way off the rules, the environment is not responsible. make up your own mind. dw, made full minds. the hello and welcome to this special edition of the, the use effort. today we're in lagos, nigeria, the biggest city in africa. it's a little populous, like no other one which is to become the biggest city in the world by suite 100. today we're asking how can i become more livable? we'll have an inside look at life enabled. our 0 chief starts when you was born. yeah. and still lives. yeah. what sort of life kind of the children expect in the coming decades at the last comp, the population of lake las was about 5000000. today's estimates show that number has bought google, but nobody really knows the truth about that. so how do the millions of people

living in the city get around? well, road traffic is a major problems. yeah. so put, lagos is, was the parties be 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 the 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 dandy de casa, 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 city. these are their current population, so that's 19,

that's $16000000.00 labels and you are about the same talk to kelly much bigger, full cost, say that by 2100 new will be about the same size as it is now. tokyo will shrink a massively lagos. look at this more than 18000000, negotiate assess the projected population, not just africa's biggest city, but the biggest receipts 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? well, essentially it's all built close to was located in south west and nigeria. it's sandwich between the gulf of guinea and make us look good. the city is formed of

a network of island, separated by creeks and lakes. with roots on lagos island did expanded from the on to the mainland, west of the near the metropolitan area. it extends over 40 kilometers inland from the i. i just arrived here, but my colleague large was gone. 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 mesa parts of the city. i've been viewed chief, i dw lagos this twice. besides, what i'm about to take my time is to leave to have my sick or child. like all parents do, i'm thinking about the future. i'd want seemed the best for them. at the moment, more than 16000000 people leave in the symmetric 40 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 that need the hood somewhere 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 as they goes gross challenge is 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 waiting for a while has these looking so i we don't have any way to go. we need to do money

because no money to go to task. home alone. yeah, sure. keep coming on disturbing us during the day and up nice. 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 fall, well we have people who have the house leaving clean. what that is, the luck street. most charming. these here on victoria, i learned by what that from vendors because of what are 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 is a said that there's almost nothing you cannot buy well stuck in and he goes traffic

. and that feels free. the true someone was tried 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 counts. a fee for the as late goes close on straight 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 as fast as it goes.

universal basic education is compulsory for the 1st 9 years or foremost school. and it's free in government schools, schools. but there are only a few of these. so most people up to a private school 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 must be laid goes. 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, unable green spaces like this, are central for people to lead healthy adults to run happy life. this is already struggling to provide for the parents population. what kind of a place will make us we call by the time my own born child is 25 on the population doubles as 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 of the. so those law, some of the challenges identified 5 by 20 flat range to be put into the mega problems facing open 10 is i pulled up with the system. we why i couldn't be at the, at the university of naples. perfect, so good, very, 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 and it goes within 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 dates. because orlando area, it won't even leads on the line you guys. okay. bye bye. mostly about what a lot going, creeks ever with what aspects of making lagos more livable needs the most urgent attention housing and trustworthy. ready 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 as well. and these folks kind i'd housing is, is this huge. so. busy we need to talk ways of uh, accommodation, um 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 issues, these agencies involved obviously unix and they goes uh to kill or developed by the entity to us know government almost agencies in all the population of the residents and amigos the of the right . now, i know homeowners in problem solving tough arrangement by going to actually make you talk with him to make people off as, as to house. that means they're really nice tool. what's the policy is in place? the color is dots. the and pleasure line is visual and skype is where the call it goes. forms with legos owns what is the age that the romans is trying to. and i

introduced mortgage assistance because i mean i go to a mortgage assistance. now i do have one of these is i would 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 rein seen on ending in agents? cities for example. we see the pets and of 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 live. that's cool. but you guys on 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 we'll have

you want to uphold what time will you need, or that is the to do that. so that is the image 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 yet. and the 1000000 small who are projects to to live here in the coming years. yeah. and transfer the is doing a lot. oh man has good intentions. but the problem is not in long as, as really when they're planning on body implementation of the plans. the ministry department on agents is ongoing. i know provided for the need to do this and that the we fit safely 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,

as someone who is always altima balance and the fits your legacy does it to my destination on time. i think the quickest way possible is almost a daily target. so how can one get from point a to point b after you guys? most of all 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've got this right. so what i'll do was take this into a world when it comes to traffic, right? that's fucking, it's trying to avoid it. you don't have any option. godrays is. so the most authors, and it's obvious only see the problem was new. we have to go through and you know, it's always way to the

with this comments traffic. we could be here for more than 3 hours. he wouldn't mall when it's rainy season. so times of front of that means of commuting in lagos . this is illegal, it's blue line last the september 20, when a pretty good call moves thousands of precedents as daily and is welcomed as a quick way to move around the lagos, preinstalled 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 a very 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, less successful ways to move out on the lagos my days. i know that the,

in the last couple of days, what, that's what the nice thing about increasing the number of buffing just is getting more popular. i mean, what's like the book on several to broad dispatchers in lagos, in less than an hour. lagos is essentially surrounded by water, as you know, we can do that once. it's also stays on, is definitely the next frontier, illegal. it's has the metal time savings. um, it has the capacity to as well to, to as to and so that of course it is less couple emissions to environment. so it's environmental friendly. it's conducive. it says your 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 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 can break the stranglehold of the internal combustion into? well, i suppose to let the know and diploma 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 put pollution, keeps going out on explanation rates, you'll get to it points where you can really have so many calls on the roads. and then when you add to that, that link us is less than a phone 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 route. 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 we're getting to watch 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 compet. 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 we put pressure on the 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 for 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 the vehicles that play roads any way i'm talking about private cause i'm talking about commercial vehicles. so we spend enough money on those as well. even government spends a lot of money on the buses, all the buses that they go see, it runs most of them up once i, let's say government. and then when the culprits organizations 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 craft you make the case that governments should subsidize transportation. could you, could you elaborate on that for the way to bring of goods, quality international stand that my spouse petition to the reach of that come on that there 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 they go see, 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 real should continue, but i think that needs to be the same measure. it's not a higher concentration of investment and what a 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 with natural resources. so the gifts that we have but perhaps the biggest shadow hanging of a lagos 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 sweet 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 rouble. those low line areas become by 2100 foss. tracts of the city are set to be rented uninhabitable by flooding, as the water eats its way into the landscape of late. 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 new coastal city under construction on victoria island in lagos. it co atlantic is built on 10000000 square meters of land reclaimed from the atlantic ocean. the area was land about a century ago. that ocean city just close to see where some 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 tasks, the 2 tags, residential. then we have

a commercial podium that seats um shopping complexes, offices um cinemas, um, multiplex in entertainment studios. then also we're going to have a split the center which is sitting on top of the retail, most of where cleaned up floating spots cool up. we are in to do many more projects . we seem to same equities them. and showing 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 in apartment $2.00 costs, maybe a 1000000 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 have most people cannot afford it. that's house. we manage you well yes. blue for the government to leave us because there's no way to 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. if you take the big sy fi 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, a 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 have come, will be most muffins. and he has a thoughts to and 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. yeah. 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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