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Nigeria street kids battle to survive - 30 July 2008

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Despite Nigeria's massive oil wealth thousands of homeless children live on the streets of the capital Lagos. Many take marijuana to stave off hunger and to help them fall asleep.

Haru Mutasa reports.

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  • i thought marijuana gives munchies which makes them hungrier...

  • I don't get it.. hard to believe, but seeing is believing. Nigeria gets billions of dollars yearly, so where does the money goes. In the pockets of corrupt government officials and politicians. They have no conscience. how do they sleep? children living in hese conditions, hungry, homeless and begging to survive, no school, no social services...SAD & SHAMEFUL, feel bad for the children, government unfit to run the country. Without the children the country has no future!!!!

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  • Smoke weed to NOT feel hungry?????It makes you eat!Thats why it is given and suggested to Cancer patients.Get better informed.

  • @silentswan12 I haven't changed my views, my views have always been the same. It's just that i saw him being a racist pig, so i felt that i should be racist towards him (now i know that, that is no way to respond to those kinds of people). I honestly didn't mean what i said when it came to the prejudice remarks, he just made me mad. =p

  • @feuchster ik your comment was like 2 years ago but i seriously hope u have changed your views since then because wht u said was very evil and disgusting.

  • Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.....

  • @Wonderful81 Usually girls don't run away like boys. It's harder for a girl to make it on her own on the streets, they tend to bear their home situation until they grow up.

    Also, if a girl does run away and goes into prostitution, she probably makes more than the boys would make and can afford not to have to sleep on the beach.

  • what do u mean marijuana jdont make them hungry?

  • what do you mean 'dont feel hungry' ... nigerians dont get the munchies... ??

  • @mela234candy

    obviously indaca head highs they probibly trip the fuck out mate!

  • @1peacefullmind because other fat countries come over...get it for a small price..dont pay the africans for anything and walk away scott free....just like with the middle east...free oil

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