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 ...
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 ...
For more than a century, Makoko—often described as the largest floating slum in Nigeria, home to an estimated 200,000 people ...
As Nigerian cities swell with millions of new residents, the challenge is clear: can the country's urban centres become hubs of opportunities and prosperity, or will they succumb to the same slums and ...
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 — 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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