Creating Wealth from Lagos' increasing population

                                                                                                                                                               Nigerian Market 

The population of Lagos state scares me.

Lagos has a population estimated at 21 million in 2014, which makes it the largest city in Africa and one of the world’s most populous. It surpassed Cairo that once held the title as far back as 2012. And you can bet on it that it will still continue to enjoy tremendous growth.

It’s really intimidating when you compare it with other states and it’s only the ancient city of Kano (with about 10 million people) that even comes anywhere close to seeing its fast fading shadows.  

Even scarier is the fact that there are a larger number of people whose data have not been completely captured by any of the government agencies, which means that millions of people living in and around the Centre of Excellence are not even accounted for.

One thing is certain, whether they are numbered among the populace or not, all Lagosians need to be fed on a daily basis.

Get the picture: every day over 20 million individuals eat at least once before midnight.

Don’t be deceived by relentless promotion of Dangote Noodles on TV and radio stations, Lagosians do eat other foods. 

We don’t discriminate. We consume Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa foods almost in equal measures. We eat yams, garri, wheat, beans, tuwo, fufu and the likes.

We have a wide variety of local dishes and soup that we could afford to go on separate meals every single day of the week for a year straight.

Saboteurs may, as long as they like, continue to import rice and matchsticks but I wonder from which European states they will bring Lagosians Ewedu, Iru, Ugwu, and such that enriches our meals.

Presently, food is being supplied from neighboring states and villages and as far away as Kebbi just to satisfy the growing nutritional needs of the people of Lagos daily.

There are already countless traders of consumables, cash crops and processed foods in the state, so what the state need now is more growers, planters, and producers.  

My point is, we cannot continue to import. And we must start to grow the food we eat in Nigeria. Any farmer or producer that focuses on the Lagos market alone can’t go wrong.

What more? The number of people living in Lagos is expected to triple within the next decade!

There is no better time than now to start planning how to make huge money from ensuring that human beings do what they love doing best: Eat!!!