Ebikamo Eruwari, a 72-year-old retiree, survived death after his home was demolished in Makoko, a slum waterfront community in Lagos.

A family including baby twins has been forced to live in a wooden canoe after their home in a historic Lagos neighborhood was ...

Anxiety has gripped residents of Makoko, Sogunro and Oko-Agbon communities in Lagos following the conclusion of the assignment of an ad-hoc committee of ...

Victims of the Makoko demolition have urged the Lagos State Government to provide a clear relocation plan as compensation for properties destroyed during the exercise carried out by state agents.The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lagos, Nigeria – Tunde Agando was paddling his way back to Makoko floating settlement in his canoe on a January afternoon, after ...

Coalition for Good Governance in Lagos has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu not to abandon the state government's plan to develop Makoko and ensure evacuation of people living under high tension ...

French Montana is giving back. Montana and Swae Lee, along with music companies gamma. and SALXCO, made a significant donation for 500 wooden canoes to the Makoko community in Lagos, Nigeria, which is ...

The Lagos State Police Command’s State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, is currently detaining two Makoko activists, Caleb Dosungan and Simeon Iroko, following their arrest amid ...

A mother of five, Anna Sobie's wooden home is one of many that has been demolished in a shanty town in a lagoon in Lagos, with critics describing it as a "land-grab" by the authorities to gentrify the ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Victor Ahansu was barely awake with his wife and baby twins before the grinding sound of bulldozers woke them. It was all the warning the family had, he said, before fleeing mass ...