‘Fuel prices have gone up, food is unaffordable, now, education, our only ladder out of poverty, is being taken away from us’
At the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Effurun,…
‘Nobody is coming to save us, I started hustling early because I knew this’
At just 15, while many of his peers…
‘We are working hard, but life is getting tougher by the day’
It was a sunny Thursday—one of those scorching…
‘Buhari messed up the country before Tinubu came in, now, there’s no real difference’
It was a chilly Wednesday morning. The rain…
‘I used to pay more than N40,000 per month to area boys, others in Lagos’
Muhammed Lawal does not believe Nigeria has a…
‘Business is quite tough, I buy fuel at N1,200 per litre’
Tuomo Town, an Ijaw enclave, serves as the…
‘I felt sand entering my eyes, then I went blind’
•29-yr-old single mother tells sad story She is…
‘In Katsina someone can shoot you because of N1,000’
For about eight years, Mansour Shafa, popularly called…
Warri beggars: ‘We don’t have girlfriends here because things are hard’
They’re two jolly friends—united by the same fate—both…
Nigeria continues to produce exceptional Films despite industry challenges —Olusanya
Despite his behind-the-scene roles in the Nigerian film…
‘This country finds it difficult to help its youths’
GHENETEGA Oritse is a young, married man who…
‘I beg for alms to pay my children’s school fees’
Umar Ahmed was once a successful businessman trading…
‘There are more sellers than buyers in the market, it is frustrating’
Oghenerukevwe Sunday, a 29-year-old mother and wife, was…
‘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…
Why is it difficult for me to feed with N1,000? —74-yr-old beggar
Saibu Umar woke up one fateful morning with…
‘With the rising cost of living, eating one meal a day has become a struggle’
Mrs Josephine Pattern spoke with Saturday Tribune after…
‘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…
‘I make N5,000 per week but Garri is now N8,000’
Forty-three-year-old Mrs Evelyn Kentewebode of Ijaw extraction was…
‘The country is hard, but it’s harder on the poor’
During separate chats with two of our respondents…
and then