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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TIME photographer Thomas Dworzak explores the cultural divide in the Nigerian capital. Wealthy Nigerians play at Laguna Beach, a popular destination for the affluent. Wealthy Nigerians play at Laguna ...

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