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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christians struggle to help displaced residents find shelter. Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a century-old fishing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...