Class divide: mass demolitions drive poor from valuable land in Lagos

People evicted from islands off Nigerian city say accusations of oil theft are smokescreen to clear land for development

Comfort Obinna sat in the shade of a mango tree she planted 25 years ago, above a sea of broken blocks of concrete.

The rubble covers the compound that used to be her modest home on Tarkwa Bay Beach in Lagos. Now nearly everything the 73-year-old owned, including the space where she farmed her chickens and pigs, has been lost.