Slum from the perspective of the United Nations is when a household with a group of individuals lives under the same roof with one or more of the following conditions; access to improved water, access ...

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe works for Crawford University, Ogun State, Nigeria. Social exclusion means being excluded from participating wholly in the society, often as a result of belonging to a ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighbourhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces ...

Across Nigeria’s rapidly growing cities, informal settlements, home to millions face an unrelenting environmental health crisis. Crowded conditions, limited sanitation, polluted water, and poor waste ...

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - When Nigerian driver Ossy Okafor gets in his beat-up minibus and begins another battle on the congested roads of Lagos, he sees everything wrong with Africa's biggest economy. By 7 a ...