The Lagos state government says some structures built beneath high-tension power lines pose a serious safety risk. But the ...

LAGOS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over ...

More than 1,000 Makoko residents and displaced families marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly to protest ongoing demolition work in their ...

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 ...

A family including baby twins has been forced to live in a wooden canoe after their home in a historic Lagos neighborhood was ...

Nigerian police ‍fired tear gas to ​disperse residents protesting in Lagos on January 28 over demolition work in ⁠one of Africa's largest floating slums, the Makoko slum, that has displaced thousands ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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.