Nigeria's homeless: Sleeping under a Lagos bridge for 30 years
Liya’u Sa’adu cannot afford to rent a shack, let alone a room - like some 500,000 others in Nigeria’s main city.
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More than 60 men now live in the tightly knit outdoor community - with the busy and noisy Obalende Bridge over them - as renting even a shack has proved unaffordable for them.
Mr Sa’adu advises the newcomers - often young people from far-away towns and villages - on how to be streetwise in fast-paced Lagos, where it is easy to fall into crime and drugs.
“I am 60 and there are young people who came here a few months ago or a few years ago. I see it as my responsibility to guide them,” he tells the BBC.
“It is so easy to lose track here in Lagos, especially for young people because there is no family to watch their steps.”
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