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Reign of Forced Evictions and Nigeria's Housing Shortage -By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi – Opinion Nigeria

As an incentive to addressing Abuja physical planning challenge, this piece holds the opinion that the FCT Minister should cast a glance at how a ‘famous’ slum challenge was creatively handled in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, without displacement or eviction of the original occupants. Instead of removing the favelas,- a people initially considered/described as illegal occupants, many of the government’s policies were made to focus more on improving the infrastructure of the people/the area. ....

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