Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis

The view from Lekki, a city to the southeast of Lagos, to Victoria Island, which is part of Lagos. Photograph: Valentine Benjamin

Every weekday before dawn, Oluwatobi Ogundipe leaves his small flat in Sango Ota, an industrial town in Ogun state, for a four hour commute to the glass towers of Lagos Island.

Despite working in one of Nigeria’s growing technology sectors, the 32-year-old product manager cannot afford to live any closer to his office.