{"id":83596,"date":"2026-01-15T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83596"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:18:13","slug":"makoko-demolitions-leave-thousands-homeless-as-lagos-clears-waterfront-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/15\/makoko-demolitions-leave-thousands-homeless-as-lagos-clears-waterfront-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Makoko demolitions leave thousands homeless as Lagos clears waterfront settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UgG7L.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Cleared\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Residents of Makoko, one of Lagos\u2019 oldest fishing communities, are struggling to survive after the Lagos State government demolished parts of the densely populated waterfront settlement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/makoko-demolitions-leave-thousands-homeless-as-lagos-clears-waterfront-settlement\/ar-AA1Ugxa0?ocid=BingNewsVerp\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Residents of Makoko, one of Lagos\u2019 oldest fishing communities, are struggling to survive after the Lagos State government demolished parts of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Makoko-demolished.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83598,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83596\/revisions\/83598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}