Life in the Creeks
‘I beg for alms to pay my children’s school fees’
Umar Ahmed was once a successful businessman trading in footwear on the streets of Abuja. Then he had to find...
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‘Begging for survival is a daily battle’
The location is the popular Igbudu Market in Warri, Delta State. He wore a long-sleeve blue shirt and a green...
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‘There are more sellers than buyers in the market, it is frustrating’
Oghenerukevwe Sunday, a 29-year-old mother and wife, was breastfeeding her two-year-old daughter. The dark-complexioned woman wore a long face and...
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‘His constant battery almost led to my death so I had to run here’
Twenty-nine-year-old Prudence Donald was seen sitting in front of a large compound at Oviri Olomu Community in Ughelli South Local...
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Why is it difficult for me to feed with N1,000? —74-yr-old beggar
Saibu Umar woke up one fateful morning with life out of his limbs, unable to walk again. He was then...
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‘With the rising cost of living, eating one meal a day has become a struggle’
Mrs Josephine Pattern spoke with Saturday Tribune after some hesitatioin. She’s one one of the industrious Urhobo women whose means...
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‘Before this regime, we were so lazy, but now, even if it’s raining, we must go out to look for food’
Mrs Mary Edward was sighted walking briskly and pushing a wheelbarrow to her farm on a Wednesday morning at agrarian...
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‘I make N5,000 per week but Garri is now N8,000’
Forty-three-year-old Mrs Evelyn Kentewebode of Ijaw extraction was sighted at Oviri, Olomu town, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta...
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‘The country is hard, but it’s harder on the poor’
During separate chats with two of our respondents already featured on this page, Abdullahi Garba and Muhammad Umari mentioned a...
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‘If those who give us alms are lamenting hardship, what’s the lot of we with no limbs?’
He was hit by a car a few months after he completed his primary school which left him crippled. Fifteen-year-old...
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