Lagos

Question 1

what is the population of Lagos?

Answer 1

16,536,000 a 3.7% increase from 2023 and is the fastest growing megacity

Question 2

what is migration?

Answer 2

the movement of people from one place to another

Question 3

what are push factors for migration ?

Answer 3

reasons to leave an area

Question 4

what are pull factors in migration?

Answer 4

reasons to move TO an area

Question 5

what are examples of push factors?

Answer 5

bad job
bad neighbourhood
bad education
bad healthcare
rural areas
bad transportation
conflict
lack of water,food,energy

Question 6

what are examples of pull factors?

Answer 6

good jobs
good neighbourhoods
good education
family,friends near
good healthcare
good transport
independence
stability and policing

Question 7

what is a megacity?

Answer 7

a metropolitan area with a population of 10 million people and over

Question 8

where is Lagos?

Answer 8

Southwest of Nigeria
Alongside the Atlantic Ocean
Close to its border with Bernin

Question 9

Economic opportunities in the city…

Answer 9

Better and unique jobs to Lagos, such as…
lawyers
finance
buisness
computing
these are tertiary jobs

Question 10

Healthcare opportunities…

Answer 10

Vulnerable people will die from curable diseases due to lack of poor healthcare, because of this Lagos is increasing its healthcare rates

Question 11

Education opportunities…

Answer 11

over 10 universities
11,226 primary schools
2,565;secondary schools
98% of Lagos’ children in education
education is seen as a passport out of poverty

Question 12

challenges in the city…

Answer 12

people living in poverty
traffic congestion
high cost of living
inadequate infrastructure
bad roads

Question 13

Access to resources: water supply

Answer 13

Only the wealthiest 10% of people in Lagos have a reliable, piped water supply
Everyone else have to rely on stand pipes on the street or buying water from vendors

Question 14

Access to resources: Energy

Answer 14

due to the fact that there are so many generators shows that Lagos’ electricity supply is very poor in some areas
High income households are able to pay for reliable energy resources

Question 15

What is a formal economy?

Answer 15

Employees pay tax to the local or national government and are entitled to some workers rights

Question 16

What is am informal economy?

Answer 16

no paid tax
workers do jobs such as street vending
40% of the workforce are in this sector

Question 17

formal economy pros

Answer 17

reliable income
money can be invested
entitled to rights

Question 18

formal economy cons

Answer 18

pay taxes
not easy to access
need high qualifications

Question 19

informal economy pros

Answer 19

low skill
good for new migrants
quick money

Question 20

informal economy cons

Answer 20

no guarantee income
bad/unsafe
could be illegal
low level pay
lots of competition
unstable

Question 21

Challenges in Lagos

Answer 21

Slums
people being exposed to diseases and unhygienic areas
overpopulated
lack of homew

Question 22

Challenges: clean water

Answer 22

government not being able to pay and fun poorer areas

Question 23

Challenges: Sanitation, sewage systems

Answer 23

become noticeable due to increase in population and waste being produced

Question 24

Challenges: Energy

Answer 24

government can’t fund energy due to a lot of the population not paying tax

Question 25

Challenges: Unemployment

Answer 25

People not being getting education to be able to enter formal economy jobs

Question 26

Challenges: Crime

Answer 26

if people become unemployed they will turn to crime and due to the increasing population it becomes harder to police

Question 27

Challenges: Waste disposal

Answer 27

no room for it to go so it becomes normal to live with human waste and rubbish waste leading ti health problems

Question 28

Challenges: Air and water pollution

Answer 28

becomes a very unhealthy living space

Question 29

Challenges: Traffic congestion

Answer 29

as some people’s pay increases the amount of vehicles also increase

Question 30

Challenges: Providing healthcare and education

Answer 30

people had been brought up on bad education so are unable to become doctors or teachers and therefore life expectancy is short

Question 31

Managing issues: Air pollution

Answer 31

monitoring air pollution
encouraging walking, cycling
uber boat to stop people driving

Question 32

Managing issues: Waste

Answer 32

encourage reduce, reuse, recycle
allow people to sort and sell wastw

Question 33

Managing issues: Water pollution

Answer 33

10 mega sewage waste water plants

Question 34

Managing issues: Traffic congestion

Answer 34

encourage walking, cycling
built a second road and built a bridge to connect roads
terminal built to encourage people to use the lagoon river
railways
uber boat

Question 35

Managing issues: Education in low income areas

Answer 35

In the Makoko slum a school on the river was built to encourage and eccess children to an education, it unfortunately was not successful but a great idea