If World Health Organisation’s definition of slum was to be the basis for defining the communities, then almost all communities in Lagos would be said to be slums.

Chess in Slum, Africa believes every child deserves an equal opportunity in attaining better life and has adopted an innovative approach with the use of the game of chess to empower children from ...

Omolola E. BadmusAcross Nigeria’s rapidly growing cities, informal settlements, home to millions face an unrelenting environmental health crisis. Crowded conditions, limited sanitation, polluted water ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some, the Makoko slum represents an escape from overcrowded neighborhoods and the resilience of life in Lagos, a city of millions where families crowd into one-room apartments and others sleep ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...