Life in the Creeks
In the north, rich men don’t help the poor —Warri-based street beggar
You will mistake him for a Fulani herder with his rod! He is not. The wooden rod is his third...
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My child is a product of rape, I have four siblings to feed —23-yr-old P/Harcourt street hawker
By hawking iced sachet water daily on major roads in oil-rich Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, beautiful 23-year-old Miss...
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‘Don’t they know people are hungry and dying?’
He desired a higher education in order to be better placed in the social ladder in life. At least, someone...
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I was a beggar during Buhari’s regime and I’m still a beggar now. Any difference?
He was met on a wheelchair donning a sky blue guinea brocade top. A victim of a mysterious disease that...
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‘I became a street hawker after ‘they’ destroyed my vegetable farm
Patience is a widowed, petty trader who sells kolanuts and ginger along Ikpa Road, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The mother-of-two...
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‘Things are expensive but I will lose customers if I increase my prices’
Twenty-nine-year-old Nasiru Aliyu hails from a village in Sokoto State. To him, the only evidence that there are still governments...
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Buhari’s govt left us almost dead, reason we are many in the south —Muhammada, amputee
Slim Yusuf Muhammad ranks among the very young beggars in the metropolis of Warri, the commercial centre of Delta State....
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Doctors said I lost my eyesight due to excessive weeping over my husband’s death —Beggar
She is not mentally impaired. She is armed with a wooden tamborine with which she sings gospel choruses to draw...
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Street beggar to Tinubu: Nigeria should not fight Niger, we have relatives there
Times are really hard. If Nigerians, who are gainfully employed are groaning and finding it pretty difficult to cope with...
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‘I sleep in people’s stalls, filling stations’
Muhammadu Musa is not happy with the unending season of rains in Warri, the commercial nerve centre of Delta State....
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