🌍 Africa Jun 11, 2026 · Fabienne Hoelzel

What Lagos planned for Precious Seeds

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What Lagos planned for Precious Seeds
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In December 2025, Lagos State bulldozers tore down Precious Seeds, a waterfront settlement in Oworonshoki. Esther Udoh had been driven out of the same site once before, by a fire in 2010. She returned in 2013 and built again: small payments for land, then materials, then walls, then a roof, until what she had built was worth perhaps a hundred million naira. The state took it down. She is now in Agbado, rebuilding. Five months after the demolition, at the Joint Closing of the Assemblies at the Wo

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