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 ...

Lagos is Nigeria's economic powerhouse, but it has some of the worst slums in the country. Lagos slums are characterized by high levels of poverty—the state of not having enough resources to meet ...

Esther Ikechukwu, a beneficiary of Slum2School project attends a virtual class from her home in Makoko, Lagos LAGOS (Reuters) - Outside her home in the Lagos slum of Makoko, Esther Ikechukwu stacks ...

An aerial view of a waterfront slum in Lagos, Nigeria. Shutterstock The Nigerian government has adopted a range of strategies to manage the spread of COVID-19. However, as desirable as the strategies ...

Kashim Shettima, the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Lagos was a slum before Bola Tinubu transformed the state into one of the largest economies in Africa. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ijora- Badia, a Lagos slum, will soon wear a new look as the Lagos State government is set to construct 1,008 modern housing units under a home ownership scheme for the area. Housing Commissioner Mr ...

LAGOS, Nigeria - The Makoko slum floats on the murky lagoon that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of smoke rising from homes built on ...