‘Tap current’: Female customers lament se£*ual harassment in open markets

 

Sharon Osaji writes about how women have continued to be targets of harassment in major markets in the country and the fight to break the cycle

It was Lolade Ishola’s first time at the Yaba Market in Lagos. The 18-year-old was in her second year at a private university when she and her friends decided to visit the market, popular for affordable women’s wear.

Passers-by afraid to rescue me after soldier shot me – Driver

 

A commercial bus driver, Sunday Bolaji, who was shot by a power-drunk soldier at Magboro Bus stop in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, narrates his ordeal to ABDULLATEEF FOWEWE

Can you explain how you were shot by a soldier?

On Saturday, June 24, I came out to meet a person that would give me the phone number of a customer I wanted to convey to Ibadan the following day (Sunday). So, as I got to Magboro that day, I parked my vehicle at the bus stop. I was, however, trekking along the road to meet the person when someone that looked like the leader of a group of soldiers called me and asked me who parked the vehicle.