LIFEINSLUM

Remembering someone in life comes with a sharp meaning behind it especially when such a person made impact to advance the cause of humanity through breaking every day in profit hands. March 20 th , 2016 was the

I am 56 of age And my name is Teach me to spell Name I don’t know How to hold pen And which letter to write first The name of me People pronounce for me People of malodorous ideas

Today, 22 March, 2016, the world is celebrating World's Water Day. A day set aside when different organizations, institutions and government agencies sit in round table to hold seminars and programs to discuss about the

One Saturday evening on the second quarter of 2015, where hustling is unending, the people in this community came out in their numbers to pour out the heap of anger laid in their heart for so long. They felt that the government who sold the electricity sector to the private companies (GENCO and DISCO) has continued to over charge the community by issuing “crazy bill”. These peoples’, whose living condition is terrible, believed that the electricity bill is above the rim for continual payment. For the residents, if nothing is done, these private companies won’t stop issuing out “madness billing”

About four months ago, this captured was taken on the very day of this celebration. It was captured to unveil the fact that not all celebrations will make you smile and sympathize with. Some will make you pity the horrible odd and pit kind celebration people were placed of low-income background has to go through in order to be in the page of celebrating May 27. Nobody in his/her right senses will want to patronize celebrating in a very odd condition especially when May 27 was keyed to many children. Why it is inevitable for a lot of people not to avoid this even when the pocket is dry. The pressure of marking this celebration for children can’t be neglected.

June 9, 2015 was a terrible experience for families and resident in this community. It was a day like saying the world has come to an end. A day a lot of families living in the pit of poverty were highly affected. It is a day properties, shanty houses, schools in the community were all damaged and flooded respectively. It is also a day commercial activities like petty traders selling in this community, commuters plying this road, has to find an alternative to resolve this environmental hazard experience. Again, it is a day resident of poor shanty life in the community, prays for their gods to

Nobody will ever believe that people are still living in an environment like this, in a country like Nigeria with abundant resources where the government has ruled out anything connected to make life wear smile in the faces of the wretched. But because of the ugly nature of life, people have no choice to choose than to continue to live under a terrible condition, forcing them to adapt life in the first instance what is very horrible in outlook. The issue of ‘choice’ brings to mind the graphic nature of how millions of families in this country