As Nigerian cities swell with millions of new residents, the challenge is clear: can the country's urban centres become hubs of opportunities and prosperity, or will they succumb to the same slums and ...

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 ...

The former CBN deputy governor intends to improve Nigerian slums instead of making more poor people homeless. While speaking at a town hall meeting with presidential candidates on the state of Nigeria ...

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 ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen roar through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above the lagoon in the ...

The lagoon waters at the port entrance to Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital, are usually teeming with small fishing boats. But the bustling waterfront slums of Lagos are now quiet after the navy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Housing and urban development experts have warned that Lagos currently has no fewer than 145 slums, with about 66 per cent of its residents living in informal settlements, raising concerns over a ...