Human on the Street

We can’t compare Buhari’s govt with this one; things are very hard now —Ado, street beggar

Sadiya Ado is a beggar in Ibadan,  Oyo State, she is from Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State. to…

2 years ago

‘Life is hard, I want to marry off my teenage daughters’

Child marriage is an acceptable culture in Northern Nigeria which made Salisu Buzu, a beggar and father of four from…

2 years ago

My children grew up in Ibadan, but I took them back to the North and married them off —Rahinatu, visually impaired beggar

“I came to Ibadan, Oyo State 30 years ago I remember that time very well. I was really scared of…

2 years ago

After 10 years on the road, I’ve mastered antics of robbers, extortionists, says okada rider, Umar

Umar Ibrahim has been riding motorcycle, popularly called okada, in Ibadan for 10 years. In those years, he says, he…

2 years ago

I almost died killing Sallah rams for people, says Ibadan butcher

Sallah periods used to be the time when Mumini Salawu made more money by going to slaughter and cut up…

2 years ago

‘Most rich people in the north don’t care about us the poor’

On May 29, this year in his inaugural speech, President Bola Tinubu announced the removal of fuel subsidy. Ever since,…

2 years ago

‘The Fulani we lived peacefully with joined gunmen to sack our village’

Life took a twist for Khiritmwa Solomon and her family one faithful Thursday morning when gun men attacked her once…

2 years ago

‘I never thought I would be this far from home’

For Mustapha Bello, a grain seller, fate may have brought him from Sokoto State, to Ibadan, Oyo State, but he…

2 years ago

‘I left my husband, started riding Keke to feed my children’

The saying, ‘what a man can do, a woman can do better’, is being embodied by Ayomide Olaniran, a woman…

2 years ago

‘I became handicapped at 12, today at 59, I have no wife, no children’

It started all of a sudden when I was 12 years old and in primary two back then. I became…

2 years ago

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