THE DOWNTRODDEN MARKET THAT FEEDS THE POOR & ELITE OF NIGER DELTA PEOPLE OF NIGERIA
African Vogue As you climb the Mbiama Bridge heading towards Warri in the heart of the Delta; a common boundary between Rivers State and Bayelsa State in south-South part of Nigeria lays the renowned Mbiama Market. The market is on the forgotten section of the east west road that even the rush work fever during Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s reign could not affect despite being less than four kilometres meters from the Former Presidents State and it is also the section the President must pass through by road if he is going to his home town from the Port Harcourt airport. The most obvious sign of the Market before getting to the market if you are new to this part of the world is the long queues of cars moving at a snail pace from two directions every market day . Either coming from Warri or Port Harcourt, the traffic from Warri usually starts fifty meters before the famous Yenagoa junction (Militants demonstration ground) which is also about hundred meters befo...