Mass evictions in Lagos displace thousands including baby twins now living in a canoe

Victor Ahansu was barely awake with his wife and baby twins before the grinding sound of bulldozers woke them. It was all the ...
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Protests in Nigeria over demolition of Makoko — the 'Venice of Africa'

Last week, police in Nigeria’s largest city fired tear gas on people protesting the ongoing demolition of Makoko, an enormous informal settlement that stretches out into the Lagos Lagoon. With an ...
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Protesters in Nigeria disrupt opening of major West African art museum

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week's opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them ...
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Thousands of people in Lagos, Nigeria, have had homes abruptly seized and destroyed

Over the past month, close to 10,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos. Now, mass evictions are a recurring story in Africa's most ...
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Africa's megacity of Lagos reshapes its coast by dredging and puts environment at risk

LAGOS, Nigeria — Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s ...