Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to ...

Experts warn of a deepening Lagos housing crisis, with 145 slums and 66% of residents in informal settlements. Urgent urban ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Nigerian police lob teargas canisters to disperse demonstrators during a protest by residents of Makoko riverine ...

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.

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, ...

Laja Adeoye is president and chief executive officer of Fendini Group, a leading real estate developer and gubernatorial aspirant in ...

It is early January 2026 in Makoko, a waterfront slum in Lagos, when Funmbi, 43, was jolted awake by an unfamiliar noise. At first, she had thought that a fight had broken out between rival youth ...

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 ...

A chieftain of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Showunmi, has told Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to pull down what needs to be pulled down in order to achieve a modern Lagos city ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos. The waterway is "like a ...