{"id":89588,"date":"2026-05-24T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89588"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:08:25","slug":"nigeria-people-are-dying-in-this-floating-slum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/24\/nigeria-people-are-dying-in-this-floating-slum\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: People are dying in this floating slum"},"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:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=ONUT.FLk-kppSRyID_AJHUePfKQ&amp;pid=News&amp;w=316&amp;h=200&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hidden inside Lagos, Nigeria is Makoko \u2014 a lawless floating slum where hundreds of thousands of people survive on polluted black water without roads, sewage systems, or reliable electricity.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/people-are-dying-in-this-floating-slum\/vi-AA22Uwpz\"> Read More<\/a><\/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>Hidden inside Lagos, Nigeria is Makoko \u2014 a lawless floating slum where hundreds of thousands of people survive on polluted black water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Makoko.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588","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=89588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89590,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89588\/revisions\/89590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}