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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. 

Davy Fidel (Freelancer) O f course, road construction is a welcome development in any community that had long been abandoned. It is something no body in his or her right senses will object. However, to avoid a shaddy job, people in the Awodi-Ora community must be able to monitor the construction of the road. 

Davy Fidel, Freelancer  F ollowing the erupted "#ENDSARS" protests that broke grounds in many communities, and also states across the country - days of the protests, where thousands of young people were on the streets protesting. Not only to scrab SARS, due to persons who had met death in the hands of Special Anti-robbery Squad. But for the government to provide jobs and good living for people.  This spark also brings to mind the Endsars protest that took place in Ajegunle, a populated slum city in Lagos, where police brutality and extortion of young people and also abuse of democratic rights are of high record. The Campaigner via LIFEINSLUM was there to witnessed and covered this eventful story, a flame that touched the heavens and left a mark like tattoos on the chest of history.  ***** It was on Saturday, October 10, 2020. Group of young people, in their numbers,  spontaneously gathered at a popular bus stop: "People's", Olodi Apapa, to protest #EndSARS. The ...