Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

The coalition of civil society groups described the demolitions as part of a systemic attack on the urban poor, carried out ...

Coalition against demolitions, forced evictions, land grabbing and displacements in Lagos state says 12 persons have died and thousands displaced over the recent demolitions in Makoko, Owode Onirin, ...

Shettima says Tinubu has the capacity to bring his wealth of experience to bear if elected as Nigeria’s president. Kashim Shettima, the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thousands of people were fleeing a Nigeria slum as security forces ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating ...

Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Co. Ltd (SEEPCO) in partnership with Chess in Slum Africa, has organised a ‘Chess Beyond Borders’ event for the children from slums, at Bon Voyage Hotel, ...

The coastal city of Lagos is the largest city in both Nigeria and all of Africa, with a metro area population of 21 million. It is one of only three mega-cities — cities with a population exceeding 10 ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The teeming, floating Makoko slum rises out of the murky lagoon water that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of ...

But conditions here are dire, as the slum remains excluded from urban planning. There is no sewage system, no waste ...

Most evenings, Abigail Hounkpe can be found paddling her wooden canoe on the murky waters in Makoko, a waterfront community on the Lagos lagoon in Nigeria's southwest. She stops in front of a church ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rights groups say thousands of people are fleeing a Nigeria slum as security forces use gunfire and tear gas to make way for demolitions in defiance of a recent court order.