Each collapsed building in Lagos is more than a headline. It is a story of ignored warnings, shoddy practices, regulatory ...

Lagos is the commercial capital of Africa's most populous country, but the booming city is unprepared for the influx of those searching for a better life. Lagos is Nigeria's coastal megacity, and ...

West Africa – especially Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos – becomes the world’s hottest winter party destination in “Detty December,” the festive period between December and early January.

In Lagos, Creative Identity Thrives in Community For the best of Lagos’s creative and rebellious spirit, head to its ‘third places,’ says writer and Lagos native Ayomide Aborowa.

Now an emerging film festival in the city of Lagos, Nigeria's economic center, is trying to change that. NPR's Jewel Bright takes us to meet some of the people behind this effort.

Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos.

At the bustling Yaba Market in Lagos, Nigeria, there is something for everyone. Chatter rises from the traders, whose stalls sprawl over miles of cracked gray concrete and packed earth. They might ...