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Developers Forcibly Evicted 800,000 People in Nigeria

time.com — Some 800,000 residents were forcibly evicted from their homes in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, over a four-year period to make way for development in the fast-growing city, a rights group said Thursday. Many of those removed from their homes between 2003 and 2007 were not given due notice or other usual eviction rights.

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  • 3tcp, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Not developers, the government... then land was given to developers. They've been doing it in China for years and technically the gov't has the power to do it in the US too (eminent domain).
  • alanr19, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1America forcibly evicted ALL indians from their land, Israel forcibly evicted millions of Palestinians from their land 60 years ago,

    800,000? Pffft life goes on.
  • EllieElliott, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1loath as I am to give Time,Inc. any link, I will on this one.
  • suzywang3000, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1well you can't really blame them, can you? would you like to have 800,000 Nigerians in your neck of the woods? Didn't think so...
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