{
  "id": 2333297,
  "title": "Treat ‘iron condemn’ operators as terrorists or watch the bridges fall, By Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/treat-iron-condemn-operators-as-terrorists-or-watch-the-bridges-fall",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-21T07:57:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/904428-treat-iron-condemn-operators-as-terrorists-or-watch-the-bridges-fall-by-chukwuemerie-uduchukwu.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The time has come for governments at every level in Nigeria to confront a destructive force that has long operated in plain sight under the guise of informal scrap collection. Those who call themselves iron condemn operators, roaming the streets of Abuja, Lagos, and other major cities, are no longer mere scavengers scraping a living […] The post Treat ‘iron condemn’ operators as terrorists or…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}