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Mukthar Oladunmade, a 27-year-old writer, plays in the water at Takwa Bay beach in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A beach break in Nigeria’s Lagos is becoming too expensive for many

The beaches in Nigeria’s megacity of Lagos are rare public spaces to escape the crowds and heat, but many residents say they are being priced out as the local government opens up more coastal land to developers.

Nigerian nationals repatriated from South Africa, following concerns about unrest, reacts upon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

First group of Nigerians returns home after anti-immigration protests in South Africa

FILE -A worker carries out confiscated drugs from a warehouse in Lagos, Nigeria, Jan.15, 2003. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Nigeria’s anti-drug agency shut down large meth laboratory in a raid

People dressed in costumes perform on the street during the Fanti Carnival in Lagos Nigeria, Monday, April 6, 2026, (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Thousands flood Lagos’ vibrant Fanti Carnival to celebrate Afro-Brazilian heritage

People dance to house music during a Group Therapy rave in Lekki, an upscale part of Lagos, Nigeria, early Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A Lagos rave rewrites the rules of nightlife

Lagos street boxing clubs give young fighters a shot at discipline and opportunity

In a roadside corner of Lagos, the sound of gloves hitting punch bags mixed with the noise of passing vehicles as street boxing clubs gave young fighters a shot at discipline and opportunity. With limited access to formal training facilities, prospective fighters trained with homemade equipment. (AP video shot by: Dan Ikpoyi)

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Nigerian rock musician Bianca "Clayrocksu" Okorocha, accompanied by Daniel Onyemachi-Chiweolu, popularly known as Machigold, hugs a woman after giving her a single-stem rose and crooning love songs ahead of Valentine's Day in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Feb.10, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian rock artist wants people to pause and feel loved in the hustle and bustle of Lagos

Sope Dirisu, star of the film "My Father's Shadow" poses with director Akinola Davies Jr. at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

In ‘My Father’s Shadow,’ family memory and Nigerian history are resurrected

Josianua Agbokpasu poses with her twins at their demolished stilts house in Makoko Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, Jan.30, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Mass evictions in Lagos displace thousands including baby twins now living in a canoe

Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, the driver in a car crash that injured former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria, leaves after a hearing at the magistrates court, in Sagamu, south west Nigeria, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Anthony Joshua’s driver arraigned after deadly crash in southwest Nigeria

Worker shovels up freshly extracted sharp sand from a dredging transporter in Ibeshe, Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Grace Ekpu)

Africa’s megacity of Lagos reshapes its coast by dredging and puts environment at risk

In this photo provided by the Federal Road Safety Corps, people gather at the accident scene of British boxer Anthony Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Federal Road Safety Corps via AP)

Anthony Joshua’s driver charged after deadly crash in Nigeria

Anthony Joshua stands on stage during a face-off against Jake Paul at a news conference promoting their upcoming heavyweight boxing match, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

British boxer Anthony Joshua initially staying in Nigeria to recuperate after crash

Anthony Joshua stands on stage during a face-off against Jake Paul at a news conference promoting their upcoming heavyweight boxing match, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Nigerian authorities say British boxer Anthony Joshua released from hospital after road crash

In this photo provided by the Federal Road Safety Corps, people gather at the accident scene of British boxer Anthony Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Federal Road Safety Corps via AP)

Concerns over roads in Nigeria after crash that injured Anthony Joshua and killed 2 associates

In this photo provided by the Federal Road Safety Corps, people gather at the accident scene of British boxer Anthony Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Federal Road Safety Corps via AP)

Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is ‘stable’ after 2 die in car accident in Nigeria

Nigeria will work with US and UK to investigate cocaine cartel, anti-narcotics agency says

The Dangote oil refinery sits in Lagos, Nigeria, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Nigerian billionaire plans expansion of Africa’s biggest oil refinery

Wildlife conservationist Chinedu Mogbo, center, release an endangered sea turtle, that was rescued from fishermen, into the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Conservation group rescues sea turtles caught in nets at Nigerian coastal city and rewards fishermen

Oil installations at the Dangote refinery during the opening ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Nigerian government to meet oil workers’ union after strike halts nationwide supply

Omoh Alokwe, co-founder of Street Waste Company, told The Associated Press, the increasing plastic waste is partly due to population pressure in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

One of the world’s most polluted cities has banned single-use plastics. It’s not so easy

Nigerian customs seize over 1,600 parrots and canaries in major wildlife trafficking bust

People interact using sign language during a church service at the Christian Mission for the Deaf in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

‘God understands us': Inside a Nigerian church where deaf people find faith and community

People dance to celebrate Democracy day on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian leader denies one-party plan after he’s accused of clamping down on opposition

Director Akinola Davies Jr. poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'My Father's Shadow' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 19, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Cannes standout ‘My Father’s Shadow’ marks a historic first for Nigeria

Swimming coach Emeka Chuks Nnadi teaches a disabled student to swim as part of his Swim in 1 Day, or SID, nonprofit, in a pool at the Pacelli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A swimming coach in Nigeria provides inspiration and life lessons to disabled people

Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of "The Herds," a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Arctic Circle in a bid to bring attention to the climate crisis. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

In Nigeria’s floating slum, ‘The Herds’ tour spotlights climate change where it’s felt the most

Airstrike on insurgents mistakenly killed 10 civilians, Nigerian military says

FILE - Nigeria Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja salutes during a funeral ceremony for officers in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

Nigeria’s army chief, who led the country through one of Africa’s longest conflicts, dies at 56

Olaribigbe Akeem, wearing protective gear, uses a sledgehammer to break a television set to vent his anger inside the Shadow Rage Room in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

How do you deal with stress? In Nigeria, swinging a sledgehammer in a ‘rage room’ helps

Prince Harry, center, plays basketball with children during the Giant of Africa Foundation at the Dream Big Basketball clinic in Lagos Nigeria, Sunday, May 12, 2024. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which Prince Harry founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria’s fashion and dancing styles are in the spotlight as Harry and Meghan visit Lagos

This undated photo made available by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism shows Daniel Ojukwu in Lagos, Nigeria. The Nigerian journalist's arrest last week has triggered criticism of worsening press freedoms in the West African country. Daniel Ojukwu with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism went missing Wednesday May 1, 2024, in the economic hub of Lagos. His family and employer found out on Friday that he was detained and held in a police station for allegedly violating the country's Cybercrime Act, (Foundation for Investigative Journalism via AP)

Nigerian journalist’s arrest last week triggers criticism of worsening press freedoms

Funmilayo Kotun, 66-years-old, a malaria patient is photographed in her one room in Makoko neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, April 20, 2024. When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving the threat, or broadening the range, of some diseases. But across the African continent malaria has never left.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left

Amina Ali, one of the Chibok schoolgirls who was kidnapped in 2014 by Islamic extremists and later escaped, attends a 10th anniversary event of the abduction in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, April 4, 2024. A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school in the country’s northeast. At least 276 girls were kidnapped during the April 2014 attack that stunned the world, but most have since regained their freedom. (AP Photo/Mansur Ibrahim )

A film in Nigeria remembers the Chibok girls abducted 10 years ago, and unites heartbroken families

Brightly colored eggs are set on a table on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 18, 2022, during the White House Easter Egg Roll. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

What’s keeping egg prices high for Easter? It’s not just inflation

A prosthetist molds a cast for Princess Igbinosa, 10, who lost her leg following a traffic accident in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Princess can now walk, thanks to an artificial limb from the IREDE Foundation, a group providing children like her with free prosthetics and helping their families offset the average cost of $2,000 to $3,000. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to amputee children thanks to crowdfunding

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