Inside The Drug Epidemic In Ikeja, Lagos 😳 🇳🇬

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]This is one of the most drug abused parts of Lingos.

[00:00:04]Many people know it for its commercial activity but rarely for its drug problem.

[00:00:10]>> A significant number of people here struggle with drug addiction.

[00:00:14]>> I do stop I do come back even though he went to rehabilitation you see I still come back.

[00:00:19]>> Col to keep you want to be a soldier.

[00:00:24]>> Even not soldier senior defense anyone will carry rifle. I smoke um crack.

[00:00:33]>> Today we are in the capital of Lagos.

[00:00:35]Come with me as I investigate and discover what life is really like as an addict in Lagos, Nigeria.

[00:00:57]Drug abuse has become a major problem in Nigeria. It is an issue that has been growing for years. Yet, it rarely makes the headlines.

[00:01:06]Every day, videos circulate online, people overdosing, some knowingly, others completely unaware of what they've taken. What was once seen as a distant problem has now spread into places you wouldn't even expect.

[00:01:21]Today I am going into the inner streets of EA Lagos away from the main road into the quieter parts of the city areas to meet the people and understand how activities like this continues to grow.

[00:01:48]Get life Hearing about IA, one would hardly expect to see a place like this. A place filled with people whose dreams have slowly being isolated, abandoned, and left to languish.

[00:02:28]Behind these walls are people battling more than addiction. They are fighting hopelessness, trauma, poverty and ash weight of survival.

[00:02:36]>> Colin drug want to change that change to keep you smoke. I know they take drugs. So what would you say is slowing you down? What's slowing me down is just about this drug of everything like addiction of drug.

[00:03:01]That's what is slowing me down.

[00:03:03]>> Okay. Addicted to >> what drug you >> crack.

[00:03:06]>> How long have you been addicted to?

[00:03:08]>> Uh 7 years.

[00:03:10]>> 7 years. When is it taking?

[00:03:13]>> I've smoked today. I've smoked today.

[00:03:16]>> Who introduced you to?

[00:03:18]>> Uh my my guy.

[00:03:19]>> Your guy? 7 years ago. Are you still with the same person?

[00:03:22]>> He's late >> currently for now. I just went to army screening. So since when I was back they have not called me. I don't know whether they have said my results. That is why I'm in street for now.

[00:03:34]>> How do you know that the soldier results?

[00:03:36]>> Uh because I pass I passed everything both medical everything. So my my GF in soldier my IO he told me I should not go for they have said my result. So that's why I'm in street. I cannot see. I cannot I cannot cause trouble. So let me beg Nigeria government let them help my life I want to become a soldier even though it's not soldier c defense immigration anyone so I will carry rifle we Nigeria like this we have a mind to go inside bush and do what is not good keep bandit keep around but based on this country has been a corrupt country without money you can't reach there so anybody looking me online please help me I want to use I want to use of my I I'm in Ka in Kudo. My name is Samuel Auchi.

[00:04:28]>> How old are you?

[00:04:30]>> 30.

[00:04:30]>> 30. Wow. You look young for 30.

[00:04:33]>> That some people say >> looking at you, I would say you >> 18, 16, 15. I know.

[00:04:38]>> Are you addicted to drug?

[00:04:40]>> I'm not addicted, but I smoke, but I'm not addicted.

[00:04:43]>> Which one do you mostly take?

[00:04:45]>> Um, crack.

[00:04:46]>> When was the last time you took crack?

[00:04:48]>> Today.

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[00:06:37]>> I just need money to start business. I get business.

[00:06:40]>> What kind of business? I'll just go buy all those rubber rubber drink for [ __ ] for street >> like inside the rubber >> like simmer eagle a bit start business too much say nobody find me find it like this.

[00:07:20]>> Drug addiction is a very tricky type of addiction. At first it feels like something you just take to temporarily make yourself happy. But over time it begins to change how the brain works.

[00:07:30]Most addictive drugs cause a massive release of dopamine. As time goes on the brain begins to treat the drug as one of the most important things for survival.

[00:07:40]The cravings become stronger than normal decision making. Some people become willing to do almost anything just to survive the addiction. For a few hours, the problems disappear. Confidence rises. Pain feels distance. After a short while, reality returns, often worse than before, creating a painful circle. And so they go back to it again and again.

[00:08:04]I do stop. I do come back. If I said that I want to stop, I will stop. But I said I don't want to. I won't.

[00:08:09]>> It's a decision. That means you don't want to stop.

[00:08:12]>> I want to stop now. I've stopped. I've come back. It's something you cannot just like just stop. Just just stop like that. Why? Like that. Even though you went to rehabilitation, you see I still come and continue.

[00:08:21]>> Would you want to go to rehab?

[00:08:22]>> I don't want to. And I will not.

[00:08:24]>> My house is my rehab.

[00:08:25]>> Why? Why? Why do you think so?

[00:08:26]>> Cuz if I go there, I will still come back here. So there's no excess of going to the rehab.

[00:08:31]>> How would you know when you've not found out? If not, you don't know if you are going to be rehabilitated. If you go to rehab.

[00:08:36]>> Yeah. I don't chill out on my own. I never been to re rehabilitation or something. I chill out on my own on the norms.

[00:08:43]>> Are you sober now?

[00:08:45]>> I'm just in back now.

[00:08:47]>> Do you ever plan on stopping?

[00:08:48]>> Definitely.

[00:08:50]>> What do you think is going to register?

[00:08:52]>> Um if I decide actually I can decide right now that to stop but I can I stayed like 3 years when I travel to Ghana. Maybe say if you take one if you if you buy 500 if you take if you take 30 minutes 40 minutes time don't for your eye if you don't get money if you get money you must buy some for 1 hour if you know you smoke and work if you born almost like born 3k we born 4k born 5k that's per hour like 3 hours you understand so it come depends as you you okay with you But now that one head up and down head up and down game at all game make this like this but thank God they won't kill us. Which one you take?

[00:09:46]I come through come across say I regret my life for my make me as an artist I don't even want my power but you say you understand it's so you believe and you as a man give you no try at all cuz if you try for that first day you be control If you don't come out when I take I want die this one.

[00:10:26]Addiction does not only destroy the body. It slowly disconnects people from their dreams, families and even themselves. In a country where making ends meet has become a daily struggle, many people turn to temporary comfort just to forget the ash reality.

[00:10:41]>> I want to be a pilot. Everything come make you become pilot.

[00:10:47]>> Say things far, things go far. Things go far. No bad. No anything. No anything to carry on.

[00:10:56]>> Every addict has a story that many people never gets to hear. A story of pain, loss, pressure, trauma, or simply the desperate need to escape reality.

[00:11:06]>> The thing that happened to me before, I will never forget my life. E the day where I b my I don't go forget for my life.

[00:11:13]>> You mean the pain?

[00:11:15]>> Yes. Do >> you have any regrets?

[00:11:17]>> Getting pregnant for my baby father.

[00:11:19]That's the worst thing that I regret ever. He's an irresponsible man. Sorry to say. Wherever he is, let him know he's an irresponsible man.

[00:11:26]>> You've not seen him since then?

[00:11:27]>> Yeah.

[00:11:28]>> At what age were you?

[00:11:29]>> 18 years.

[00:11:30]>> 18 years.

[00:11:31]>> That means your child is 12 years old now.

[00:11:34]>> Yes. I gave birth to twins, two boys.

[00:11:37]That was my parents at Badagu.

[00:11:39]>> Sometimes inside the pain are people who once had ambitions, families, talents and futures they genuinely believed in.

[00:11:47]>> So wait for people for people inside life. What you don't know about follow understand the matter. You never chop her. You never chop her before they say take. You know it must you chop her.

[00:12:02]Must it must you even feel from feeling some people feel take their life. You understand smoke because drug kill for them everything. Anybody drugh you say me God escape me. I know how many I know how many I me one of the one way life they don't die they love the senior ones the parent because the eye of the parent don't see the parent the one they see the future >> start of drug listen to their parents They should don't follow bad friends cuz bad bad friend that that lead me to what I'm into now. That's what I can just said to them.

[00:13:01]>> The real question is not only how they got here but whether society is willing to help them find a way back.

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