Commuters waiting at a bus stop in Lagos
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Some anti-corruption messages can encourage apathy and acceptance rather than inspire activism
Plastic bottles, containers and other waste washed up from the Lagos lagoon at one of the waterfront jetties
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Pollutants from industrial and domestic sources in the Lagos lagoon represent a cocktail of environmental contaminants.
An aerial view of a part of Lagos.
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High temperatures, periods of increased relative humidity and more rainfall are likely to happen more in Nigeria’s coastal region under future global warming.
Lagos State plans to embark on mass planting of trees
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Precautions must be taken to realise the full advantage of the benefits associated with trees.
An aerial view of a waterfront slum in Lagos, Nigeria.
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The Lagos state government must go beyond food packages as stimulus, and build capacity for poor people.
A market area in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, crowded with people despite the coronavirus pandemic, May 12, 2020.
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COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
Lagos residents need to know more about the risk of heavy storms.
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Lagos is vulnerable to heavy storms but the impact can be mitigated with better preparation.
Lagos has several slum settlements.
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Lagos poses a set of particular challenges when it comes to making interventions work.
Plastic washed up on the seashore in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s government must encourage citizens to embrace a system where plastic never become waste.
For Africa’s urban populations, new cities might not be the surest solution.
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Constructing fancy ‘smart cities’ might not be the best solution for Africa’s rapidly urbanising populations.
The Conversation Africa is expanding in West Africa.
Lagos was affected positively and negatively by Nigeria’s emergence as a crude oil producer in the 1970s.
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The foundations of orderliness for any city are planning and management. Lagos had this in place in the early days.
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The role and efficacy of the traditional crime-prevention measures in Iraye-Oke are widely acknowledged by people who live in the area.
The infamous Makoko slum in Lagos, Nigeria.
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In our urban world, turning the makeshift and the informal into the livable and sustainable is our greatest challenge.
Africa has tried for decades to develop robust intra-regional trade. Free trade agreement is the most recent effort
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Now that African countries have signed up for the continental free trade agreement, they must complete the institutional loop by jumpstarting the creation of the African Monetary Fund.
The Otigba Computer Village shows that sharing knowledge widely benefits all businesses in a cluster.
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The Otigba Computer Village shows how businesses in a largely informal market identify new and useful knowledge, apply it innovatively to scale up their operations and increase profits.
Building collapses in Lagos have become common in recent years.
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Lagos has all the appropriate laws but it needs to adopt the right procedures and see them through.
Nigeria needs to review existing structures to drive growth.
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State governments in Nigeria are increasingly playing the role reserved for the federal government.
Biomedical innovations can work with traditional methods like x-rays to guide doctors’ decisions.
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African countries need to start producing and developing their own medical devices. Suitably skilled biomedical engineers are needed for this sort of innovation to take root.
The Oluwole Urban Market near Marina in Lagos. Being middle class is more than just being a consumer.
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Scholars have started to investigate what it really means to be middle class in Africa.