The human rights group Amnesty International says Julius' story is just one of more than 30,000 people who were evicted last year from their waterfront homes in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, by the local authorities. Eyewitnesses say it was nearly midnight when residents of Otodo Gbame were woken by gunfire. But the eviction in Otodo Gbame wasn't the last. Not far from Otodo Gbame, in the upmarket Ikoyi area, the sun beats down on the concrete shell of a four-bedroom house that is being redeveloped for Nigeria's moneyed elite. The state government claims Otodo Gbame is a recent, temporary settlement.

Source: CBC News November 19, 2017 16:12 UTC