A United Nations (UN) rapporteur said on September 23 that Nigeria is facing a huge housing crisis that has left Africa's most populous country ill-affected to properly house its inhabitants. He also urged to stop forced evictions of entire communities. According to a UN estimation, Nigeria's population is expected to double by 2050 to around 400 million people, which would make it world’s third-largest nation, behind India and China. Leilani Farha, special rapporteur on equate housing said, Nigeria has a lack of equate housing where most of inhabitants live on less than $2 a day despite nation is kwn to be Africa's largest ecomy. She said that Nigeria's housing sector is in a complete crisis. She ded that existing programs will t be successful in dressing ever-growing housing need. She dressed some journalists in capital city of Abuja and revealed that last census was conducted more than a dece ago in 2006. Farah said that re was equate government data to develop an effective housing policy.

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Farha: Thousands of Nigerians including women and children have been evicted from ir homes

She said that informal settlements are mushrooming where conditions are miserable and are most severe she has ever seen in worldwide during end of her ten-day visit in Abuja. rast Nigeria has been affected for last dece by insurgency created by Islamist militant group Boko Haram which has forced over 2 million people to flee ir homes which resulted in housing crisis. She also criticized use of force by state government authorities and property dealers to evict entire communities. This practice is very common in cities, most tably in port city of Lagos, to create for luxurious properties which is unaffordable for majority of inhabitants. Farha said thousands of Nigerians which include women and children h been evicted from ir homes in last few years by people using firearms, arson and arbitrary arrests.

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Nigerian authorities have recently said shanty towns have been wrecked on grounds that y were home to groups of criminal gangs, making m a security risk to rupturing structure guidelines. What's more, state government in Lagos, which pulls in a great many individuals every day looking for work from crosswise over Nigeria and neighboring nations, has more than once prevented reports from claiming fierceness and potential infringement of human rights laws. UN rapporteur said a national commission should be established to investigate human rights violations and it should have capacity to provide compensation.

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