Over population

• Over-population


  Pressure on natural resources, high levels of air and water pollution, and a lack of essential services such as health care and education
• In 2013 Nigeria had a population of 175 million people with over 60% living on less than one dollar a day
• Nigeria occupies only 3% of Africa but is home to over 15% of its people
• Over-population in Nigeria


  Overcrowding and lack of accommodation, increased disease levels, inadequate sanitation and scarcity of resources for medical care and education
• Lack of employment and poverty, and the desperation to survive in Nigeria


  Increased crime rate and serious over-congestion of public transport, roads and bridges
• Lagos, Nigeria


  • Largest city in Africa
  • Wall-to-wall people
  • Bumper-to-bumper cars
  • Noise and pollution beyond belief
  • Intimidating crime rate
  • Public utilities cannot cope with the number of people who need to use them
  • Elevated motorways jammed with speed freaks and absurd traffic jams ('go-slows')
  • Tin-and-cardboard shacks underneath the motorways
• Lagos, Nigeria


  • Major port
  • British political centre
  • Nigeria's capital until 1991
• Makoko, a slum in Lagos, Nigeria has tens of thousands of people living in unhygienic conditions with no public services
• Four different families live in one house in Lagos, and all of them wash their plates, pots, clothes and empty the water and mess through a pipe
• When a resident was a kid, only two families lived in their Lagos suburb, but now there are six different tenants sharing the facilities