Nigeria: The Double Lives of Abuja Workers

28 September 2008

Elizabeth Ugah and Joyce Ogbodo — For most people, Abuja is exclusively for the rich as it would cost much money to live within the splendid capital city. As a result, scores of working class people are pushed out of the city to live as far away as Suleja, in neighbouring Niger State, Masaka in Nasarawa State and so many other slum towns along Keffi-Abuja road, Abuja Lokoja road as well as along Kaduna Abuja road.

In the mornings, people from all the directions cram on buses and swarm into Abuja for their various places of work and businesses. In evenings too, the workers or businessmen scramble for buses and taxis to get back to their up town places.

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