Abstract
Urbanization in Nigeria is described, and on the basis of the population increases an urban hierarchy is suggested, with Lagos on top, growing at a sustained rate four times the national average. The 1967 administrative reorganization of the four regions into twelve states, and the growth as well as the change in the distributional pattern for federal monetary payments to these states, seems to be achieving a decentralized concentration. The rapid rate of urbanization accompanies an extremely high rate of unemployment in the cities. The urban migration is caused by public stimulation of urban activities and neglect of the rural areas. This policyresults in increasing income differentials and an overreaction to economic realities. Thus the rapid rate of urbanization in Nigeria is characteristic of economic growth without development.
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