As Nigeria floods rise, canoes and cholera return

IKORODU, Nigeria (AP) — Residents cook in knee-deep flood water and children wade past carrying roosters above their shoulders in this city on the outskirts of Lagos, where the rising tide poses a health risk by overwhelming sewage-filled outdoor toilets.

In Ikorodu in southwestern Nigeria, wooden canoes sail in creeks newly formed over roads, forcing people to use gangplanks of scrap wood to stay out of the muddy current. And government assistance, despite Nigeria's billions in oil money, is nowhere to be found.

"The government just eats the money, keeps it to themselves," said Joy Jolly, 36, balanced atop one gangplank walkway Wednesday in Ikorodu. "The people dey …