LIFEINSLUM

The memory of this picture reminds me of the experience of people living in this community, who in their everyday life struggle to bear the brunt that tear their flesh. It was a day that lives to be told the shock of the experience of what the eyes saw when life was hit like storm without a notice. With the excuse of the government of Lagos State on road constructions in the ghetto community,

Life in Slums: ANOTHER INCREMENT: A strangle neck for the poor : Since the inception of PSP, the local government has always argued that is the best, functional and cheaper means to

Since the inception of PSP, the local government has always argued that is the best, functional and cheaper means to sanitize and maintain the Ajegunle environment. But the reality on ground is that, the government of Karmal-Fatai Ajidagba has been using it to extremely tax the people even though they claim the levy is small: #100:00 per room every month. Inasmuch, the levy is small, the poor class still grumbles bitterly over it, because the latter felt that the government is over-charging them and also, have decided not to be effective in their social responsibility in the community by providing social amenities with the public resources under local government management and control.

Life in Slums: THE CLOSURE OF AJEGUNLE MARKETS: ANOTHER ATTACK ON... : Because of the economic crisis and contradictions that is confronting the poor masses and the collapse of the industrial nati...

Because of the economic crisis and contradictions that is confronting the poor masses and the collapse of the industrial nations of Nigeria, and the massive hike of unemployment, millions of youths, fathers, mothers, relation and families have to begin to scratch a living in the petty trading to keep life going as an alternative to resolve some immediate needs. But this attempt made by the poor masses have been threaten by draconian laws and policies, forcing a lot of these people under these laws like sanitation, traffic law etc introduce by ACN government, as a means of making the masses pay for what they don’t really used. The closure of Ajegunle boundary market amongst others like

 II n the crystal ball of reality. Poverty is something that continues to live like plague in every corner of ghetto wall. Nothing is worse than seeing people living like this in the society of abundance. 

In this land of frustration, deprivation and pain in the heart, it grows like seed yielding no better fruit but fruitless life. It is like a sore that won’t stop making more injuries lingers again and again, as everyday counts itself.  And as deprivation makes the day and