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.

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 ...

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. Several hundred thousand ...

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 ...

Slum from the perspective of the United Nations is when a household with a group of individuals lives under the same roof with one or more of the following conditions; access to improved water, access ...

LAGOS, March 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The demolition of homes in a shanty town in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, in defiance of a court order, has left thousands of people homeless and ...

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 ...

A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Otunba Segun Showunmi, on Wednesday hailed the developmental strides recorded in the last six years’ administration of Lagos State Governor, ...

Call it a pathetic life in the day of two Lagos slums – and you will be absolutely right to describe the revealing trip as one. But the journey took off on a rather dour note. That was on Monday April ...

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe works for Crawford University, Ogun State, Nigeria. Social exclusion means being excluded from participating wholly in the society, often as a result of belonging to a ...

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 ...