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POWA Complex Demolition: Ikeja traders struggle to rebuild amidst uncertainty, appeal for temporary settlement

POWA Complex Demolition: Ikeja traders struggle to rebuild amidst uncertainty, appeal for temporary settlement

While many traders were recounting their end-of-the-year profits, the POWA shop owners ended the year with a heavy heart and huge loss worth millions of naira, resuming the new year with uncertainty.

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Part of the demolished POWA shopping complex site. Credit: Omon Okhuevbie/The Record.

On Friday, January 12, Mr. Adebanjo Akinola*, a laptop trader at Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos, was shocked to discover the Police Officers’ Wives Association Shopping (POWA) Complex, popularly known as Mega City, in debris.

Akinola travelled to his hometown for the festivit…

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