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, 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Nigerian police lob teargas canisters to disperse demonstrators during a protest by residents of Makoko riverine ...

Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a ...

We traveled deep into Lagos, Nigeria, to explore Makoko — a floating slum built entirely on water. No roads, no plumbing, and thousands of people surviving in extreme conditions. But beyond the chaos, ...

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 ...

The lagoon waters at the port entrance to Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital, are usually teeming with small fishing boats. But the bustling waterfront slums of Lagos are now quiet after the navy ...

It is early January 2026 in Makoko, a waterfront slum in Lagos, when Funmbi, 43, was jolted awake by an unfamiliar noise. At first, she had thought that a fight had broken out between rival youth ...

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 ...