URBANISATION

History
• Lagos State was created on
May 27, 1967 by virtue of
State (Creation and
Transitional Provisions)
Decree No. 14 of 1967.
• Lagos was Nigeria’s
administrative capital until
12th December 1991 when
Abuja became the seat of
federal government
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Government
• The state was/is
administered either by a
Governor under civil rule or
by Military Administrators
in military dispensations
• Lagos State is divided into 5
administrative division,
which are further divided
into 37local government
areas
Geography
• Lagos state is the smallest
state in Nigeria, with an
area of 356,861
hectares(3,577 sq km) ,yet
it has the highest
population, which is over
five per cent of the national
estimate. The state has a
population of 17 million.
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• Lagos State lies to the south-western part of
the Federation. It shares boundaries with
Ogun State both in the North and East and
is bounded on the west by the Republic of
Benin.
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Map of Nigeria
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Administrative Map of Lagos State

Our Culture
• Food
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Eba with egusi soup Amala with efo riro

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Roasted plantain with groundnut Roasted corn

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• Dressing, Music and Dance

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• Wedding
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Festival and Carnival
• Eyo festival
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 Religious Activity
• Winners Chapels( Cannan land).A capacity of
50,000 Seat with overflow of over 100,000
What is Urbanisation?
• It is the shift from a rural to
an urban society, and
involves an increase in the
number of people in urban
areas during a particular
year. Urbanization is the
outcome of social,
economic and political
developments that lead to
urban concentration and
growth of large cities.
 The specifics
• The UN estimates that at its present growth rate,
Lagos state will be third largest mega city in the
world by 2015 after Tokyo in Japan and
Bombay in India.
• The rate of population growth is about 600,000
per annum with a population density of about
4,193 persons per sq. km
• In the built-up areas of Metropolitan Lagos, the
average density is over 20,000 persons per
square km.
• Lagos population is growing ten times faster than
New York and Los Angeles (Lagos State
Government, 2006).
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Histogram Chart by Emeka
Data Soure:Lagos State
Government
Why do people migrate to Lagos?
 What people say:
• Economic Gain
• Social Enlightment
• Survival
Consequences
• Infrastruture crisis. Crisis of different pattern and sectors in
unplanned districts

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Source: Lagos Cartoon Network

Not all district like that
Historical Causes
 Colonial Administrator
• Colonial patterns of social and
political inequality .
• Poorer region, districts were
abandoned in favour of new
strategies of segregation b/w
wealthy enclaves &the
supposedly indifferent general
population
• Incorporated the existing power
structures of chieftaincy into
the apparatus of government to
produce a unstable legacy of
authoritarian and undemocratic
control over the African
majority
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• Transform the port into the ‘Liverpool of

West Africa’ yet attempts to improve urban
conditions were hampered by lack of
financial support from the British Treasury
• Immense social inequalities, ethnic tensions
and political instability .
 Post Colonial
• Change of regime (military
regime:1984-1999)
• Civil war (1967): the city’s
difficulties were further
exacerbated by huge waves
of migration from eastern
parts of the country after the
war
• Concentration of Commerce
• Religious, ethnic conflict
• Organisational complexities
and political tensions
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 Lagos Lifestyle
• The flaunting of tangible and
intangible possessions
became part of a
systematic display of new
social and economic
hierarchies that
exacerbated the
desperation of the
impoverished
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Paradigm Shift
Mega City Project(Present and
Future Lagos)

Vision: Sustainble Development Initiated by Governor

Fashola
 Restucturing
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-sYC94DYG
Demolition of pyhsical structure
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• Clean and green
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-WTMPzD
• Rail system
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAUkY_bOL
• Eko Atlantic
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSyznCi0K
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8h
• Lekki
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZ
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Conclusion
Eko o ni baje o