By 2050, Nigeria will have twice the population it has today and will overtake the US to become the world’s third most populated country, behind China and India, reports the BBC. Every week thousands of people from the country’s rural areas arrive in Lagos looking for work and a place to live.

City planners are starting to look skywards and are building tower blocks and reclaiming land from the sea for ambitious new developments, to fuel the economy and hopefully solve its chronic overcrowding problems. However, local building contractors have been accused of cutting corners during the rush to create more homes, with a building collapsing once every two weeks, on average, in the city in 2024.

Lagos has seen at least 90 buildings falling down in the last 12 years, leaving more than 350 people dead, according to the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.

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