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 ...

For more than a century, Makoko—often described as the largest floating slum in Nigeria, home to an estimated 200,000 people ...

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 ...

Protesters clashed with police in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday after parts of a large slum built on water, known as Makoko, was demolished. CNN’s Lynda Kinkade reports.

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

As Nigerian cities swell with millions of new residents, the challenge is clear: can the country's urban centres become hubs of opportunities and prosperity, or will they succumb to the same slums and ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen roar through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above the lagoon in the ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria — 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 ...

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 ...