2 hours ago · Nigeria
The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Nigeria. The first report grouped here was at 27 Oct 2026, 07:00 UTC. The headline in use is “The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became the most well-fed animals imaginable I’ve written a fair amount about my boarding school years in Nigeria in the 90s, but never about the rats that accompanied my school…
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The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory
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