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 ...

Following the recent fencing off of the Challenge Trade Area, the Kwara State chapter of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ...

President of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN), Professor Ekanem Ekure, in this interview with SADE OGUNTOLA, says ...

Despite decades of initiatives and promises from the government and private sector, affordable housing remains a mirage.

It is intriguing to see how a Nigerian, Ebubechukwu Uba, a Doctoral student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ...

Analysis - Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation.

Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by Covid-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation. 2024 ...

The first residents of the slum, predominantly fishermen, were living on the mainland. But the need to be closer to the source of their livelihood forced them to move closer to the Lagos Lagoon in ...

Aside from leading the continent in entertainment, movie and music, Nigeria is also leading in visual art, as a good ...

Delhi L-G VK Saxena accused Arvind Kejriwal of lying and misleading people With the Delhi election weeks away, the ruling AAP and Opposition BJP are going all out to woo voters in urban slums -- a ...

The almost three lakh households in Delhi’s 675 slums and 1,700 jhuggi-jhopri (JJ) clusters, or unauthorised colonies, make up almost 10% of the electorate and, as a result of their sheer size, form ...

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