigeria in Lagos = congestion
• Average commuter 3 hours in traffic / day
• Most cars are old and create air pollution 5x recommended limit
• Strain on healthcare