LAGOS, Nigeria -- Along the eastern outskirts of the Lagos mainland neighborhood of Ebute-Metta, an unassuming road hidden between two rows of warehouses winds past dilapidated red-and-yellow ...

Nigeria: Urban Slums in Lagos 'Mega City' allAfrica. Construction of the Addis Ababa light railway track continues, and is expected to be completed in 2014. 11 January 2014. Vanguard (Lagos) ...

Lagos, Nigeria, is a city of extremes. On one end is Eko Atlantic, a multibillion-dollar luxury island being reclaimed from the sea. It’s not done yet, but developers claim it will be Africa's Dubai.

Analysis - 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.

But the Lagos government would prefer that Makoko does not exist. In 2012, the Lagos state government announced plans to demolish the slum and gave a 72-hour eviction notice to the residents.

Associated Press. 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 ...

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 . Wednesday, May 28 66°F / Cape Girardeau.

Babatunde Onakoya, 26, founded Chess in Slums Africa in 2018 after chess aided his rise from his own deprived childhood in Lagos. Primary Menu Sections. ... Lagos, Nigeria May 5, 2021.

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 ...

Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of "The Herds," a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the ...

They hope the cunning and strategy they learn on the chess board will help them make the leap out of their homes in the slum. Sign up here. ... Lagos, Nigeria May 5, 2021.

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 ...