{"id":8465,"date":"2020-03-06T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","slug":"poverty-gap-fuelling-north-south-migration-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/06\/poverty-gap-fuelling-north-south-migration-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Gap Fuelling North-South Migration In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mustapha Abdullahi spent his childhood in constant hunger &#8220;roaming the streets for food&#8221; in his village in northern Nigeria, unsure when his next meal would arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many living in areas where opportunities are scarce, he knew he had to move. When he turned 12 he travelled south to Nigeria&#8217;s commercial megacity, Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I came to Lagos to look for money,&#8221; Abdullahi, now 40, told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with many of the arrivals from the north, he has made his living driving a motorbike taxi locally known as an okada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet a recent ban on okadas across major parts of Lagos has left drivers struggling to feed their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rising migration to Lagos has caused the city&#8217;s population to soar &#8212; spurred by widening inequality between the largely-Muslim north and Christian-majority south. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Poverty-gap-fuelling-north-south-migration-in-Nigeria\/1066-5477562-qa58vhz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Mustapha Abdullahi spent his childhood in constant hunger &#8220;roaming the streets for food&#8221; in his village in northern Nigeria, unsure when his next meal would arrive. Like many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}