The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory

The Guardian reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with The Guardian, which released it. 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 experience. Picture it: thousands of girls from across the country, each bearing a suitcase or two of a term’s worth of “provisions” – cornflakes, sugar cubes, powdered milk, hot chocolate powder, and so on. All it took was one or two careless girls giving the rats a taste of the exotic and they became among the most well-fed rats in the country, enjoying a steady stream of delicious teenage-girl snacks. I will never forget the sight of rats – six or seven deep – congregating at dusk on the scraggly lawn next to my… Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/27/the-pest-ill-never-forget-rats-stood-six-seven-deep-beside-dormitory