and i would be going to be find it here, repos here, every weekend on d. w. 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. by 2100. today we're asking how kind of become more livable. we'll have an inside look at life. enables our bureau chief starts when you was phone. yeah. and still lives . yeah. what sort of life can her children expect in the coming decades? at the last comes the population of lake las was about 5000000. today's estimates show that number has part google,

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

your car is population. that's 19, that's 16000000 legal send. you are about the same. talk to kelly much bigger paul cost say that by 2100 new will be about the same size as it is now. toko will shrink massively and labels look at bit more than 18000000 negotiate. that's the projected population, not just africa's biggest city, but the biggest to see in the world. and here's a nother 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. 8 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 expanded from the on to the mainland, west of the the metropolitan area. it extends over 40 kilometers inland from the i . i just arrived here, but my colleague partial vine you was born. yeah. once 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 stuff parts of the city. i've been 0 dw lagos, this tracy says one, and i'm about to take my time to leave to have my 2nd child. like all parents do, i'm thinking about the future on one team, the best for them. at the moment, more than 16 mean, the young people leave in the legal symmetrical nissan area. by the time i, a one child is 25,

a 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 walk 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 as. 2 goes, challenges to find them, 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, hosp to state insurance is like this one. waiting for what has this looking? so i, we don't have any way to go, we need to do money,

goes no money to go to, has it on the show. keep coming on disturbing us during the day and at night they demolish our shante has as 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 have the house leaving clean what that is the luck street. most for me, these here on victoria, i learned by what that from thing those because of what that all the taps looks like. this the as much as people move here field with the hope that not enough jobs to go around. so many find creative ways of making money. like these guys sending on the streets is a said that there's almost nothing you cannot buy well spoken and he goes traffic.

and that feels free the 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 in an open market, but they're also full of counter feed for the. as legal support, i'm sure the expands, the city will need to put more structure in place to regulate. it gets fixed in thinking about the future of my children. i also have to close to the health care. most people, the nigeria, i don't have access to health insurance that only very few public costs because they usually are crowded 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 you've made before it goes

universal. basic education is compulsory for the 1st 9 years or foremost school. and it's free in governments on schools. well, there are only a few of these. so most people up to a private school that many of them are around for this have been really expensive. every time it 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. all these are many, she's accommodation, health care, work, education, and even green spaces like this. i central for people to lead healthy adults keep on happy life. this is already struggling to provide for the parents population. what kind of a place will make us recall by the time i own one child is 25 on the population

doubles us is expected. the challenge is about signing can lagos rise to the challenge and provide these essential for activities for the be, for all millions of citizens of the so those law, some of the challenges identified 5 by connie flat range to be put into the mega problems facing open 10 is i caught up with the 1st time we went up and be at the, at the university of naples, proficient with the id. thank you so much for talking to dw. we're sitting in the city league 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 and it goes within the political boundary. will mag united don't have

enough land because most of these actually have a platform, the 5 being the smallest. because a line united states in the country is one of those states, the 1000 orlando area it one day, the little atlanta is local by mostly about was a log wall, creeks ever with what aspects of making lagos more livable needs the most urgent attention housing. and transport. ready public transportation analysis, people tell legs on daily basis in terms of having access to quality. also if you look at the population, we will live in islam and these folks on that housing and so is this huge. so. busy we need to talk ways of accommodation. i'm probably transportation to this and uh, people able to move freely. it would lead me to, i mean, really, to ankle processing the daily routine on delivery. 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 unix and they goes uh to kill or developed by the individuals, no government, almost agencies in all the population of the resident amigos. they have the rights done on home on us in terms of interpretation, by government to actually make a property to make people off as, as to house. that means they really mean to puts the policy is in place. the court has dots the and flesh alarm ministration on stop is what they call it

goes forms with legos owns what is this that the government is trying to. and i introduced mortgage assistance because i mean i go to have more. ready systems i know we do have more business then we go to the bank to borrow money to give us. ready a 5 percent or thereabouts. so that means most people kind of do it on their own. so do you have to rely on ranging on anything in agents, cities, for example, we see the pets and will 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 possibly the info. it's cool, but you guys on challenges on individuals for as long as you was a good infrastructure. elizabeth the for instance, because anything above 4 or 5 flaws you was the beauty of goes to place a most of individual to take people. so you don't have electricity,

so we'll have you want to uphold. 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 people forties of thinking in, in the right way, in terms of making lagos more livable for, for the millions who already lives yet and the 1000000 small? who are projected to live here in the coming years? yeah. and transfer the do a lot. oh man has good intentions. but the problem is not as long as, as really when you're planning on body implementation of the plans, the ministry to 5 minutes on agencies will go into, i know, probably coordinate to do this then that, that then we fits safely implemented as long as you just to be added, pointed to transport and housing as the 2 biggest challenges facing labels to now use only such a cool one knows his way around town. even when the exact roost can be a challenge to navigate as someone who is always altima balance and the fits your

play goes directly to my destination on time. i think the quickest way possible is almost a target to hold on one get from point a to point b. after because most of philosophy, the roadside spot is the most. come on in the city of lagos, in cost point for the parts of buses just like this. but he has the bad news. they've 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 all trying to avoid. it's no avenue of show. godrays is. so the most authors, and it's obvious that we see the progress new we have to go through and your thought is, is we to the,

with this conference traffic, we could be here for more than 3 hours, even more when it's ready, season, so 10th of front of that means of commuting in lagos. this is a leg goes blue line last the september 2023. it commutes thousands of precedents as daily and is welcomed as a quick way to move around the lagos, inside transports, when i spoke in trust, but at least one that wants to be before it gets a agreed, what'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 quickest. i less successful ways to move around the lagos my days. i know that

the in the last couple of years. what about the nice thing about increasing the number of buffing just is getting more popular? i mean, what's like the book on start will do broad dispatchers in lagos, in less than an hour. lagos is essentially surrounded by water, as you know, who believe that was, that's also stays on, 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 to environment. so it's environmental and friendly. it's conducive. it saves you time. i mean the benefits are in this system is 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 id my way to get some food. see

a list that you can what they improving. that's the wheels can be good, but what? 10 break the stranglehold of the internal combustion engine? well, i suppose to live, you know, in the form of transport, commissioner for the legal 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 publish and keep screwing out an explanation rates. you'll get to a point where you can't really have so many calls on the roads. and then when you add to that, that lagos is less, then i've gone down to what to but that way yet to make an appreciable impact in terms of its usage. then clearly that means that he owns root. we have to look to

the other 2 possible modes of transportation for legal stage, which will be the real, which i do in to some extent and to what uh, which are not doing to any level that. so let's pick up with what is the consultation? it's been described as the next frontier for mobility in lagos. what kind of potential that's a task like 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 if we're getting into what's pick time. now, you see that the calls are almost at a stand still 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 one, for us as a people is to transfer a lot of that appraisal that will put on the roads onto the waterways. so that will

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 called 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 of each in 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. it's not even real. it's and of course winful that's frazier. even from the cargo comes on the road, it has to be congestion. in addition to the passenger one, so as you put pressure on passenger on the what we also need to move kind of go through the waterways, the content ask on one barges. what kind of investment will it take to be able to scale up water, 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 cause i'm talking about commercial vehicles. so we spend that much money on those as well. the different government spends a lot of money on the buses, all the buses that they go see, it runs most of them up once i leave the state government and then it will be a co pay to have a nice ation. 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 that my spouse petition to the reach of that come on that it has to be some element of government subsidy and it's done all the

gifts that we have but perhaps the biggest shadow hanging overlay costs is climate change and yeah, the full cost a worry take a look at these projections for the areas below the annual flooding levels in the city. in sweetie, percy, 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 foss. 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 spring development is a new coastal city under construction on victoria island in lagos. echo atlantic is those on 10000000 square meters of land reclaimed from the atlantic ocean. as the area was land about a century ago. that ocean so it just closed its ears. developers pulled vast amounts of sand into the ocean to make dried line for the city to keep the seat in its place. engineers built the great hall of lagos and a columbus of buffet. made of 12 layers of rock increase going as deep as 18 meters underwater. the project is far from complete, but the vision is to build the dubai of africa. louisville is one part of that plan . we have 2 tags 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 well cleaned up, floating spots cool up. we aim 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 yeah, of course. maybe a 1000000 us dollars making it an enclave for the super rich. it's been almost 15 years since the eco atlantic project started. and it's still pretty much an mc construction site. investors have been slow to put their money into the

developments, but in sharp contrast, informal statements like this of 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 are here. most people cannot afford it. that's house. we manage it as well. yes. please. for the government's leave of state, because as low as now we leave off to get the house is noisy. thank you. they do they should build a patman for us for the ones with kitchen, you have to take that side 5 for the living room. those are the and 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 the 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 until next time by the

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