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

Makoko, often described as a floating slum, has existed for decades and is home to tens of thousands of people who depend ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Civil society organisations (CSOs) have joined forces with residents of informal settlements to fault the Lagos State ...

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 ...

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, ...

The headquarters of RCCG is adjacent to Makoko slum along the Lagos lagoon front. The poverty there is dead end rock bottom. Daddy Freeze said the Church should pay tithes to the poor in the slums, ...

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 ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria — 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 ...