The Lagos State government has sentenced 26 members of the notorious ‘Omotaku’ group to three months’ imprisonment and arrested 115 street beggars in ongoing enforcement operations across the state. This was disclosed in a statement posted on X today by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab. According to the s...
•Chimamanda Adichie Iconic Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says the suffering of ordinary Nigerians is what worries her most about the country’s current economic situation. Chimamanda lamented that the ongoing hardship has reduced many middle-class Nigerians, who were previously managing to get by, to the point of begging. In an exclu...
•Nyesom Wike The Federal High Court in Abuja today, adjourned a suit filed by some vulnerable FCT residents, including scavengers, beggars, petty traders, among others, against the Minister, Nyesom Wike, until May 29 for hearing. Justice James Omotosho adjourned the matter after Adamu Mahmood, who appeared for the plaintiff, sought an extensio...
•Nyesom Wike Some vulnerable FCT residents including scavengers, beggars, and petty traders, among others, have filed a suit against the Minister, Nyesom Wike, demanding N500 million in damages over an alleged breach of their fundamental rights. A legal practitioner, Abba Hikima, filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1749/3024 before Justice James...
The ban on street begging by the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike and the directive to pick the beggars off the streets commenced today with 15 beggars and 19 scavengers arrested across the nation’s capital. The operations that had a combined force of the Police, Military, DSS, NSCDC, and other paramilitary agencies were deployed in [&helli...
•Abuja beggar “What have we done?” a beggar, Ali Bappa, exclaimed in disbelief when our correspondent informed him about the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike’s directive to arrest beggars in the nation’s capital. Wike had during the flag-off ceremony for access road construction in the Katampe District on Tuesday threatened a cr...
•Hunger bites Across Nigeria, many poor citizens are battered by hunger pangs, forcing them to abandon decency and steal food in public places. Some have also resorted to serially begging for food and seeking palliatives in a bid to put an end to the seemingly endless cycle of hardship in the country, reports Saturday PUNCH. […]
•FCT minister, Nyesom Wike The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project has threatened a lawsuit against the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, if he does not withdraw the ultimatum he issued to beggars in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Wike during the flag-off ceremony for access road construction in the Katampe District of the Feder...
Abuja, Nigeria’s bustling capital city, is a landscape of contradictions. While luxury cars weave through broad avenues and glass buildings glimmer in the sunlight, at intersections and street corners, another world unfolds — a world populated by men, women and children eking out a living through begging. For many, life in the streets of Abuja...
•Street beggars Nigerians are well known for the tradition of giving alms to the needy. Many people believe that the needy, particularly beggars, are angels sent to test their act of giving, reports Vanguard. Others believe that when the barren gives to those with children, she will give birth to children of her own, while […]
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