Lagos Flashcards
Natural increase
Pop rise from rising birth rates
How old are Lagos residents
52% of residents 15-34
Why is religion relevant in Lagos
Catholic, anti contraception
Push factors to Lagos
Few docs
Farming and low pay
Isolated areas from poor roads
Basic school
Bokoharam
Urban pull factors
Medical facilities
Well paid jobs
Public transport
Entertainment
Freinds and family moved
Mega city
10 mil people
2030= 2/3 of worlds people will live there
Lagos location
West of Africa, SW Nigeria neighbouring Cameroon. Coast of south Atlantic.
History
1472 slave trade
1861 GB owned it
1914 Lagos is capital
1991 Abuja becomes capital
Commerce
Paint
Soap
Fishing
7000 people per km^2
85 pph
Size
0.4% of Nigeria
21 million people
Success
60% of commercial ventures in Africa
Nolly wood
FDI from Netflix and Sony
30% of Nigerias GDP
Average income in Lagos
$2k-$4k GDP per capita
Everywhere else in Nigeria is $500-$1.5k
Boko haram
500+ killed
Birth rate
Highest in the world
Female literacy
20% higher in Lagos
Social opportunities
Electricity- more lecy than rural land. 2 new power stations planned. Power cuts occur.
Water supply- street vendors, rich have piped water
Education- 37% more kids finish primary school then the rest of of Nigeria
Health Care- poor places are vunerable
Lagos has healthcare and higher life expectancy
Transport- railway announced but not done. Taxis and busses are available
Economic activity
Formal economy- tertiary and quaternary jobs in Netflix, Sony, caburies, Shell and Eli Atlantic
Informal economy- no minimum wage, no tax
Eko Atlantic
$6 billion to build
Provides housing
Infrastructure
Reliable electricity
250,000 jobs
Takes awhile started in 2008
Poor don’t benifit
Relies on FDI.
Corruption
Leakage ( money to HICs )
Shell take home 4x what Nigeria take
Nigeria lost $400mil from corruption
Nic name for Lagos
The beating heart of financial Africa
Advantages of Eko Atlantic
Foreign tech
Tax increases QofL
TNCs attract over TNCs
Disadvantages of Eko Atlantic
Big companies avoid tax
Corruption
TNCs try under pay workers
Squatter settlements
65% of population
Unclean water
Dangourous
4 million people live in absolute poverty ( less than $2 a day )
They can be knocked down at any time so people don’t care about them
Makoko
100,000 people
Squattor settlements
They dump everything into the water
Fishing for income
1 school and it’s private
A few hospitals that aren’t free
Over pop
5000 Nira for a kid ( £8 ) what people make in a month
How many Lagos people have piped water
12%
Flooding
Large areas flood often with no where being more than 5 meters above sea level
How much waste does Lagos make
13 million kg per day
How many have access to potable water
10%
Unemployment rate
35%
Inequality
Makoko $10/month
Not 500m away
Victoria Island with an average house price of $600,000
2004-2010 in Nigeria
Millionaires increased by 44%
Number of people in poverty up 43 million
Nigerian economy boom
1994 $30 billion
2021 $440 billion
How many Nigerians live in absolute poverty
49%
How many crimes in Lagos
50k in 2017
Area boys
Like police
Like mafia
They run areas
Help people out of poverty by paying them
Makoko floating school
Develop QofL in poor areas with education
Trading space/ communal space for money+freinds
Plants for air quality
Rain water for potable water
Free education
Ran on solar power
It sank in 2017
Cholera
900 people died of cholera in 2017
