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 ...
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 ...
For more than a century, Makoko—often described as the largest floating slum in Nigeria, home to an estimated 200,000 people ...
The Lagos state government says some structures built beneath high-tension power lines pose a serious safety risk. But the scale of demolitions has left thousands of residents displaced and families ...
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 ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – In the waterfront slum of Makoko in Nigeria’s largest city where shacks stand above the murky, fetid water on stilts of cast-aside lumber, an architect thinks the neighborhood ...
The lagoon waters at the port entrance to Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital, are usually teeming with small fishing boats. The bustling waterfront slums of Lagos are now quiet after the army evicted ...
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 (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 ...
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