Call it a pathetic life in the day of two Lagos slums – and you will be absolutely right to describe the revealing trip as one. But the journey took off on a rather dour note. That was on Monday April ...

Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Co. Ltd (SEEPCO) in partnership with Chess in Slum Africa, has organised a ‘Chess Beyond Borders’ event for the children from slums, at Bon Voyage Hotel, ...

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) – In the waterfront slum of Makoko in Nigeria’s largest city where shacks stand above the murky, fetid water on stilts of cast-aside lumber, an architect thinks the neighborhood ...

Chess in Slums Africa is a social development initiative that helps children find life changing opportunities by teaching and unlocking the potential in every child, using chess educational resources ...

The budding partnership between Medplus Pharmacy and Chess in Slums kicked off in February with a Valentine’s Day campaign when the pharmaceutical organization reached out to the NGO with an offer to ...

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 ...

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 ...