But the Lagos government would prefer that Makoko does not exist ... the population of Nigerians living in informal slums in urban areas has dropped to 50.2 percent from 77.3 percent in 1990.

THE Lagos State Government has announced major progress in modernising land administration and Urban Development through its Enterprise Geographic Information Service (e-GIS), a project led by the ...

Abiding by court rulings which warn against forced eviction. Lagos courts have often ruled against forced evictions, ...

Over the years, LASURA has undertaken several regeneration projects aimed at frontally addressing turning slums into urban and habitable ... Badia and Makoko The Lagos Island Revitalization ...

The Lagos State Urban Renewal Agency has disclosed that 169 slums have been identified in ... Alaba Rago, Obun Eko, Makoko, among others, 49 mapped out, e.g., Mazamaza, Agidingbi, Otunmara ...

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 ...

But the Lagos government would prefer that Makoko does not exist ... the population of Nigerians living in informal slums in urban areas has dropped to 50.2 percent from 77.3 percent in 1990.

Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of "The Herds," a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the ...