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Spotlight on Lagos poverty crisis

Updated on 12 February 2008

By Keme Nzerem

We have report from Lagos in Nigeria on how the city's spiralling population has increased the numbers living in slums.

Formerly the capital of Nigeria, Lagos's uncontrolled population growth has made one of the world's largest cities one of the world's largest slums.

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