Why people in Africa’s most populous country are risking their lives for holiday handouts

Abuja, Nigeria —  Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling during the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. At least 35 children were killed in southwestern Oyo state on Wednesday. And on Saturday, 22 people died in southeastern Anambra state while 10 died in the capital, Abuja, where more than 1,000 people had gathered at a church to receive clothes and food. Here are some issues facing Nigerians. Inflation at a 28-year high “There is hunger in this Nigeria. Every

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