HOPEVISION CHILDREN SCHOOL, Ijora Badia
The community of Ijora Badia, on the railway line, in Apapa is a constellation of absurdity.
It is a melange of miscreants,
roughnecks, gangsters, fraudsters and prostitutes. It also harbours good people, who engage in provision of services,
such as hair dressing, pedicures and manicures as well as petty trading, among others.
This Lagos suburb is an enclave that stretches about 400 metres or thereabout along the railway line, which runs from
Ijora to Iddo. The environment is filthy with euglena-infested brackish lagoon, which, ostensibly, has the capacity to
harbour dangerous reptiles. The stagnant, brackish water laced with all kinds of refuse breeds mosquitoes in their
millions
THE HOME OF FEMALE SEXWORKERS
However, for somebody who entered the railway from the under bridge situated opposite the Nigeria Breweries in the
Orile-Iganmu area of the state, the first sight tells the entire story of what lies ahead. Just as one leaves the under bridge
and heads towards Ijora through the railway line, an array of ladies of easy virtue immediately comes to the fore. They
appear in their seductive mood, sitting and standing psychedelically in front of the make-shift wooden house of about
seven rooms erected just about 30 metres away from the railway line
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