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

Rents skyrocket in Abuja due inflation, housing crunch Many residents forced to move to slums to cut costs Influx drives out poorest residents, fuels overcrowding ABUJA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters ...

Lafia — The Nassarawa state government is planning to demolish unplanned housing that has grown up around its border with the federal capital territory, the governor announced yesterday. Alhaji Aliyu ...

On a breezy morning at the height of the dry season six months ago, Rifkatu Andruwus and her children were chatting in front of their house in a displacement camp in the heart of Nigeria’s capital.

An Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) Network in partnership with the University of Lagos and other organisations has launched a three-year project to develop a data-sharing ecosystem ...

It was christened by migrants from one of the biggest slums in the country who moved into the nation's capital seeking better economic prospects. It is located in a grimy slum on the fringes of ...

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The Fed eral Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has issued a week notice to hundreds of squatters taking refuge under bridges in Garki, Wuse II, Maitama and Wuse Districts of Abuja, to ...

Using data from the World Bank and the Participatory Slum Upgrading Program (PSUP) by the UN-Habitat, here are the top 10 countries with the highest slum population: The United Nations Human ...