Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Co. Ltd (SEEPCO) in partnership with Chess in Slum Africa, has organised a ‘Chess Beyond Borders’ event for the children from slums, at Bon Voyage Hotel, ...

Residents of the Precious Seed waterfront community in Oworonshoki have accused the Lagos State Government of carrying out a ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. There are over 100 slum and squatter settlements in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos. We visited ...

Overcrowding is one reason slums are known incubators of disease. Informal settlements are typically 10 times denser than neighboring areas of the same city. The Dharavi slum in central Mumbai, for ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rights groups say thousands of people are fleeing a Nigeria slum as security forces use gunfire and tear gas to make way for demolitions in defiance of a recent court order.

LAGOS, Nigeria - The Makoko slum floats on the murky lagoon that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of smoke rising from homes built on ...

Slum from the perspective of the United Nations is when a household with a group of individuals lives under the same roof with one or more of the following conditions; access to improved water, access ...

LAGOS, Nigeria, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Having fled as her home and shanty town in Lagos burned to the ground, Roseline Alphonse does not know if she will ever see her husband again, or ...

LAGOS, May 6 (Reuters) - A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighbourhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move ...

A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighborhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces on the board as ...