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 ...

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

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 ...

LAGOS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over ...

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 ...

Protesters from slum areas in Lagos State tried to enter parliament building to register their opposition to demolition of houses, but police prevented them by firing tear gas and live bullets in air, ...

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 ...