Data for: Evicting the Poor in the ‘Overriding Public Interest’: Crisis of Rights and Interests, and Anti-Planning in Nigerian Cities.

The data of reported cases of displacements in Nigeria is presented in tabular matrix with, on the one hand, nested rows designated as six Sub-regions, 36 States and Abuja FCT, and Case Location/Local Government Area, and, on the other, 14 columns of variables. The rows were itemised correspondingly as follows: Type of infrastructure project; Mode of displacement; Status of displacement; Mechanisms of displacement; Reasons given for displacement; Project funder/initiator; Type of displacement; Number of people/persons affected; Reported social characteristics of people affected; Response of those affected; Action(s) Outcome; Source(s) of information and link; Date(s) reported; and Notes.