Next episode of welcome to Lagos is this Thursday 22nd  same time at 21.00pm on BBC2.






Lagos's version of Venice is a slum, built on water, called Makoko. This three-part observational series continues to explore one of the most extreme urban environments on the planet, by taking a trip into the lives of those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon.

Chubbey is a fisherman who lives in a house built on stilts. With 18 children and five grandchildren to support, he has become an expert at making money from the most unlikely of places. Whether he is building a fish pond in the same water he uses as a lavatory, or renting out a spare room which he has not even built yet, he has always got some scheme or another on the go. But when his teenage son starts to hang out with a local gang, he is left with a dilemma familiar to parents all over the world.

Paul is a saw operator at Ebute Metta, the largest timber yard in West Africa. All the wood that goes into building Lagos passes through this place, floated in on enormous rafts, some over a kilometre long. Paul still sleeps in the saw mill, and would like nothing more than to get a place of his own in Makoko. But so many of his fellow workers keep getting killed that he finds it very hard to save any money, because he keeps having to spend it all on funerals.

Kissme and Daniel are two 'sandboys', who make their living diving for sand from the bottom of the Lagoon and selling it to the building trade. Between them they can fill two dumper trucks a day, collecting every grain of it by hand, with an old iron bucket.

As humans begin to come to terms with an increasingly urban future, this series offers unprecedented access and insight into the lives of just some of the millions of slum dwellers who are living at the sharp end of the fastest growing megacity in the world.



One of the Sandboys unloads the sand that has been dredged by hand from the lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.



Chubbey lives in a house built on Makoko (the floating slum) in Lagos, Nigeria.



Saw operator Paul stands outside his home and workplace; the Ebute Meta sawmill in Lagos, Nigeria.

Episode 2, to start in 1 hour.

BBC2

Looks more like Nollywood movie.

May be BBC is looking for backdoor to break into Nigeria Nollywood Market.

It is the 3rd biggest market in the world.

speechless !

Those people who died in the saw mill

Nigeria Government, wake UP !

Hmmmmm, i don't even know where to start from.
What i simply don't get s why multiply in poverty?
One man with 17 children  

Ogaju. Lagos na wa. 

And the young boys working at the Sawmill. If it took Paul the Supervisor about a year to raise N15k for his rent deposit; I wonder how long it will take Sunday to raise money to go see his parents.
It's great to see everyone pulling together to support the family of the deceased though they all probably don't have much.

And how Chubbay's family were doing the disco over his N4,800 lotto winnings.

The University student struggling to speak good English says something about our Educational system.


Jay bee
He's got 18 oh, no reduce hin pikins. Don't blame the man he has to keep busy  . He appears to be doing well  by his family given the available means though.

This fascinating series continues to look at how people are adapting to modern city life in the 21st century by exploring the slums and ghettos of Lagos, Nigeria. More than 50 per cent of the world's population now live in cities, and that figure is expected to rise to over 70 per cent by 2050. The answer to where humanity could be heading might be found in the lives of the inhabitants of Lagos, one of the world's fastest-growing megacities.

For over six years, Esther has been living with her husband Segun in a house they built themselves from cardboard, scrap wood and tarpaulin on the beach in central Lagos. Every time the government sends its task force to bulldoze their village, she and the thousand or so other inhabitants soon pick up the pieces and build another one. Her best friend, Blessing, is about to give birth here and Esther is worried for her safety. But when she discovers text messages from another woman on her husband's phone, she suddenly has problems of her own to deal with.

Meanwhile, politicians in Lagos are planning sweeping changes to improve the infrastructure and attractiveness of Lagos. Part of their plan to turn it into a 'megacity' involves demolishing the slums, which house so many of its inhabitants. The film follows Sagede, a member of the newly established Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit, which targets illegal dwellings all over the city and clears away everything in its path.

naija here we come, suffering and smiling, in episode welcome to lagos by bbc

Is it showing on dstv, hmmn? bbc world?

Not sure it'd be on dstv however you can find previous series on youtube and BBC Iplayer.

For the conlcuding part which happens to be showing today, you may have to wait a few hours to watch it on youtube and Iplayer.

^ ^ thank you. i've seen previous series