Police broke down the gate of a huge housing complex to oust thousands of civil servants and their families Friday in the third mass eviction by the government this week in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos. Umma Muhammed, a spokeswoman for tenants of the complex known as 1,004 Residences, said the move followed a decision by the government to sell off several publicly owned housing blocks for civil servants in a privatization scheme. Authorities have not provided the estimated 8,000 residents with other accommodation, she said. Police were not available for comment. Full Story