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Calls For A Decent Life for Slum Dwellers in Nigeria

Lawmaker, Lanre Ogunyemi, has called on Nigeria's government to design programmes that will ensure that people living in slums are given a new life. Thousands were left homeless following demolitions earlier this year.
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Makoko community

  • Nigeria:   Fashola - Why We're Intervening in Makoko

    This Day, 5 August 2012

    Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has drawn flaks from some quarters over the recent demolition in Makoko. But when the THISDAY Board of Editors fielded questions with… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Makoko - a Lagos Venice in the Making

    This Day, 5 August 2012

    Unfazed by the outrage that trailed its recent ejection of Makoko waterfront community settlers, Lagos State Government has its sights set on transforming the slum into another… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   NHRC Decries Abuja, Lagos Demolitions

    Daily Trust, 2 August 2012

    The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decried the spate of demolition of settlements in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt, describing it as "arbitrary and unjustifiable… Read more »

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