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Politics● LowSep 25 · Sep 25, 2026, 4:25 AM

Billboard tenants: The invisible Lagosians who sleep, give birth, live in the open

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Vanguard Nigeria · Sub-Saharan Africa

In the restless megacity of Lagos, where skyscrapers rise and traffic never fully sleeps, more than 20,000 residents exist without a permanent roof. They are known, in local parlance, as “billboard tenants.” The name captures a stark reality: people who have no fixed address, no tenancy agreement, and no walls of their own. Instead, they […] The post Billboard tenants: The invisible Lagosians who sleep, give birth, live in the open appeared first on Vanguard News.

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