Lagos. From above, the Oko-Agbon neighbourhood, in the infamous Makoko floating slum, looks almost picturesque. Little wooden shacks on stilts sit on top of dark water. Residents move from one to ...

Cancel anytime. Fire spread through parts of the floating Makoko slum, in the neighborhood of Ebute-Metta in Lagos, Nigeria, on February 19.Local reports said the fire razed homes and structures ...

It’s about progress! Forget politics!” Fisherman Monday Enikanoselu, 16, was born and lives in Makoko, a slum in Lagos Lagoon that began as a fishing village of shacks on stilts. He wears ...

The heavy rain that lasted hours in the Yaba area of Lagos on Saturday has caused flooding in the Makoko community as residents called on the government for urgent intervention. The residents ...

Four-year-old Hazeem, vanished during the chaos that engulfed Oke Baba, a slum in Ebute Metta, Lagos, during a recent state ...

Lagos Island is one of the world’s fastest ... Even in low-income communities like Makoko that are built on reclaimed wetlands, the risk of being submerged is even greater since the buildings ...

Lagos' floating theatre Residents of Lagos' Makoko slum watch famous actresses perform alongside novices picked from the neighbourhood in this play about gender equality. The set features a ...

In February 2024, it partnered with Tunde Onakoya’s Chess in Slums Africa for its 6th medical outreach in Makoko, a slummy area of Lagos, where over 400 children were treated. Helpster Charity ...

The tall 17-year-old girl with a friendly face is from Lagos, Nigeria—specifically its infamous Makoko slum, where shacks built on stilts sit above dark, pungent water. Her father is a fisherman, and ...

He had won accolades for his work with the children in the slum of Makoko. Through him ... Tunde had cause to drive through Osodi in Lagos, sometime in July 2021. Here are his thoughts, as ...

Temilade’s story began like that of many children in Makoko, facing daily challenges ... by THISDAY NEWSPAPERS LTD., 35 Creek Road Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria with offices in 36 states of Nigeria ...

Lagos' floating theatre Residents of Lagos' Makoko slum watch famous actresses perform alongside novices picked from the neighbourhood in this play about gender equality. The set features a ...