Child hawking is prevalent practice in Nigeria most major highway and streets are often flooded with emaciated children running often cars on shrunken legs and balancing boxes of pastries and cigarettes twice their size on their bobbleshead. The international labour organisation estimates in Nigeria about 14 million children between the ages of 5 and 15 are involved in a form of economic activity. But why a loss of education is the most cited side efforts hawking, the dangers aren’t just academic they are physical too.

