Some 30,000 residents of the Nigerian megacity Lagos have become homeless because of state-ordered demolitions and fighting between rival communities, residents and a rights group said on Thursday.

The violence highlights the challenges of a rapidly rising population unable to provide enough jobs and housing for its 180 million people. Many end up trying to migrate to Europe by boat from lawless Libya.

Africa’s largest economy is in recession as oil revenues have fallen and hard currency reserves dwindled, forcing the closure of plants unable to import raw materials. Every day, thousands head to Lagos, the commercial capital, seeking work in a city of 23 million.

A spokeswoman for Lagos police said officers had arrested several people for setting fire to makeshift houses in the affluent Lekki island district. She denied claims by a Lagos-based rights group, the Justice and Empowerment Initiatives (JEI), that the police had destroyed buildings.

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/11/11/state-ordered-demolitions-leave-30000-people-homeless-nigerian-megacity/

On top of this recession?


But wait o, what's so special about this first to comment thing sef? This is about my seventh this year yet I don't feel anything.

So sad

Very soon, people will start going back to their family house or village in their various States...

Same thing el rufai did that later ruined his life

30,000 in this recession period

Most of these people have a roof on top of their head and even landlords and we're able to eat three square meals in their villages before they came to Lagos . I really don't understand its not compulsory to live in Lagos.

They go soon adapt na change plus development be dat.

If the demolition is legal and help promote the status of Lagos as a mega city ..the govt have my blessing

Some people are better off living and working in their home states but insists on living in Lagos.

Local deportation version of trump don they happen for naija.

This is long due, over population might wreck the cities infrastructure.

Some people needs to go back to village and fix themselves properly

All those change chanting agberos have been rendered homeless

I stand with Ambode

4nobody4every1:
Na wao, l wonder why successive government both military & civilians have not been able to address the basic needs of the populace which is food, shelter and security and yet billions are budgeted yearly by both incoming and out-going government, no wonder Trump says Africa should be re-colonized again (especially Nigeria), seeing pictures like this make me agree with Donald Trump, what a shame to all the criminals we have in government from 1960 till date, nonsense, and yet one fat pig is having 15million US dollars and another 175 million dollars traced to her and yet we see so many people supporting the same wicked leaders that has kept them impoverished , what an irony

Good grammar but no sense

You must be sick of selective comprehension

Are you referring to Ambode the destroyer as the fat pig

Handsomecole:
Most of these people have a roof on top of their head and even landlords and we're able to eat three square meals in their villages before they came to Lagos . I really don't understand its not compulsory to live in Lagos.

have you been to your village recently.. i mean lived there for a month.. i know there aresome rich villages in the east but most are debilitated with grinding poverty.. it is worse

Government

Haaaaaaaaaaaa

The keyword is compensation, not that the demolition is in itself wrong. Land belongs to the government, and in most cases these people are just squatting on the land without proper purchase. Which is one reason why government may at times find it hard to compensate.

NaijaMutant:

Good grammar but no sense

You must be sick of selective comprehension

Are you referring to Ambode the destroyer as the fat pig

Patience Jonathan... So recolonize again and leaders that has mean good grammar to you. You comprehension ability is top notch.

elfmann:

Patience Jonathan... So recolonize again and leaders that has mean good grammar to you. You comprehension ability is top notch.

And what is the connection between Patience Jonathan and Ambode destroying Lagos shanties

You are even worse

all Na change

Ok

The state ought to have a plan of housing this people b4 rendering them homeless. Rendering people home at this recession period is nothing to smile about. The govt must do something about this fast.

jonaquincy:
Same thing el rufai did that later ruined his life

Ruin? Maybe you don't know that he's currently the governor of Kaduna state

NaijaMutant:

Good grammar but no sense

You must be sick of selective comprehension

Are you referring to Ambode the destroyer as the fat pig

No, he's was actually referring to your goddess patient jolantern

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NaijaMutant:

Good grammar but no sense

You must be sick of selective comprehension

Are you referring to Ambode the destroyer as the fat pig

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tyav7:
On top of this recession?


But wait o, what's so special about this first to comment thing sef? This is about my seventh this year yet I don't feel anything.

Your reward isn't here on earth bro

It is in heaven

So says lala

THEY SHOULD ALL GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND ENGAGE IN FARMING

habsydiamond:
The state ought to have a plan of housing this people b4 rendering them homeless. Rendering people home at this recession period is nothing to smile about. The govt must do something about this fast.

Then you encourage more people to go to lagos