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Lamentations of displaced Onitsha Main Market traders

…Some spaces for demolished shops now serve as car parks, refuse dump site By Chimaobi Nwaiwu FEW months ago, precisely on March 1, 2026, the Anambra State Government moved in with bulldozers to demolish some shops at the popular Onitsha Main Market. The government claimed the shops were illegal, that they were not authorised to […]
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Ugborodo : Oil rich Itsekiri community deep in crisis 

By Jimitota Onoyume , Assistant News Editor  Fear hangs in the salty air of Ugborodo, in the oil-rich Itsekiri community, also known as Excravos, in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, like a stubborn cloud that refuses to clear. Anxiety has gradually replaced the once familiar rhythm of communal life. For more than […]

I was drugged, forced to sleep with 30 men a day — Teenager dv/sav/Svagsdbzdz

By Matthew Johnson LAGOS—Emotions ran high at the Lagos State Police Command yesterday, when a 16-year-old girl, Chidinma, narrated how she was allegedly trafficked from Imo State to Lagos and forced into prostitution for four months, during which she was made to sleep with 30 men daily, beaten repeatedly, and denied payment. The teenager, who said […]

When drains become dumps: Bayelsa park battles filth, apathy

By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA—The drains around Ekeki Motor Park in the heart of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, were built to carry water. Today, they carry shame. Plastic bottles, sachet water wrappers, rotting food, dead rats, all festers in dark, sluggish channels that food stalls, POS kiosks, and the feet of thousands who pass through […]

Next downpour could kill more, flood-hit Cross River community cries out

By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR — For residents of the riverside settlement of Efut Efio Ene, the sky is no longer a sight of hope, but a countdown to possible death. Every dark cloud brings fresh dread and every heavy downpour, they say, could sweep away more lives. Years of unchecked flooding have turned homes into ruins, […]

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