Despair as Lagos neighbourhood razed for planned highway

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Ebuka Gbuzue pulled everything he could from his family's small home in Lagos before demolition crews came to destroy it.

Ebuka Gbuzue pulled everything he could from his family's small home in Lagos before demolition crews came to destroy it.

But he slept near the wreckage of his house that night because he couldn’t afford to pay more for his commute to work the next day.The 10-lane, 700-kilometre highway will link Lagos with the city of Calabar in the far east of Nigeria. Nine months pregnant and about to give birth, she said she had no choice but to spend the night on the street.“We will sleep here tonight, there is nothing else to do,” said Peter Nwakpa Chinedu, standing next to the digger that had just flattened the house where he lived with 10 members of his family.

Since Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to power and brought in reforms last year, Nigeria has plunged deep into an economic crisis. Nigeria’s public debt stock as at Dec. 31, 2023 was N97. 341 trillion , according to data released by the Debt Management Office on Friday in Abuja.

 

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