Nigeria

Informality and Social Protection

Navigating the Urban Informal Landscape: Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa Cities

By |2024-01-09T14:40:53+01:00January 9th 2024|

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the urban informal sector accounts for the majority of businesses and employment, yet workers face minimal access to formal social protection. Sharon Onyango explores the link between urban informality and social protection, proposing innovative approaches for inclusive economies in African cities.

Energy in Cities

Navigating Heterogeneity: The Way to a Just Energy Transition in the Global South’s Housing Sector

By |2024-01-05T12:59:12+01:00April 20th 2023|

Achieving a just energy transition in the urban housing sectors of the Global South demands recognition and engagement with their heterogeneous energy networks and rapidly evolving spatialities. Marie Urfels explores the challenges of achieving a just energy transition in the housing sector of the Global South while emphasising the importance of embracing these complexities to create targeted, context-specific solutions.

Urban Health

Expanding the Frontiers of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit

By |2024-01-04T16:40:32+01:00September 22nd 2022|

Public transportation systems are about so much more than bringing you from A to B. Engineer and transport planner Otunola Abiodun Adebayo sheds light on emerging urban transport systems in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, from the perspective of urban health and safety.

Achieving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Lagos State

By |2024-01-04T15:38:27+01:00January 18th 2022|

Youths in Lagos face significant challenges regarding access to quality sexual and reproductive health education and services. Since 2011, Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative (YEDI), an adolescent health organisation, has been working to improve the health and wellbeing of adolescents and their communities in Nigeria.

Four Ways to Democratise Research on Urban Land Rights

By |2024-01-04T15:04:52+01:00December 7th 2021|

Inclusive research design has the potential to turn “beneficiaries” into experts and agents of change. Rebecca Enobong Roberts makes a strong case for why urban land rights researchers need to proactively consult the groups they study, not just observe them.

Understanding Dynamics of Urban Poverty in Nigeria: What Role for Urban Governance?

By |2024-01-04T14:58:43+01:00September 14th 2021|

How are rapid urbanisation, urban poverty, and slums' emergence interconnected in Nigeria? And what areas of urban governance should local governments focus on if they are to successfully tackle urban poverty? Bassey Bassey shares some reflections.

How a Misdirected Land Use Law Disregards Coastal Dwellers’ Rights

By |2024-01-04T14:24:58+01:00March 25th 2021|

Lagos' Waterfront Infrastructure Development Law facilitates the sacrifice of the rights of coastal residents to commercial real estate development. Omotayo Odukola on the constitution and unjust implementation of a land use law.

Mapping Makoko: A Community Stating its Right to Exist

By |2024-01-04T14:05:57+01:00September 24th 2020|

Makoko, one of Lagos' largest slums, used to be a blank spot on the map for most of its history. This has been changing with a community-based digital mapping project that enables the residents to articulate their rights.

Local Governance in Nigeria: An Unsettling State of Affairs

By |2024-01-04T13:46:13+01:00September 1st 2020|

Local governments in Nigeria have financial autonomy – technically. Idayat Hassan, Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja, reveals why they are still severely disempowered and what needs to be done to revive them.

Media Making an Impact: #ChangeOurPicture

By |2024-01-04T08:53:55+01:00January 30th 2020|

A photo competition called for urban residents in African countries to portray how they use media to change the narrative on their environment. Slum Dwellers International presents some beautiful results of the #ChangeOurPicture competition.

How Local Governments Can Support Micro-Businesses and Start-Ups

By |2024-01-03T16:47:52+01:00August 13th 2019|

Start-ups and Micro-businesses drive innovation and quality control and provide employment. The intervention of local governments can create conditions where such small businesses can thrive, says Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni.

Importing Used Electronics from Developed Countries to Nigeria: Problems and Solutions

By |2024-01-03T16:18:48+01:00April 17th 2019|

While Nigeria has made a leap in access to information communication technology (ICT) and the Internet in the past two decades, many of its residents still depend on imported used electrical and electronic equipment (UEEE). Since many of them turn out to be waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), they worsen the challenge of electronic waste management. Prof. Oladele Osibanjo and Dr. Innocent Nnorom discuss this trade along with its environmental and human health implications.

Youth Employment in Lagos, Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities

By |2024-01-03T14:56:57+01:00February 7th 2019|

In Lagos, youth are believed to constitute about 50 per cent of the population, equalling over 10 million people. Facing high rates unemployment and an ever-growing population, decision-makers need to understand both the challenges and the opportunities that characterise youth employment in Lagos, argues Oje Ivagba

Rural-Urban Migration and Youth Unemployment in Nigeria: Why Public Programmes Fail

By |2024-01-03T14:57:17+01:00February 6th 2019|

With many young Nigerians relocating from rural to urban areas, unemployment is on the rise. Charles Ogheneruonah Eghweree and Festus Imuetinyan sketch out possible policy responses.

Lagos: The Gaps Between Urban Policy and Urban Reality

By |2024-01-02T15:49:26+01:00October 30th 2018|

In Lagos, Nigeria, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) are common in urban planning projects. But whom do they benefit: people or profit? Dr Taibat Lawanson argues that the city's urban development strategy focusses too much on PPPs and thus favours profit over people – and calls to the state government to shift its focus back to a policy that benefits all citizens.

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