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urban futures Lagos

Weres Lagos located

  • Lagos is located in the west of Africa

  • southwest of the country of Nigeria Lagos is located

  • on the Atlantic coast of the Gulf of Guinea

life in Lagos Nigeria

  • 2/3 of the population of Lagos are slum dwellers (individuals that live under one roof in an urban area)

  • slum dwellers’ houses are made out of scrap material and rubbish from the dumps (very unsanitary)

  • ajengule is one of the largest slums in Lagos

  • while the rich live in gated communities like Banana Island, the average 3-bedroom condo costs about 2 million Nigerian Naira.

  • there are about 9,500 millionaires in Lagos alone

  • the middle-class people in Lagos work in top jobs like the First Bank of Nigeria Limited with over 750 branches in the country with over 10 million accounts. other business includes Unilever and Nestle as their headquarters are located in Nigeria meaning it helps boost Nigeria’s economy but also increases urbanisation due to internal migration

  • Lagos handles 80% of the country’s imports and is one of the top 10 busiest ports in Africa

  • 60% live of less than 1 .25 a day

  • street vendors earn 25 p per day

  • 50% are Muslim and 40 % are Christian

    challenges for Lagos

  • over 22,000 people live in each square km in Lagos compared to 4000per square km in Leicester

  • population 600,000 per year

  • due to their increasing population, it has led to a housing shortage which leads to increase amount of slumming in Lagos. 75 % of people in Lagos live in the slums ajengule and Makoko

  • its normal for a family of 5 to live in a room that is just 4 metres square

  • slum dwellers can get evicted since they don’t own the land their slumming on

  • only 2/3 of the people living in slums have access to clean drinking water so diseases like typhoid and cholera can spread faster for people who don’t have access to this clean water

  • life expectancy in the slum sis51

  • many children and adults work as rag pickers in the slum s earning just $1

  • this were they find recyclable material to sell

  • several houses in the slums may haver to share one tap to provide water

  • they mainly get there water from the lagoon same area were sewage and waste is disposed of

  • 66% waste is illegally dumped

  • estimated 10,000 tonnes of solid waste is disposed of daily but the governments collets 40 % of this

  • poor health care 2 doctors /nurses per 1000 people

  • stagnant water means more malaria 86% have disease going around in their slums

  • 3,000 tonnes of this are often recycled