Who Will Save Nigeria’s Coastal City on the Brink of Extinction?

A welcome sign harks back to a more prosperous time. Credit: Promise Eze/IPS

By Promise Eze
AYETORO, Nigeria, Jan 2 2025 (IPS)

In 2021, Ojajuni Olufunsho, a 53-year-old resident of Ayetoro, a town along the Atlantic coast, southwestern Nigeria, saw her home swept away by the encroaching sea. What was once a spacious 10-room house, a sanctuary for Olufunsho and her five children, was swallowed by the relentless force of rising sea waters.

With no place to go, Olufunsho was...