Makoko is cleared again, and the legislature stops it
Lagos State demolition teams removed more than three thousand structures at Makoko from late December 2025, with UN figures reported at the time putting displacement above forty thousand people. The state cited proximity to a power line; residents and advocates described clearance for waterfront redevelopment. The Lagos State House of Assembly ordered the operation halted in February 2026.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Makoko · site · Nigeria
- Lagos · city · Nigeria
- Land tenure security · phenomenon · Global · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Reporting on the 2025–2026 Makoko demolitions
Supports the account of demolitions at Makoko from late December 2025, the removal of more than three thousand structures, UN-attributed displacement figures above forty thousand, the Lagos State government's stated power-line rationale, residents' contrary account, and the Lagos State House of Assembly halting the operation in February 2026. V55 verification basis: contemporaneous journalism, retrieved in summary; no UN or state government document was retrieved, and the population and displacement figures remain disputed.
Al Jazeera; Channels Television; Bloomberg · 2026-02 · Partly verified
Al Jazeera, "'Colonial-era classism': Residents decry demolitions in Nigeria's Makoko" (12 February 2026); Channels Television and Bloomberg reporting, January 2026
Recorded on Makoko
- Nigeria conducts its most recent census
- Construction starts on the Lagos Blue Line
- Lagos State demolishes part of Makoko
- Nigeria's census is postponed again
- The Lagos Blue Line carries its first passengers
- Makoko is cleared again, and the legislature stops it
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