The Great Scramble For Patience Jonathan’s Rice

It was a gesture gone awry as hungry Nigerians “attacked” bags of rice donated by the President’s wife to the less privileged in Abuja. Photographs left show policemen battering the scrambling Nigerians at the International Conference Centre; then a policeman polices away his own bag of rice; and a Federal Road Safety Corps Marshall also takes his own. Right, an exhausted woman flattens out on the floor and two others cool down, perching atop their rice loot. All Photographs by FEMI IPAYE.