Most evenings, Abigail Hounkpe can be found paddling her wooden canoe on the murky waters in Makoko, a waterfront community on the Lagos lagoon in Nigeria's southwest. She stops in front of a church ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seated outside her home in Makoko, a low-income community in Lagos, Nigeria's bustling megacity, Margaret Okpoe is tapping away on her new tablet. The 14-year-old is trying to connect to a virtual ...

Temilade’s story began like that of many children in Makoko, facing daily challenges yet fueled by dreams of a brighter future. Introduced to the sport of fencing by a dedicated primary school teacher ...

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 ...

The headquarters of RCCG is adjacent to Makoko slum along the Lagos lagoon front. The poverty there is dead end rock bottom. Daddy Freeze said the Church should pay tithes to the poor in the slums, ...

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 ...