₦airaland Forum

ebubeson:
If they show the most populous city in Nigeria, you may see Kano instead of Lagos. Is Kano more populated than Lagos?

Not anymore
Insecurities in the North has changed that

We have few southerners in the north now

ebubeson:
If they show the most populous city in Nigeria, you may see Kano instead of Lagos. Is Kano more populated than Lagos?

By far!

Almajiri numbers can't rule that out

Odenscollection:
There is no way kano is more populated than lagos. Lagos is the number one commercial hub state in Nigeria. Just apapa local government is the richest LGA in Nigeria in terms of internal generated revenue. Only apapa we have companies like Dangote sugar, flour, cement. Tincan island, wharf, folawiyo, eleganza, MRS. Nipco, Capital oil and gas. Ibeto, SPG, Westminster, Total energy, Mobil depot, Mtn headquarters, etc

Are you from Lagos by origin or from the other South west state.

ebubeson:
If they show the most populous city in Nigeria, you may see Kano instead of Lagos. Is Kano more populated than Lagos?

What is the average family size in Lagos?
What is the average age at marriage in Lagos?
What's the total fertility rate of a woman in Lagos?
What is the average number of wives per husband in Lagos?

These are the major determinants of population size.

tetralogyfallot:
lolz! Where is even the landmass that can accommodate people in lagos? The whole of lagos theres no where u can drive straight for 2hr or even 1hr assuming theres zero traffic. But from kano metropolitan to doguwa local government in d same kano is over 3hrs journey. Secondly, local government is not just created cos of population alone, landmass is a very potent factor they consider before carving out local government. Thirdly, because of security issues in most north eastern states most people tends to migrate to kano as its the only state with very low level of banditry and kidnappings. How many children yoruba people dey born sef? Its a common thing here to see a hausa man with 4 wives and each having over 10 children.

If you want to drive your point with landmass then use Niger State. A State that's almost 4 times the size of Kano and has less than 1/3 population of Kano. The lg is 25 compared to Kano of 44.
Why focus on childbirth and landmass as if the 2 are the only factors that determines population growth.What is the birth ratio in Tokyo and landmass. Now compare it with "how many children Yoruba dey born sef"
Tokyo is 2/3 the size of lagos and 1/10 the size of Kano. Tokyo population is bigger than Kano at 37 million.
Google:
"The total population of Tokyo depends on how you measure the city. Tokyo's central administrative area (the 23 special wards and overall prefecture) has about 14 million people, while the wider Greater Tokyo metropolitan region holds roughly 37 million residents, making it the most populous urban area on Earth."
The issue of census was skewed to favour North for more federal allocations. It is not about Lagos alone. Old Kaduna and old Imo State used to have the same population. Look up the population of the states carved out from them to see the huge gap

sevenhundred:
please don't spread fake information, Kano people don't move around unlike Lagos where people move around because of nature of their business but Kano people are mostly farmers in the village, if you stayed in Kano, you will understand.

I schooled in kano

Most of the population are in the local government areas within the kano metropolis

I went to alot of rural areas and other LGs

As I said I was in kano for a long time
I left just 2yrs ago

Chris225:
I schooled in kano

Most of the population are in the local government areas within the kano metropolis

I went to alot of rural areas and other LGs

As I said I was in kano for a long time
I left just 2yrs ago

just because you school in Kano? Give an explanation or simple analysis of their population,for instance: an average Kano man age 25 to 35 has 2 or more wives 5 children or more, compared that to Lagos life.

Validated:
OK movement is looking good to haul about 3m votes from Kano and poll 1.7m from Lagos. They will shock the "fake owners" of Rivers with 1m votes while Wike and Amaechi are fighting in the boxing ring of political supremacy. Fubara is already showing Neutrality, afterall he has NOTHING at stake.

Effeminate Obi may win all the votes in Nigeria but you that presidency he won't see it.

Bullman:
There are more hausa speakers than the hausa tribe.. I hope you know sir

We're talking about the Hausa tribe, not speakers. I know that there are more Hausa speakers.

akpumping7720:
The only village left in Lagos is Epe; even Epe is fast becoming a city. So Lagos will attract more visitors than Kano while Kano may have more residents than Lagos.

I beg stop. Epe my town is NOT a village. Know the difference between a village and a town.

PigTormentor:
I beg stop. Epe my town is NOT a village. Know the difference between a village and a town.

Sorry oooooh omo Epe alare. Are you from iragunshi?

akpumping7720:

Sorry oooooh omo Epe alare. Are you from iragunshi?

I'm omo Epe Alaro, from main Epe town.

ebubeson:
If they show the most populous city in Nigeria, you may see Kano instead of Lagos. Is Kano more populated than Lagos?

e de Play ⏯️
Op P,you have Not said anything - by Analysis ,
Or Statistics,
or by interest but just Asymmetric perfidy .
Please 🥺, bring on this

ebubeson:
If they show the most populous city in Nigeria, you may see Kano instead of Lagos. Is Kano more populated than Lagos?

e de Play ⏯️
OP,you have Not said anything - by Analysis ,
Or Statistics- is Kano ever has more Population?
or by interest but just Asymmetric perfidy .
Please 🥺, bring this on,let us know,as some people here are Politicians footsoldiers or Brown Envelope Managers!
We can see the tricks!

Lagos welcomes more visitors bc of it being the commercial nerve of the country. Seaport, Airports, peace loving location SW. All these gave it the edge. Not bc it’s former capital. Calabar is also a former capital.

franchasng:
Very accurate answer. Lagos welcomes more visitors (business, tourists, political, etc) because of its former status as Nigeria's capital and economic capital.



Muritala Mohammed Intl airport was Nigeria's only international entry and exit airports for decades, which made Nigerians to prefer it for traveling out of Nigeria and in even after other international airports were built.


Another thing is, Lagos have more productive population than Kano

Jakarta:
Imagine a one room apartment with 7 inhabitants VS a 3 bed room apartment with 4 inhabitants per bedroom.

Total inhabitants 1 room: = 7
Total inhabitants 3 bedrooms = 12

At first glance which of the apartments will look more crowded between the single 1 room apartment vs the 3 bed room apartment?

Your analogy is loopside that one room with 7 inhabitants multiple it by 8 rooms If you have lived in face me i face you that 7x8=56 that 56 people living in one compound your 3 bed room higest duplex one 3 bedroom up and another 3 bedroom below total inhabitant will be 24. Lagos is crowded by far no space no forest no bush again infact they are building inside canal and reclaiming land Lagos has drifted to as far as goin state in all outskirts berga mowe ,sango , Epe , Ikorodu, ayobo, ojuore command you name it.

U

MartinCorridon:
I didn't believe it 100% before I got to Kano. After Kano ... I believe it 50%

A taxi driver was boasting to me that he has 26 children .... That guy was at max, 40 years old.

The females he said they are married off by first menses. Seen many like him.

The divorce culture is Kano is on another level.... Talaq 3x... You land in your papa house.

I know a woman who's been married to 3 men. 1x, 2x and 3x. She said the single marriage had smallpipe so that one didn't return for Part 2. A woman married 9 times. 4 men on the same street. Guys will marry a girl, do all the rites just for access to the well. 6 months dem don dump am.

The high divorce rate is sadly true.

Jakarta:
Imagine a one room apartment with 7 inhabitants VS a 3 bed room apartment with 4 inhabitants per bedroom.

Total inhabitants 1 room: = 7
Total inhabitants 3 bedrooms = 12

At first glance which of the apartments will look more crowded between the single 1 room apartment vs the 3 bed room apartment?

but it's in the desert though
Every other country reduces population towards the desert

If sane people were involved this wouldn't be up for debate. A census would be held and the result will be credible, no questions asked.

The biggest group of black people can't even count themselves. Hahahahaha

Some 1,500 couples got married at a mass wedding organized by Abba Kabir Yusuf, the governor of Kano state, in northern Nigeria.

The regional government described the two-day event as a way to support low-income families and promote social stability.

"The whole idea for the marriage is to help our families and we husbands who are not financially stable to marry; that's why the government is helping us get married," groom Abubakar Aliyu Musa told the Associated Press.

This is the second time Yusuf's administration has organized a mass wedding.

Guyman02:
I have been to Kano severally for work and leisure and also Lagos, many people in Kano are moving to Lagos and you have a lot of almost empty Local government areas and communities in Kano which you can't find in Lagos as everywhere is fully occupied bumper to bumper,
the claim that Kano is more populated than Lagos is just a political statement, this is why politicians from Kano have always resisted biometric census that will expose it's real population which is no where comparable to Lagos.

Empty local government my foot!

Lagos City is populated than Kano City, but kano state is populated than Lagos state, Why?. Not everywhere is part of the cities in both states, there are villages there. For example, kano city comprised 8-9 LGs, so u see u can't compare to Lagos city that has more LGs in it city. But when talking about State, kano is more populated because it remaining 36 LGs have high population which makes the state in general more populated than Lagos.

PigTormentor:
I'm omo Epe Alaro, from main Epe town.

Oooooh. Okay

That's because they count chicken and goats in Kano during the census

Kano is 5 times the size of Lagos by landmass. Lagos is more populated per square kilometer.

Biodun556:
There is no verifiable fact that Kano is populated than Lagos

Imagine jamb saying candidates from imo or Ekiti are more that candidates in Lagos which means they are using state of origin to count instead of residents

Nigerian head count is full of manipulation

I have witnessed situations where FG asked states to summit number of pupils in their schools I saw many less populated states were inflating the figures on their school registers

These are common practices

until govt starts treating all states as equal and stop using population as a yardstick to share revenue this nonsense won't stop. Reason why they keep encouraging childbirth without plan. Our president sef careless about the population stuff. No foreseeable solution in sight

Lagos is far more populated than Kano

emeka2847:
What is the average family size in Lagos?
What is the average age at marriage in Lagos?
What's the total fertility rate of a woman in Lagos?
What is the average number of wives per husband in Lagos?

These are the major determinants of population size.

Illiteracy is a disease. (I weep for Nigeria with posts like this )

CHINA
Average family/household size: 2.52 people (2025).
Average age at first marriage: roughly 28–30 years — typically around 29 for men and 27–30 for women, depending on the dataset and whether it measures first marriage or all marriages.
Total fertility rate: about 1.0 births per woman (2024, UN/World Bank estimate).

In fact, China whose population is about 5 times bigger than Nigeria has small households, relatively late marriage, and very low fertility.

First wipe ur "literate" tears.

Then, learn the science of Demography.
You are quoting Chinese figures that resulted from decades of population control in China, which is why Chinese population has slowed down for decades. Find out why China now rewards families for having kids.

Read! Read! Read!

Read demography - factors that determine population size and growth. Okay?

Learn the factors that make population grow or shrink - they are called vital events. Populations do not grow by magic, Oga Mr Literate.

food4tot:
Illiteracy is a disease. (I weep for Nigeria with posts like this )

CHINA
Average family/household size: 2.52 people (2025).
Average age at first marriage: roughly 28–30 years — typically around 29 for men and 27–30 for women, depending on the dataset and whether it measures first marriage or all marriages.
Total fertility rate: about 1.0 births per woman (2024, UN/World Bank estimate).

In fact, China whose population is about 5 times bigger than Nigeria has small households, relatively late marriage, and very low fertility.