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☆ Desperate flight, then misery in a camp for Nigerians displaced by floods
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Seun Sanni | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"They ate like people who need more, so like a father that I am I cannot go and join them," he said. NOT ENOUGH FOODThe camp in the school building in the village of Ogbogu now shelters about 600 displaced people whose homes are under water. People are so desperate they are cooking with chaff that would normally be thrown away after grinding cassava to make garri, a staple food. He and those who remained were sleeping outdoors as there was no space in any of the makeshift camps that had sprung up, he said. "Even when this is over, I know that there is no money now that I can use to buy something to eat.

An oil slick is seen on Santa Barbara creek, following an oil spill in Nembe, Bayelsa, Nigeria, November 25, 2021. "Hundreds of thousands of people (in Benin) organize their survival around this traffic," Boris Houenou, a Beninois economist said of the smuggling of Nigerian gasoline. NNPC recorded gasoline deliveries of 90 million litres a day in March and 83 million in April, Reuters calculations showed. 'CURIOUS CASE'Although the Nigerian government announced plans to remove the gasoline subsidy last year, it then backtracked in July, citing concerns over potential social unrest. And although gasoline is subsidised, the amount ordinary Nigerians pay at the pump remains higher than the set price.

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