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Source: MEDIUM.  By Davy Fidel (Author/Freelance) F ootball is now the biggest sport in the world. And, it is attracting the highest commercials and world views. It is not the fun that matters but the merchandise that governs it. The politics, investments, and profits are also ingredients that have spurred the game today. People watching it has brought in a new flavour and new market for investors and club owners. 

Source: Lifeinslum Media & Photos. Davy Fidel (Author/Freelance) I n the year 2022, Lagos was ranked the "fourth wealthiest city on the African continent with a total private wealth of $97 billion", Nairametrics reported. It's added that Lagos is behind the three leading wealthiest cities in Africa: Johannesburg, Cape Town and Cairo. The total private wealth of each of these cities is US$239 billion, US$131 billion and US$228 billion respectively.

Busy night, Abule-Egba. Photo credit: Lifeinslum By Davy Fidel (Freelance/Author) I n Lagos, Abule Egba is a big town that has it ups and downs like in every other town and cities in the metropolis. It is said to be a developing town that is situated in the mainland --- another heart beat of Lagos with plenty of commercial life. It has a route to Ikeja, Agege, Oshodi, the government Secretariat, and other neighbouring communities that has commercial activities. Through Abule-Egba, you can connect your destination to whenever place, route you want to go.

Agege: under the bridge. Credit: The Campaigner By Davy Fidel Freelancer/Author. T here are plenty of things to always say when you are visiting a place. It will be what you don't like about the place. The things you think are good, bad, or ugly to you. Or, those things that you are thinking about the place that needs immediate attention from the government. Is it the social life? The environment or other things will require those in the local authorities to start finding a solution to the problem. 

  Source: Dailypost, Nigeria.  By Davy Fidel  (Freelance, Author) H annah Saliu never planned to die this way. Unfortunately, she met death at the hands of some angry youth, who felt she has committed blasphemy by using the Quran to engage in immoral acts as a means of survival. Thus, this is not to say people's beliefs should not be respected. 

https://cutt.ly/2022bestoutstandingpoembook Editorial :  The Campaigner . T he Campaigner is here to bring you a brief story of the author of "Street Tears."

In the Museum By Davy Fidel Freelance, Writer, Author S aturday 4 June 2022 is a day we will never forget. It is a day that will remain in our memories forever, especially stepping out of our comfort zone of writing, to celebrate each other as writers, poets, and authors.  This is not an easy thing for any creative mind to do. However, the year 2022 Poetourism was an educative one, and also, inspiring. It is an event for thirty people and each person marvelled with the experience, especially in the PAU Museum.  The Campaigner --- a subsidiary of LIFEINSLUM was there to cover the event voluntarily. 

Caption: Ikeja-Lagos. Photo credit: Slumphotos  By Davy Fidel Writer/Freelance A  few weeks ago, on the  26th of March, 2022 at Iyano Sashi i.e the other part of Lagos as I chose to call it. I was in a barber's shop and a discussion ensued. It is on the question of Nigeria and whether there is any hope, now and in the future. It is a question a lot of people are asking themselves every day the clock is ticking while the country is roasting. 

Photo credit: @slumphotos Davy Fidel  ( Freelance, Author) E very area has their peculiarity. The uniqueness, the ugliness, and the beautiful side of it. It might also have it's up and down that when you are there you won't stop wondering. Ojuelegba is not a new tone and place for many people living in Lagos. It is not a place people don't go to daily. 

Photo credit: Slumphotos By Davy Fidel (Writer/Freelance) F or people who have not been to Iyana Ipaja. And for people outside the shore of Nigeria, who only hears about the area or by chance come across the name, but have no concern to ask about the community. They will want to know what does the name Iyana Ipaja means? Does it has a root or it is just a myth?

Source: Flat Rock By Davy Fidel Writer/Freelance I n Nigeria, at a time, the propaganda branding some news is that our population and our tongue is our problem. That Nigeria is made up of 250 ethnic groups and a population of 180 million is the reason why we are having ethnic clashes unravelling among people. 

Protest at Ikeja, under the bridge Davy Fidel ( Freelance) I t might interest us to know why the FG decided to postpone the hike in pump price.  This is not possible because it might be linked to the recent military coup in Burkina Faso. Added to it, the tension and anger of the masses piling up against the regime. 

Source: www.voanews.com Exclusive Interview with Barrister Adesina Ogunlana By Davy Fidel Freelance. O n Monday, November 22, 2021, lawyers, radicals, activists, and concerned Nigerians gathered to address the press houses invited on the latest released #ENDSARS Panel Report.  This was after the constituted Panel Inquiry report had been submitted to the led government of Sanwo Olu (Lagos State) awaiting the White Paper next week.

Photo Credit: LIFEINSLUM By Davy Fidel  (Freelancer/Writer) E ight years after the power sector was privatized, there hasn't been any improvement in the supply of electricity to millions of households in Nigeria. Rather, megawatts have continued to drop rapidly. On most occasions, it is between 4000MWs to 5000MWs for a population of 200 million. This is the highest ever generated and supplied by the Generating and Distribution Companies since November 2013.

Photo credit: LIFEINSLUM   By Davy Fidel C ompare to the Debt Management Office report of December 31, 2020, the Nigeria Debt Profile was N32.915 trillion. This report was at a period when Nigeria's crude oil benchmark was revised from $57 per barrel to $30 because of the downturn according to the government. However, recent statistics have revealed more scary news pounding the Nigerian economy into pieces --- if the debt profile continues to rise consequentially. 

Source: oregie.wordpress.com/pinterest By Davy Fidel, Freelancer S ince the lockdown that shipwreck a lot of countries undergoing an economic downturn, millions of Nigerians wearing the shackles of economic hardship, have witnessed a sharp rise in food prices shockingly. A recent report confirms it statistically. Business Day said, " 60kg of yellow garri currently sells for N19, 000 as against N9, 600 sold in December 2020, a 97 percent rise in price" (Tues, 06 July 2021).

Photo credit: I-D magazine By Davy Fidel, Freelancer A Il over the news, there are several reports that governments are enacting laws against the LGBT community; haunting down Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans-sexual people's freedom of sexual rights. These laws are totally against the right of people choosing not to be conventional, but off the hook of dogmatic cultural lifestyle forced to live. It is a law, according to LGBT activists, autocratic in nature and abuse of their democratic rights. 

Photo credit: The Campaigner Davy Fidel, Freelancer A jegunle - Wednesday 16 June 2021, a group of communities under the aegis of Coalition for Affordable Regular Electricity, CARE, organize a mass sensitization rally to reject the new hike in electricity tariff to take effect on July 1, 2021. The group kick off the rally at exactly 10:30 am at a convergence point in the suburb of Ajegunle. Different organizations like MSA, Landlord and Tenant Association of Nigeria, Ajeromi Ifelodun Community Movement, etc fully participated in the rally.

Source: New York Time T his is almost seven days since the saga in Twitter when millions of users in Nigeria were denied access. Since this period, a lot of Nigerian users have been cut off from the world. The Nigerian government unilaterally went ahead to approach all tech agencies did such without respect to democratic rights on Freedom of Speech and Expression

Davy Fidel (Freelancer)  F riends and lover of music. Music they says fill the soul especially when it is one that hits the core of one's heart when presenting the reality before us as "crusted" bread.