What Teenage Girls Do For Money On Lagos Streets

Street trading and hawking, in its simplest form, is the act of selling of products along the streets or from place to place.
This is a common trend in Nigeria and a part of everyday life. On a daily basis, you see young children, both male and female between 7 and teenage years with their wares, running after moving vehicles on highways.
Snacks, drinks, household items, vegetables and fruits constitute the major goods they hawk.
While some pray for traffic jams so they sell their goods, others take advantage of bus parks, bus stops, streets, markets and any other public place with a lot of people to sell their wares.

Teenage girls hawks local gin at Ijebu Ode, Ogun State

Some of these children hawk in groups, moving from one location to the other from morning till late in the evening.

Anyim Says Jonathan Created The Opposition

The secretary to the government of the federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan deliberately created opposition in Nigeria to deepen democracy.

Anyim Pius Anyim

Representing Jonathan in Abuja during a presidential dinner organised by the University of Port Harcourt Alumni Association, Anyim said that the opposition were enjoying the atmosphere that the Jonathan administration had created.

Abia State Gives Out Cars To Reduce Unemployment

The Abia state government has given out vehicles free of charge to the youths of Ikwuano local government area as a way of reducing unemployment and alleviating poverty, Channels Television reports.

Governor Theodore Orji

According to Governor Theodore Orji, the gesture was to create jobs, reduce idleness and criminality, enhance the standard of living and minimise accidents associated with the use of motorcycles popularly known as okadas.

Nightmares On Benin-Ore Road Before Goodluck's Tenure

Twenty six-year-old Timi Adeoye graduated two years ago from the University of Benin and was a frequent user of the Benin-Ore route. According to him, “travelling on Nigerian roads used to be a nightmare for me; I still remember spending twelve long hours on a trip from Lagos to Benin regularly since I got admission eight years ago. “
“The memory of those trips still leaves a distaste in my mouth”, he continues, “but I had to continue because I had to go school.”
Since it is the major link road between the west and south of Nigeria, it was appalling that it was in that state of decay. From 2006 to as recently as 2012, anyone who plied the Benin-Ore route could have testified to its horrific state. The deplorable condition of the road aside, there were armed robbers infested the area, and travellers were inclined to always say a prayer to avert terrible traffic jams lasting hours, and loss of lives and property. As Adeoye aptly describes it, it was “hell on Earth”.

Timi Adeoye: Benin-Ore-Shagamu Expressway Under Goodluck Jonathan

Popular columnist, Sonala Olumhense once said, “If you are a Nigerian, chances are you know someone who has spent an entire day, at least once, traveling the 140-mile Sagamu-Benin City road,

Ex-militants Warn Against Another Poll Shift

A coalition of Niger Delta ex-militant leaders have rejected any planned shift in election dates after the initial dates, February 14 and February 28, were moved to March 28 and April 11.

Niger Delta Militants. Photo: Tife Owolabi

They have also declared that the March 28 and April 11 dates for the elections should remain “non-negotiable”.

Eight killed in restaurant shooting in Czech Republic

Local man opens fire in a restaurant near southeastern town of Uhersky Brod, before shooting himself dead.

Police officer patrol the area near the restaurant where a gunman opened fire in Uhersky Brod [AP]

Eight people have been shot dead in a restaurant near a southeastern Czech town, in the worst shooting attack in the country's history.

Activists say 90 Christians abducted by ISIL in Syria

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says abductions took place after ISIL seized Assyrian villages from Kurdish forces.

The kidnapping appears to be in direct response to recent gains made by Kurdish forces in Syria's northeast [AP}

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Wednesday.