Nigerian Economy Today : More children Starving, begging in the Streets.

Nobody is getting a break from the economy right now. The wealthy shed tears alongside the poor.

However, the cash crunch brought on by the naira re-design was the final nail in the coffin, as reported by Vanguard.

Yet the recent death knell played by the removal of fuel subsidies has been played for the already impoverished.

In modern Nigeria, the average family struggles to afford one decent meal, let alone three square.

This effect reveals more about the most defenceless members of society: children.

Many parents today, unable to provide for their children, are sending their minor children to work in low-paying jobs.

Nowadays, kids as young as six or seven will hawk goods or solicit money from adults. Others can be seen in the middle of the road with buckets of water, washing cars.

These youngsters face an increasingly uncertain future. Some drivers are very appreciative and give them small donations, while others don’t even bother to roll down their windows.

Some parents have perfected the practise of voluntarily placing their children with what they believe to be wealthy families in exchange for monthly or annual payments.

The tragic ending of these plots is that the children are sold into servitude by their wealthy families.

Tuminu Zacheaus, a young boy of nine, earns money by washing cars during traffic jams.

He explained his plight as follows: “I used to attend a government primary school, until last year when my mother, who is the breadwinner of the house, asked that I stop schooling.

My friends and I are the same age, and they convinced me to start washing cars when I was bored at home.

On a good day, I can make as much as N1,000. We go from place to place, usually depending on the time of day and the amount of traffic.

We are a family of four, and I am the middle child. My older sisters are currently staying with an aunt they’ve never met. My mom washes clothes for a living, and my brother and I live with her.

Losing his mother at such a young age has been a devastating blow to 12-year-old Lukman Kamoru, who must now perform a variety of menial tasks to make ends meet.

There is no mother in my life. My father and stepmother are my primary carers. My dad works as a garage collector and has little time for me. Once a week, thrice a week, he’s home. The recent hike in transport costs, however, has forced him to reduce his visits home to once per week. I’ve been living hand to mouth and not in school for the past five to two years.

My stepmother has two children and makes a living as a water vendor. Once in a while she’ll even feed me.

I’ve only recently taken to begging in order to stave off starvation. I’ve had to survive by washing cars in traffic jams before. Kids my age and older are involved in this activity. But traffic jams don’t happen every day, so I’ve taken to begging because nobody would hire a kid my age.

It ranges from N500 to N800 per day. Since nobody is willing to help me out, my income has dropped to below N500.

I dropped out of school and learned to make ends meet on the streets. I oftentimes skip going home. Nearer to this area, I sleep on tables in front of a shop or on the floor of the market.

Monsurat Adekanju, age 8, attends a government primary school but is required to sell dried fish every day (including weekends) after class.

I go to a public elementary school. My older brother and I sell dry fish to support our family every day. She claimed the money would go towards our rent, utilities, clothing, and food.

My mum is a dry fish saleswoman, too.

According to the 2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) and National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, 31% of children aged 5-17 were involved in child labour, and 27% of children aged 5-17 were involved in economic activities beyond their age-specific threshold.

The bureau also reported that 29% of children aged 5-17 were engaged in hazardous occupations, such as carrying heavy loads, being exposed to extreme cold, heat, or humidity, or working with dangerous tools or heavy machinery.

In a report from 2020, the International Labour Organisation found that 15 million children in West Africa were working. This number was highest in Nigeria.

Imagine how much of that group would have grown as people’s standard of living in Nigeria has steadily declined.

Human rights activist and founder of the Ambassador for Peace and Enlightenment Foundation Prince Ichie has observed that the number of children working has increased, and that the wealthy are forced to hide their embarrassment and resort to begging.

The use of children as labourers is steadily rising. There are a lot of kids who have to quit school and start hawking to make ends meet.

Some of them are even begging now. Most of their parents have become commercial or executive beggars because they can’t make ends meet in today’s economy. It’s getting really difficult.

A woman was recently taken into custody in Idumota for using children as labour. This lady recruits youngsters (around 6 and 7 years old) to be her apprentices. They travel great distances by toting boxes of goods on their heads. Not this, though. While working so hard, the woman struck them with anything she could find. If they don’t cry when she hits them, she bites them. However, the news of her capture brought me great joy. Only one in a million or so.

Some families, you see, hand their kids over to slave owners.

We have captured a large number of them, but the economic situation in Nigeria continues to deteriorate.

The new economic policies are harmful to regular people. Impoverishes society as a whole. The daily phone calls I receive from concerned citizens detailing the rise of child labour and charity appeals are disheartening. Many people are losing their lives due to a lack of food. How many people can the minimum wage of N30,000 support in this country?

“The rise in fuel costs is another factor in falling living standards across the country. Everything’s more expensive now.

It’s challenging for a family to afford even a single square meal, much less a healthy diet.

It’s true that conditions in Nigeria are worsening and causing widespread confusion. We have no idea what is going on. Every day, we wake up with the hope that things will be better than they were during the eight years of the previous administration’s fruitless rule.

Nobody is getting a break from the economy right now. The wealthy shed tears alongside the poor.

However, the cash crunch brought on by the naira re-design was the final nail in the coffin, as reported by Vanguard.

Yet the recent death knell played by the removal of fuel subsidies has been played for the already impoverished.

In modern Nigeria, the average family struggles to afford one decent meal, let alone three square.

This effect reveals more about the most defenceless members of society: children.

Many parents today, unable to provide for their children, are sending their minor children to work in low-paying jobs.

Nowadays, kids as young as six or seven will hawk goods or solicit money from adults. Others can be seen in the middle of the road with buckets of water, washing cars.

These youngsters face an increasingly uncertain future. Some drivers are very appreciative and give them small donations, while others don’t even bother to roll down their windows.

Some parents have perfected the practise of voluntarily placing their children with what they believe to be wealthy families in exchange for monthly or annual payments.

The tragic ending of these plots is that the children are sold into servitude by their wealthy families.

Tuminu Zacheaus, a young boy of nine, earns money by washing cars during traffic jams.

He explained his plight as follows: “I used to attend a government primary school, until last year when my mother, who is the breadwinner of the house, asked that I stop schooling.

My friends and I are the same age, and they convinced me to start washing cars when I was bored at home.

On a good day, I can make as much as N1,000. We go from place to place, usually depending on the time of day and the amount of traffic.

We are a family of four, and I am the middle child. My older sisters are currently staying with an aunt they’ve never met. My mom washes clothes for a living, and my brother and I live with her.

Losing his mother at such a young age has been a devastating blow to 12-year-old Lukman Kamoru, who must now perform a variety of menial tasks to make ends meet.

There is no mother in my life. My father and stepmother are my primary carers. My dad works as a garage collector and has little time for me. Once a week, thrice a week, he’s home. The recent hike in transport costs, however, has forced him to reduce his visits home to once per week. I’ve been living hand to mouth and not in school for the past five to two years.

My stepmother has two children and makes a living as a water vendor. Once in a while she’ll even feed me.

I’ve only recently taken to begging in order to stave off starvation. I’ve had to survive by washing cars in traffic jams before. Kids my age and older are involved in this activity. But traffic jams don’t happen every day, so I’ve taken to begging because nobody would hire a kid my age.

It ranges from N500 to N800 per day. Since nobody is willing to help me out, my income has dropped to below N500.

I dropped out of school and learned to make ends meet on the streets. I oftentimes skip going home. Nearer to this area, I sleep on tables in front of a shop or on the floor of the market.

Monsurat Adekanju, age 8, attends a government primary school but is required to sell dried fish every day (including weekends) after class.

I go to a public elementary school. My older brother and I sell dry fish to support our family every day. She claimed the money would go towards our rent, utilities, clothing, and food.

My mum is a dry fish saleswoman, too.

According to the 2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) and National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, 31% of children aged 5-17 were involved in child labour, and 27% of children aged 5-17 were involved in economic activities beyond their age-specific threshold.

The bureau also reported that 29% of children aged 5-17 were engaged in hazardous occupations, such as carrying heavy loads, being exposed to extreme cold, heat, or humidity, or working with dangerous tools or heavy machinery.

In a report from 2020, the International Labour Organisation found that 15 million children in West Africa were working. This number was highest in Nigeria.

Imagine how much of that group would have grown as people’s standard of living in Nigeria has steadily declined.

Human rights activist and founder of the Ambassador for Peace and Enlightenment Foundation Prince Ichie has observed that the number of children working has increased, and that the wealthy are forced to hide their embarrassment and resort to begging.

The use of children as labourers is steadily rising. There are a lot of kids who have to quit school and start hawking to make ends meet.

Some of them are even begging now. Most of their parents have become commercial or executive beggars because they can’t make ends meet in today’s economy. It’s getting really difficult.

A woman was recently taken into custody in Idumota for using children as labour. This lady recruits youngsters (around 6 and 7 years old) to be her apprentices. They travel great distances by toting boxes of goods on their heads. Not this, though. While working so hard, the woman struck them with anything she could find. If they don’t cry when she hits them, she bites them. However, the news of her capture brought me great joy. Only one in a million or so.

Some families, you see, hand their kids over to slave owners.

We have captured a large number of them, but the economic situation in Nigeria continues to deteriorate.

The new economic policies are harmful to regular people. Impoverishes society as a whole. The daily phone calls I receive from concerned citizens detailing the rise of child labour and charity appeals are disheartening. Many people are losing their lives due to a lack of food. How many people can the minimum wage of N30,000 support in this country?

“The rise in fuel costs is another factor in falling living standards across the country. Everything’s more expensive now.

It’s challenging for a family to afford even a single square meal, much less a healthy diet.

It’s true that conditions in Nigeria are worsening and causing widespread confusion. We have no idea what is going on. Every day, we wake up with the hope that things will be better than they were during the eight years of the previous administration’s fruitless rule.

Nobody is getting a break from the economy right now. The wealthy shed tears alongside the poor.

However, the cash crunch brought on by the naira re-design was the final nail in the coffin, as reported by Vanguard.

Yet the recent death knell played by the removal of fuel subsidies has been played for the already impoverished.

In modern Nigeria, the average family struggles to afford one decent meal, let alone three square.

This effect reveals more about the most defenceless members of society: children.

Many parents today, unable to provide for their children, are sending their minor children to work in low-paying jobs.

Nowadays, kids as young as six or seven will hawk goods or solicit money from adults. Others can be seen in the middle of the road with buckets of water, washing cars.

These youngsters face an increasingly uncertain future. Some drivers are very appreciative and give them small donations, while others don’t even bother to roll down their windows.

Some parents have perfected the practise of voluntarily placing their children with what they believe to be wealthy families in exchange for monthly or annual payments.

The tragic ending of these plots is that the children are sold into servitude by their wealthy families.

Tuminu Zacheaus, a young boy of nine, earns money by washing cars during traffic jams.

He explained his plight as follows: “I used to attend a government primary school, until last year when my mother, who is the breadwinner of the house, asked that I stop schooling.

My friends and I are the same age, and they convinced me to start washing cars when I was bored at home.

On a good day, I can make as much as N1,000. We go from place to place, usually depending on the time of day and the amount of traffic.

We are a family of four, and I am the middle child. My older sisters are currently staying with an aunt they’ve never met. My mom washes clothes for a living, and my brother and I live with her.

Losing his mother at such a young age has been a devastating blow to 12-year-old Lukman Kamoru, who must now perform a variety of menial tasks to make ends meet.

There is no mother in my life. My father and stepmother are my primary carers. My dad works as a garage collector and has little time for me. Once a week, thrice a week, he’s home. The recent hike in transport costs, however, has forced him to reduce his visits home to once per week. I’ve been living hand to mouth and not in school for the past five to two years.

My stepmother has two children and makes a living as a water vendor. Once in a while she’ll even feed me.

I’ve only recently taken to begging in order to stave off starvation. I’ve had to survive by washing cars in traffic jams before. Kids my age and older are involved in this activity. But traffic jams don’t happen every day, so I’ve taken to begging because nobody would hire a kid my age.

It ranges from N500 to N800 per day. Since nobody is willing to help me out, my income has dropped to below N500.

I dropped out of school and learned to make ends meet on the streets. I oftentimes skip going home. Nearer to this area, I sleep on tables in front of a shop or on the floor of the market.

Monsurat Adekanju, age 8, attends a government primary school but is required to sell dried fish every day (including weekends) after class.

I go to a public elementary school. My older brother and I sell dry fish to support our family every day. She claimed the money would go towards our rent, utilities, clothing, and food.

My mum is a dry fish saleswoman, too.

According to the 2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) and National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, 31% of children aged 5-17 were involved in child labour, and 27% of children aged 5-17 were involved in economic activities beyond their age-specific threshold.

The bureau also reported that 29% of children aged 5-17 were engaged in hazardous occupations, such as carrying heavy loads, being exposed to extreme cold, heat, or humidity, or working with dangerous tools or heavy machinery.

In a report from 2020, the International Labour Organisation found that 15 million children in West Africa were working. This number was highest in Nigeria.

Imagine how much of that group would have grown as people’s standard of living in Nigeria has steadily declined.

Human rights activist and founder of the Ambassador for Peace and Enlightenment Foundation Prince Ichie has observed that the number of children working has increased, and that the wealthy are forced to hide their embarrassment and resort to begging.

The use of children as labourers is steadily rising. There are a lot of kids who have to quit school and start hawking to make ends meet.

Some of them are even begging now. Most of their parents have become commercial or executive beggars because they can’t make ends meet in today’s economy. It’s getting really difficult.

A woman was recently taken into custody in Idumota for using children as labour. This lady recruits youngsters (around 6 and 7 years old) to be her apprentices. They travel great distances by toting boxes of goods on their heads. Not this, though. While working so hard, the woman struck them with anything she could find. If they don’t cry when she hits them, she bites them. However, the news of her capture brought me great joy. Only one in a million or so.

Some families, you see, hand their kids over to slave owners.

We have captured a large number of them, but the economic situation in Nigeria continues to deteriorate.

The new economic policies are harmful to regular people. Impoverishes society as a whole. The daily phone calls I receive from concerned citizens detailing the rise of child labour and charity appeals are disheartening. Many people are losing their lives due to a lack of food. How many people can the minimum wage of N30,000 support in this country?

“The rise in fuel costs is another factor in falling living standards across the country. Everything’s more expensive now.

It’s challenging for a family to afford even a single square meal, much less a healthy diet.

It’s true that conditions in Nigeria are worsening and causing widespread confusion. We have no idea what is going on. Every day, we wake up with the hope that things will be better than they were during the eight years of the previous administration’s fruitless rule.

Nobody is getting a break from the economy right now. The wealthy shed tears alongside the poor.

However, the cash crunch brought on by the naira re-design was the final nail in the coffin, as reported by Vanguard.

Yet the recent death knell played by the removal of fuel subsidies has been played for the already impoverished.

In modern Nigeria, the average family struggles to afford one decent meal, let alone three square.

This effect reveals more about the most defenceless members of society: children.

Many parents today, unable to provide for their children, are sending their minor children to work in low-paying jobs.

Nowadays, kids as young as six or seven will hawk goods or solicit money from adults. Others can be seen in the middle of the road with buckets of water, washing cars.

These youngsters face an increasingly uncertain future. Some drivers are very appreciative and give them small donations, while others don’t even bother to roll down their windows.

Some parents have perfected the practise of voluntarily placing their children with what they believe to be wealthy families in exchange for monthly or annual payments.

The tragic ending of these plots is that the children are sold into servitude by their wealthy families.

Tuminu Zacheaus, a young boy of nine, earns money by washing cars during traffic jams.

He explained his plight as follows: “I used to attend a government primary school, until last year when my mother, who is the breadwinner of the house, asked that I stop schooling.

My friends and I are the same age, and they convinced me to start washing cars when I was bored at home.

On a good day, I can make as much as N1,000. We go from place to place, usually depending on the time of day and the amount of traffic.

We are a family of four, and I am the middle child. My older sisters are currently staying with an aunt they’ve never met. My mom washes clothes for a living, and my brother and I live with her.

Losing his mother at such a young age has been a devastating blow to 12-year-old Lukman Kamoru, who must now perform a variety of menial tasks to make ends meet.

There is no mother in my life. My father and stepmother are my primary carers. My dad works as a garage collector and has little time for me. Once a week, thrice a week, he’s home. The recent hike in transport costs, however, has forced him to reduce his visits home to once per week. I’ve been living hand to mouth and not in school for the past five to two years.

My stepmother has two children and makes a living as a water vendor. Once in a while she’ll even feed me.

I’ve only recently taken to begging in order to stave off starvation. I’ve had to survive by washing cars in traffic jams before. Kids my age and older are involved in this activity. But traffic jams don’t happen every day, so I’ve taken to begging because nobody would hire a kid my age.

It ranges from N500 to N800 per day. Since nobody is willing to help me out, my income has dropped to below N500.

I dropped out of school and learned to make ends meet on the streets. I oftentimes skip going home. Nearer to this area, I sleep on tables in front of a shop or on the floor of the market.

Monsurat Adekanju, age 8, attends a government primary school but is required to sell dried fish every day (including weekends) after class.

I go to a public elementary school. My older brother and I sell dry fish to support our family every day. She claimed the money would go towards our rent, utilities, clothing, and food.

My mum is a dry fish saleswoman, too.

According to the 2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) and National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, 31% of children aged 5-17 were involved in child labour, and 27% of children aged 5-17 were involved in economic activities beyond their age-specific threshold.

The bureau also reported that 29% of children aged 5-17 were engaged in hazardous occupations, such as carrying heavy loads, being exposed to extreme cold, heat, or humidity, or working with dangerous tools or heavy machinery.

In a report from 2020, the International Labour Organisation found that 15 million children in West Africa were working. This number was highest in Nigeria.

Imagine how much of that group would have grown as people’s standard of living in Nigeria has steadily declined.

Human rights activist and founder of the Ambassador for Peace and Enlightenment Foundation Prince Ichie has observed that the number of children working has increased, and that the wealthy are forced to hide their embarrassment and resort to begging.

The use of children as labourers is steadily rising. There are a lot of kids who have to quit school and start hawking to make ends meet.

Some of them are even begging now. Most of their parents have become commercial or executive beggars because they can’t make ends meet in today’s economy. It’s getting really difficult.

A woman was recently taken into custody in Idumota for using children as labour. This lady recruits youngsters (around 6 and 7 years old) to be her apprentices. They travel great distances by toting boxes of goods on their heads. Not this, though. While working so hard, the woman struck them with anything she could find. If they don’t cry when she hits them, she bites them. However, the news of her capture brought me great joy. Only one in a million or so.

Some families, you see, hand their kids over to slave owners.

We have captured a large number of them, but the economic situation in Nigeria continues to deteriorate.

The new economic policies are harmful to regular people. Impoverishes society as a whole. The daily phone calls I receive from concerned citizens detailing the rise of child labour and charity appeals are disheartening. Many people are losing their lives due to a lack of food. How many people can the minimum wage of N30,000 support in this country?

“The rise in fuel costs is another factor in falling living standards across the country. Everything’s more expensive now.

It’s challenging for a family to afford even a single square meal, much less a healthy diet.

It’s true that conditions in Nigeria are worsening and causing widespread confusion. We have no idea what is going on. Every day, we wake up with the hope that things will be better than they were during the eight years of the previous administration’s fruitless rule.

Nobody is getting a break from the economy right now. The wealthy shed tears alongside the poor.

However, the cash crunch brought on by the naira re-design was the final nail in the coffin, as reported by Vanguard.

Yet the recent death knell played by the removal of fuel subsidies has been played for the already impoverished.

In modern Nigeria, the average family struggles to afford one decent meal, let alone three square.

This effect reveals more about the most defenceless members of society: children.

Many parents today, unable to provide for their children, are sending their minor children to work in low-paying jobs.

Nowadays, kids as young as six or seven will hawk goods or solicit money from adults. Others can be seen in the middle of the road with buckets of water, washing cars.

These youngsters face an increasingly uncertain future. Some drivers are very appreciative and give them small donations, while others don’t even bother to roll down their windows.

Some parents have perfected the practise of voluntarily placing their children with what they believe to be wealthy families in exchange for monthly or annual payments.

The tragic ending of these plots is that the children are sold into servitude by their wealthy families.

Tuminu Zacheaus, a young boy of nine, earns money by washing cars during traffic jams.

He explained his plight as follows: “I used to attend a government primary school, until last year when my mother, who is the breadwinner of the house, asked that I stop schooling.

My friends and I are the same age, and they convinced me to start washing cars when I was bored at home.

On a good day, I can make as much as N1,000. We go from place to place, usually depending on the time of day and the amount of traffic.

We are a family of four, and I am the middle child. My older sisters are currently staying with an aunt they’ve never met. My mom washes clothes for a living, and my brother and I live with her.

Losing his mother at such a young age has been a devastating blow to 12-year-old Lukman Kamoru, who must now perform a variety of menial tasks to make ends meet.

There is no mother in my life. My father and stepmother are my primary carers. My dad works as a garage collector and has little time for me. Once a week, thrice a week, he’s home. The recent hike in transport costs, however, has forced him to reduce his visits home to once per week. I’ve been living hand to mouth and not in school for the past five to two years.

My stepmother has two children and makes a living as a water vendor. Once in a while she’ll even feed me.

I’ve only recently taken to begging in order to stave off starvation. I’ve had to survive by washing cars in traffic jams before. Kids my age and older are involved in this activity. But traffic jams don’t happen every day, so I’ve taken to begging because nobody would hire a kid my age.

It ranges from N500 to N800 per day. Since nobody is willing to help me out, my income has dropped to below N500.

I dropped out of school and learned to make ends meet on the streets. I oftentimes skip going home. Nearer to this area, I sleep on tables in front of a shop or on the floor of the market.

Monsurat Adekanju, age 8, attends a government primary school but is required to sell dried fish every day (including weekends) after class.

I go to a public elementary school. My older brother and I sell dry fish to support our family every day. She claimed the money would go towards our rent, utilities, clothing, and food.

My mum is a dry fish saleswoman, too.

According to the 2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) and National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS) conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, 31% of children aged 5-17 were involved in child labour, and 27% of children aged 5-17 were involved in economic activities beyond their age-specific threshold.

The bureau also reported that 29% of children aged 5-17 were engaged in hazardous occupations, such as carrying heavy loads, being exposed to extreme cold, heat, or humidity, or working with dangerous tools or heavy machinery.

In a report from 2020, the International Labour Organisation found that 15 million children in West Africa were working. This number was highest in Nigeria.

Imagine how much of that group would have grown as people’s standard of living in Nigeria has steadily declined.

Human rights activist and founder of the Ambassador for Peace and Enlightenment Foundation Prince Ichie has observed that the number of children working has increased, and that the wealthy are forced to hide their embarrassment and resort to begging.

The use of children as labourers is steadily rising. There are a lot of kids who have to quit school and start hawking to make ends meet.

Some of them are even begging now. Most of their parents have become commercial or executive beggars because they can’t make ends meet in today’s economy. It’s getting really difficult.

A woman was recently taken into custody in Idumota for using children as labour. This lady recruits youngsters (around 6 and 7 years old) to be her apprentices. They travel great distances by toting boxes of goods on their heads. Not this, though. While working so hard, the woman struck them with anything she could find. If they don’t cry when she hits them, she bites them. However, the news of her capture brought me great joy. Only one in a million or so.

Some families, you see, hand their kids over to slave owners.

We have captured a large number of them, but the economic situation in Nigeria continues to deteriorate.

The new economic policies are harmful to regular people. Impoverishes society as a whole. The daily phone calls I receive from concerned citizens detailing the rise of child labour and charity appeals are disheartening. Many people are losing their lives due to a lack of food. How many people can the minimum wage of N30,000 support in this country?

“The rise in fuel costs is another factor in falling living standards across the country. Everything’s more expensive now.

It’s challenging for a family to afford even a single square meal, much less a healthy diet.

It’s true that conditions in Nigeria are worsening and causing widespread confusion. We have no idea what is going on. Every day, we wake up with the hope that things will be better than they were during the eight years of the previous administration’s fruitless rule.