'I came to Lagos to look for money.'
Motorcycle taxis, locally known as an okada, queue for passengers in Lagos. A poverty gap and widening inequality between the largely-Muslim north and Christian-majority south has caused a north-south migration in Nigeria.Mustapha Abdullahi spent his childhood in constant hunger"roaming the streets for food" in his village in northern Nigeria, unsure when his next meal would arrive.
According to the World Bank, 87 million people in Africa's most populous country live in extreme poverty -- of which 87 per cent live in northern Nigeria."Regionally, the north lags far behind the south in every human capital outcome," a 2019 World Bank report said. Yet after a collapse in local industry in the 1990s, there are now fewer than 100 factories, and widespread unemployment after hundreds of thousands of job losses.
Recent data is not available, but a 2010 study from Nigeria's National Population Commission estimated 23 percent of the population were"migrants" and 40 percent of those living in Lagos came from other regions.
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