Al Jazeera English
| Apr 18, 2013
Nigerian drug lords have been importing South American experts to build the country's first known large-scale methamphetamine labs, Al Jazeera reports. The country has long been a transit hub for illegal drugs but anti-drug agencies say the manufa...
Associated Press
| Dec 26, 2012
A huge explosion at a fireworks factory in Lagos yesterday shook Nigeria's biggest city and sparked a blaze that spread to neighboring buildings. At least one person was killed in the blast and more than a dozen others injured.
CNN
| Dec 14, 2012
Lagos is the first African city to be featured in an edition of the world-famous board game Monopoly. But the achievement isn't all just fun and games, as CNN's Vladimir Duthiers reports.
Associated Press
| Jun 3, 2012
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and many others on the ground in the country's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.
Once a fishing village in Nigeria, Makoko is now a slum over the Lagos lagoon with a population of nearly 100,000 migrant workers.
