the, the hello and welcome to this special edition of the, the use african. 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 it become more livable? we'll have an inside the lights. it may have on our 0 cheap stars when you was phone. yeah. and still lives. yeah. what sort of life can her children expect in the coming decades at the last come to the population of lake last was about 5 minutes. today's estimate. so that number has part google, but nobody really knows pictures about that. so how to the millions of people

living in the city get around? well, road traffic is a major problem. 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 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 tape. we've been talking close to come pay new. so to and labels currently effort his biggest city these odd their current population. that's 19, that's 16000000 leg. i'll send you are about the same tokyo's candy. much bigger.

full cost. say that by 2100 new will be about the same size as it is now. tokyo will shrink mass would be an lagos. look at that. more than 18000000. negotiate assess the projected population, not just africa's biggest city, but the biggest to see in the world. 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 to was located in south west and nigeria. it's sandwich between the gulf of guinea and lagos, and the 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 the metropolitan area. it extends over 40 kilometers inland from the i . i just arrived here but my colleague marshall bon, you was born yes. once to send you about the joys and the challenges of living in naples lee, this is my home. i live here on victoria. i live and it's one of the mesa parts of the city. i've been 02. i 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 legal symmetric for the sign area. by the time i o one child is 25, that number would have double to 33000000 by 2100. lagos is expected to be

the waltz, most popular cities, 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 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, hosp to state insurance is like this one. the waiter for our house is looking, so i we don't have any way to go. we need to do money. you can go some money to go to the house on the show. keep coming on disturbing us during the day and up nice.

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 for we'll see up people who have the house leaving clean. what size is the luxury 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 counter feet product. as life goes close on shape expands, 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 see out of pocket for everything. magazine, treatment tests and so on. so people prefer to use private clinics, which might be more expensive. what she meant to be faxed. it goes universal. basic education is compulsory for the 1st 9 years or foremost school.

and it's free in government schools. but there are only a few of these. so most people off 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. most of the leg 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 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 the time i own one child is 25 on the population doubles us is expected. the challenge is about signing con lagos,

rise to the challenge and provide these essential for us to me, please forgive me for all millions of citizens of the so those law, some of the challenges identified by connie flourish to sell deeper into the mega problem spacing, open 10 is i caught up with the system, we want a good day at the university of naples for if it's a good day. thank you so much for talking to d. w. we're sitting in the city lake last. that is full cost it to be the world's biggest city. by 2100 estimates have is 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 leg 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, in the country is one of those states that sounds orlando area it one day. the little lynetta is local by mostly about was a long creeks ever with what aspects of making lagos more livable needs the most urgent attention housing on trustworthy is. ready public transportation analysis, people tellers on daily basis in terms of having access to quality. also if you look at the population we were living in swamp and these folks on that housing. and so is this huge. so. busy we need to talk with your 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 on the daily routine on the label prints. what

is the solution for housing? how i should say plan is be thinking about making sure or demographics can access housing. the majority usually is these agencies involve policy, unix in their goes uh to kill or developed by the entity to us know governments almost 80 percent of the population of the resident amigos. the, the rates, not homeowners, in terms of interpretation by government to actually make the property to make people have access to houses. that means they really mean to put some, the policy is in place. the color is dots. the and flesh alarm is visual and stuff is what they call it goes forms with legos owns what is

this that the government is trying to and i introduced mortgage the state because i mean i go to the mothers system now, why do i have one of these is i would go to the bank to borrow money to give us. ready 5 percent or thereabouts. so that means most people cannot 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 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 living thoughts. 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 in long as, as really when they've turned body implementation of the plans. the ministry to 5 minutes on agents is ongoing. no problem for the need to do this thing that they do . we fix the key implemented as long as you just to be at a pointed to transport and housing as the 2 biggest challenges facing lasers. 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 ballots. and it fits you up late goes directly to

my destination on time. and if 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 the roadside spot is the most come on in the city of lagos, in cost point for the pots bosses just like this. but he has the bad news. they've got this right, so what i'll do what it is in the world when it comes to traffic, dried ass, fucking, it's or trying to avoid it. we don't have any of show godrays who so the most of us and it's obvious abc, the, this new you have to, you know, it's on his way 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 is blue line long as the september twenty's when a pretty good commute, thousands of precedents as daily and is welcomed as a quick way to move around the lagos, preinstalled transports. when i spoke in trust for 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 drug 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's also gives me value for money as well. so that's one of the quick i, i less successful ways to move around the legal what days. i know the, the,

in the last couple of years, what that sounds like, there's an, i've seen that increasing the number of buffing just, it's getting more popular. i mean, what's like the book on starting to grab this? got this in lagos, in less than an hour. niggas is safe, is surrounded by water, as you know, who believe that what such also stays on is definitely the next frontier. when they go, it 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 environmentally 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 to city. cycling is definitely healthy and clean up the present some challenges to i would i be 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 live the now 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 put pollution. 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 legacy 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 what is the consultation? 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 about the, 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 leg goes 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 of fishing 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 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 on 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 they will need copies of the 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 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 about it was

given in developed countries. what is the potential for rail transportation? well, the good news is they're gonna 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 come down 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 that 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 good at open ocean looking alfonze rouble. 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 for wanting 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. the area was land about a century ago. the ocean search is close to the river. some developers pulled vast amounts of sand into the ocean to make dry line for the city to keep the seat in its place. engineers built the great hall of lagos, an economics of buffet made of 12 layers of rock increase, going as deep as 18 meet his underwater. the project is far from complete, but the vision is to build the dubai of africa. louisville is one part of that plan staff to task due to task 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 spot in 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 say, nicholas has them ensuring that we put the mca full sets, it'd 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. 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'll manage it. well, you'll flu for the government and we will stay because there's no way to move. now we leave 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 from 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 of 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 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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