Beggars

Warri beggars: ‘We don’t have girlfriends here because things are hard’

They’re two jolly friends—united by the same fate—both carry about dry legs, courtesy of polio. A scooter-like machine aids their…

3 months ago

Begging Revolution: Why Digitalized Begging Should Be Discouraged

In the age of social media, platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and X have revolutionised how people connect, create, and even…

3 months ago

Lagos vows action as beggars deploy bank accounts, QR code for alms collection

SUBAIR MOHAMMED, EBOSELUME OLUTOLA and BOLA BADMUS write on the ramifications of a novel alms collection strategy by beggars on…

6 months ago

Security operatives arrest 15 beggars, 19 scavengers across Abuja

The ban on street begging by the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike and the directive to pick the beggars off…

6 months ago

Abuja: Stop Wike’s plan to evict beggars, NGO urges Tinubu

A Non-Governmental Organization, Long Term Solution for Destitute Initiative has called on President Bola Tinubu to caution the Minister of…

6 months ago

‘People who used to give up to N1000 to beggars before now give just N100’

It was a sunny afternoon in the popular Hausa Quarters in Warri South Local Government Area, Delta State. There, hordes…

8 months ago

Begging to make a living

VINCENT KURAUN takes a look at the activities of school-age children begging on the streets of Lagos and why they…

11 months ago

More beggars, fewer patrons: How economic hardship is forcing good Samaritans away from beggars

In this report, MICHAEL BABATUNDE and VINCENT KURAUN speak with beggars on why they have taken to the business of…

1 year ago

It is not true that we sell alms collected to money doublers —Beggars

Hussaina Muhammed and her brother, Auwalu Abdullahi, both from Zamfara State left home many years ago because of the insecurity…

1 year ago

Kwara commences evacuation of street beggars in Ilorin

Kwara State government, on Wednesday, commenced an evacuation exercise of street beggars in the Ilorin metropolis, the state capital. Speaking…

2 years ago

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