the, the hello and welcome to this special edition of the news africa. today we're in lagos, nigeria, the biggest city in africa. it's a metropolis like no other one which is to become the biggest city in the world. today we're asking how can it become more livable? we'll have an inside look at life enabled. our 0 cheap starts when you was born. yeah. and still lives. yeah. what sort of lives can her children expect in the coming decades at the last come to a population of late last was about 5 minutes. today's estimates show that number has part google,

but nobody really knows pictures about that. so how do the millions of people living in the city get around? well, road traffic is a major problem. so put lagos is, was the parties the part of the solution, while they last has lots of water. it has limited last, but there is a many cities being built in may was online that used to be the atlantic ocean. is that of the solution? the head of, i'm christine one glass. right now when you talk about mega cities, most of them are in asia thing. so co dandy ge, acosta and shanghai. they all the top 4, but that's about to change. take these examples to come pay new, socio and labels. currently. africa is biggest city. these odd there,

current population. that's 19, that's 16000000 lake. also new are about the same tofu candy, much bigger, full cost. say that by 2100 new will be about the same size as it is now. toko will shrink mast would be an lagos. look at that more than 18000000 negotiate. that's the projected population, not just africa's biggest city, but the biggest receipts in the worlds. and here's a, another prediction by the end of the century. 13 off the 20 biggest urban areas will be in africa, up from just to today. africa will be the only constant is experiencing population growth, then a 3rd of the world's population will be effort. so what sort of a city is labeled? well, essentially it's all built. close was located in south west and nigeria. it's sandwich between the gulf of guinea and lake austin, the good. the city is formed of

a network of islands separated by creeks and lakes with roots on lagos island, did expand it from the on to the mainland, west of the the metropolitan area extends over 40 kilometers inland from the i. i just arrived here, but my colleague marshall bon, you was born yet. wants to send you about the joys and the challenges of living in naples. lagos is my home. i live here on victoria. i live and it's one of the nice sell parts of the city. i've been 02 dw lagos, this tracy says one, i'm about to take my time to leave to have my sick or child. like all parents do, i'm thinking about the future. on one team, the best for them. at the moment, more than 16000000 people leave in the mega semester for the certain area. by the time i a one child is 25, that number would have double to 33000000 by 2100. lagos is expected to be

the world's most popular city, with 88000000 people. i would like my children to have 6 basic things in the neighborhood. so much to leave some kind of work a way to get daily supplies, care when they needed lifelong learning and hopefully lifelong enjoyments too. right now these things cannot be taken for granted. and us legal challenges to find them to go to finding good accommodation is quite hard. many people moving here from other parts of nigeria in search of a better life. also hostile us will say here, have to stay in chances like this one waiter for a while has these looking so we don't have any way to go. we need to do money goes

no money to go to to has it all out. just keep coming and disturbing us during the day and at night they demolish. our shante has is they come at midnight to drive a size. or even in the early morning hours, we were left in the driving rain the last time they came to demolish our homes. before them done with petrol on yours, if i look back to go and so we'll see how people who has the house leaving clean what that is the luck street. most families here on victoria, i learned by what that from vendors because of what that all the taps looks like. this the as much as people move here field, we hope that not enough jobs to go around. so many find creative ways of making money. like these guys sending on the streets. it's a said that there's almost nothing you cannot buy well stuck in and he goes traffic

. and that feels freely true. someone was trying to sell me piece of land while i was in my car. the last is also known as the center of commerce. you can get almost anything you want to in on open markets. but they're also full of counts a fee for the as late goes close on sri backs from the city will need to put the wash structure in place to regulate. it gets fixed in thinking about the future of my children. i also have to close to that health care . most people, the nigeria, i don't have access to health insurance. that only very few probably costs because they usually overcrowded and you still have to pay out of pocket for everything. magazine, treatment test and so on. so people prefer to use private clinics, which might be more expensive. what she's meant to be faxed it goes

universal. basic education is compulsory for the 1st 9 years or foremost school. and it's free in goldman schools, schools. but there are only a few of these. so most people of 12 private schools that many of them are around for this have the really expensive every family needs a place to relax during the weekend or after a long day. mostly may go. so that's also a luxury. i have to drive 20 minutes away from my house to get here. oh, these are many see i come addition health care work, education and even green spaces like this. i central for people to lead healthy adults we've on happy life. this is already struggling to provide for the parents population. what kind of a place will make us recall by this time my unborn child is 25 on the population

doubles us is expected. the challenge is about signing con lagos, rice, to the challenge, and provide these essential for activities for the be, for all millions of citizens. so those are some of the challenges identified by calling flourish to self deeply into the mega problems facing urban 10 is i pulled up with the system we why i couldn't validate at the university of naples proficient would be id. thank you so much for talking to d. w. we're sitting in the city laid costs that is full cost it to be the world's biggest city. by 2100 estimates habits that some 80000000 people will be living in lagos at that time. that's the city, have the capacity to accommodate such numbers. can 80000000 people live in vegas in the coming years? so it is legally they, the political boundary will mag united,

don't have enough land because most of these actually have one as a platform, the 5 being the smallest. because a line here and the state in the, in the country is one of those states that sounds orlando, area it one day, the little light need eyes. okay. bye bye. mostly about what is a long creeks every with what aspects of making lagos more livable needs the most urgent attention housing on trust or. ready public transportation analysis, people tellers on daily basis in terms of having access to quality. obviously if you look at the population, we will live in islam. and these folks on that housing is, is this huge. so. busy we need to talk ways of accommodation and probably transportation to this, and people able to move freely. it would lead me to, i mean, really, to ankle processing the daily routine on the label prints. what

is the solution for housing? how i should say plan is be thinking about making show or demographics, can access housing. the majority usually is these agencies involved obviously you named it goes to kill or developed by the entity to us know government almost 80 percent of the population of the residents of new goes. the of the rates, not home on us in terms of interpretation by government to actually make the property to make people offices. so houses, that means they really mean to put some policies in place. the court is that the and flesh alarm especially on stipends. what they call it goes forms with

legos owns what is this that the government is trying to in introducing mortgage suspect because any nat geo do, i have more. ready now why do i have more business that would go to the bank to borrow money to give as result in 5 percent or thereabouts. so that means most will kind of deal with on their own. so do you have to rely on ranging on anything in agents, cities, for example, we see the pets in a building up and also in europe because of the limited space. is that something that lagos will perhaps resemble this with this quote awesome uh for us about the possibility of living fights. cool. but yeah, as long challenges on individuals, for as long as you want to have good infrastructure. elizabeth, the for instance, because anything above 4 or 5 flaws you was the beauty of goes to plays a most of individual to take people. so you don't have electricity. so well,

how do you want to, upon, what time will you need or that is the to do that. so that is they made vision for now. do you get the impression that feel for tease of thinking in, in the right way, in terms of making lagos more livable for, for the millions who already lives? yeah. and the 1000000 small who are projected to live here in the coming years. yeah. and transfer the do a lot of man has good intentions, but the problem is not as long as, as really when they've turned out by the implementation of the plans. the ministry development on agents is ongoing. i know provided for the need to do this thing that they do, we fix the key implemented as long as you just to be added, pointed to transport and housing as the 2 biggest challenges facing laser. now the, the use only such a cool one knows his way around town, even when the exec root can be a challenge to navigates as someone who is always altima balance and these fits

your legacy. that's in my destination on time. i think the quickest way possible is almost a daily talk. it's to hold on one get from point a to point b. after you guys most go philosophy, the roadside spot is the most. come on in the city of lagos, in cost point $40.00 parts buses just like this. well, he has the bad news. they got this right. so what i'll do was take this into a world when it comes to traffic drive, that's fucking, it's trying to avoid it. you don't have any optional graduates, so it'd be most authors. and it's obvious abc, the, this new we have to go through and your thought is, is we to the,

with this comments traffic. we could be here for more than 3. i was even more when it's rainy season. so times of trying to that means of commuting in lagos. this is illegal. it's blue line. last the step 10 by 21. a pretty good commute. thousands of preston jazz daily news. welcome. as a quick i, we to move around the lagos, printed stress sports when i spoke in trust, but at least one that wants to be before it gets a agreed. but it's not least we did 10 or 15 minutes to be very agreeing. i mean, he says me time for the kind of job that i do time is of a valuable asset to me. so i'm able to go and return back to my home in regular time. and i think it also gives me value for money as well. so that's one of the quick i, i less successful ways to move around the lagos. what days? i know the

the, in the last couple of days. what that sounds like, there's an, i've seen that increase the number of buffing just, it's getting more popular. i mean, what's like the book on starting to prod dispatchers in lagos in less than an hour . lagos is cesar, surrounded by water, as you know, who believe that what that tells us asian is definitely the next frontier illegal. it's has the metal time savings. um, it has the capacity to has worked through the last to and so that of course it is less couple emissions the environment. so it's environmental friendly. it's conducive. it saves you time. i mean the benefits are endless. safely back on dry land. i have another way to get around the city. cycling is definitely healthy and clean up the present some challenges to i would i do my way to get some food. see

i've always had to call them what they improving. that's the wheels can be good, but what 10 break the stranglehold of the internal combustion into? well, i suppose to live, you know, and since the full on the transport commissioner, well, the lagos, state government road has been the dominant mode of transportation falls for many years. all right, and split into considerations as niggas has a very fine night's line to match, which means it's already determined. it's not going to go any more than that. and i'll position, keep screwing out an explanation. rates will get to a point where you can really have so many calls on the route. and then when you add to that, that link us is less with an abundance of what to but that way yet to make an appreciable impact in terms of its usage. then clearly that means that so he owns

route. we have to look to the other 2 possible modes of transportation for legal stage, which will be the real, which i went to some extent on the what's out which i'm not doing to any level that . so let's pick up with water transportation. it's been described as the next frontier for mobility in lagos. what kind of potential deserts has lake us as us as a states has a very huge what's up buddy? like i said earlier, which we haven't used at all. if you look behind me now, especially we're getting to what's pick time. now you see that the calls almost at a standstill, very slow moving traffic for just be young that to see the what the ways of virtually. and so that means that the intelligent way for what for us as a people is to transfer a lot of that appraisal that will put you on the roads onto the watch a ways so that we can convey people in large numbers from different

parts of vegas to the next 2 to watch. so it's one of the points to be made is that we're not just talking about passenger traffic that also accomplish. absolutely, you'll find out that the the reason why uh, quotes are not as efficient as it should be. we have one of the least efficient ports, even in africa, the statistics of that is because most of the cargo virtually up to 90 percent of that move to the root mode. not even real. it's and of course winful that's frazier. even from the cargo comes on the road, it adds to the congestion in addition to the passenger one. so as you put frazier on, passenger on the what we also need to move kind of go through the waterways, the content, ask one barges. what kind of investment will it take to be able to scale up for the

transportation so as to alleviate the pressure of the countries, roads and reduce that congestion put it this way? we do invest a lot of money on vehicles that apply roads. any way i'm talking about private costs. i'm talking about commercial vehicles. so we spend that much money on those as well. different governments spend a lot of money on the buses, all the buses that they go see, it runs most of them up once i leave the say government, and then they will the copies of a nice ations spend a lot of money on stuff, policies and those sorts of things, so those sorts of money is need to be deployed to acquire what crafts you make the case that governments should subsidize transportation. could you, could you elaborate on that for us? if we were to bring of goods, quality international stand at mass specification to the reach of the common that

it has to be some element of government subsidy and it's done all about it was given in developed countries. what is the potential for rail transportation? well, the good news is because it has invested in massively rail you'd have seen in recent years with commission on the rail, the blue line which started the red line is they bought to come on stream. but you must, i must tell you that expenditure investment in real is very capital intensive. so it's not really is one of the most expensive in terms of cape x comp time to get it stopped it, you know, so that is ongoing middle states plan for the really should continue, but i think that needs to be the same measure is not a higher concentration of investment in water transportation will be much cheaper to achieve the same results and it will give us the diversity that we need to population allies, all those modes, but

a whole bunch of negative without natural resources, uh gifts that we have but perhaps the biggest shadow hanging, overlay of gloss is climate change and yeah, the full cost a worry. take a look at these predictions for the areas below the annual flooding levels in the city. it's way cheaper. see that's a combination of the projected sea level rise and the annual floods. the rate areas have no natural barriers to the food at opened ocean looking alfonze rubel. those low line areas become by 2100. fos tracts of the city are set to be rented uninhabitable by sledging as the water eats its way into the landscape of life. and that could yet be a challenge for one of the most impressive attempts to turn lagos into a modern and sustainable city. this huge estate being raised out of the sand on

victoria island is basically a city within the city. and what makes it unique is that it's built on what used to be was. this scrolling development is a new coastal city under construction. on victoria island in lagos, echo atlantic is built on 10000000 square meters of land reclaimed from the atlantic ocean. the area was land about a century ago, that ocean so it just close to to you for some developers pulled vast amounts of sand into the ocean to make dry land for the city to keep the seat in its place. engineers built the great hall of lagos and 8 columbus of buffer, made of 12 layers of rock increase, going as deep as 18 meters under water. the project is far from complete, but the vision is to build the dubai of africa. louisville is one part of that plan . see? i have to task to to task residential. then we have

a commercial podium that seats um, shopping complex is offices um, cinemas. um, multiplex in entertainment studios. then also we are going to have a split the center, which is sitting on top of the retail. most of it cleaned up floating spots cool up . we are in to do many more projects. we seem to say, nicholas has them ensuring that we put the mca full set to be leaving in major and in africa worldwide. a co atlantic is seen as part of the solution to the housing shortage in labels. plants shows estate has the capacity to accommodate up to 300000 residents. but an apartment, to your cost, maybe a $1000000.00 us dollars. making it an enclave for the super rich. it's been almost 15 years since the echo atlantic project started. and it's still pretty much an mc construction sites. investors have been slow to put their money into the

developments. but in sharp contrast, informal statements like this. a springing up and growing rapidly in lagos. millions of people in nigeria is economic have live in communities that get on without public services. people i hear most people cannot afford it. that's house. we manage it. well, you'll flu for the government's leave of state because there's no way to go. now we live off to get the house lazy. thank you. they do they should build a patman for us, for the ones with kitchen to take that side, 5 for the living room. those are the toilets. that was what we want. we want rural urban migration has been the main drive of lagos is population growth. once a fishing village, lagos is today and large metropolis on its way to becoming the world's biggest city,

making it more livable for the millions already here. and the millions most of come will be most muffins. and he has a thoughts to end on. if these full costs come to pause, they'll be more people living in lagos, then the whole of germany. well, it's been good having your company. and as i said, as we started this journey through africa's biggest mega city, i'm a new company here and i've been keeping a photo diary of my 1st impressions. i want to share some of those pictures with you as well. next slide by the

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