Coalition of Civil Society rally in Lagos, Nigeria, in support of Governor Rotimi Amaechi,of River State.

Prof Wole Soyinka with Femi Falana (SAN) (L) at a press conference today came down heavily on President Good luck Jonathan and his wife, Patience describing the first lady...

: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (left) interacting with a patient shortly after commissioning the Burns and Trauma Centre, Gbagada, the Burns and Trauma Centre at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. With him are Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris (2^nd left), Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Professor Adewale Oke (2^nd right) and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Femi Olugbile (right).

STREET KIDS

 Across the Nigeria, there are categories of children who neither feel good nor happy. Their outlook paints a good picture of their state of helplessness.

The children  appear unkempt and totally hopeless regarding their future. In their unclean clothes, they find homes in the most filthy and awkward places like abandoned buildings, under overhead bridges and streets.

. Usually, they retire to these “abodes” at dusk and dash out early in the morning before the prying eyes of security agents or the rightful owners of the structures turn out for business. In Nigeria, the future of Kids most especially the one the streets, their future is very tiny to be successful in life.

Idowu Ogunleye, a Photojournalist who documents Street Kids across my country Nigeria, keep asking, what are the future of this Street Kids.

The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported in May 2005 that over 7.3 million Nigerian children of school age were not in schools. This ugly trend has its own social consequences, one of which is the spiraling proportion of street urchins in the major towns and cities of Nigeria.