Lagos: Reaction trails demolition of Alaba Rago Market

Alaba Rago Market

The Alaba Rago market, one of the major markets where Northerners carry out their businesses without harming anyone, was demolished between Tuesday and yesterday. A part of Alaba International Market, Alaba Rago, (rago tranlates to ram in Hausa), is primarily a livestock market which receives perhaps the largest of rams and goats transported from northern Nigeria into Lagos. While the Alaba Internati onal, also known as Alaba Electronics, is dominated by the highly enterprising and resilient Igbos, the Alaba Rago is a sort of economic community of Hausas in Lagos.The northerners not…

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