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People are pouring into Lagos. Fast. Some 3,000 people move to the city every day. By some estimates the city grows by a million people a year. But just as Lagos’ population is rising the city is also sinking. Development and reclaiming land from the sea is speeding up coastal erosion, putting the city at serious risk. The same waters that define Lagos are now threatening its very existence.


In her last show as host of The Intelligence our correspondent Ore Ogunbiyi returns home to Lagos to tell the story of a sinking city and meet the government officials, developers and locals trying to survive life at the water’s edge.


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