Hello Friends,

I want to start by commending and appreciating the Steemitblog team for successfully completing the season 2 of the engagement challenge, and now we are in the season 3. This initiative has really promoted interaction in various steemit communities.
For this week, the Steem Venezuela community has brought a very interesting topic/task for us to do, and I appreciate the entire team.

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Relax and enjoy as I tell you about one of the biggest and busiest marketplace that's located at Yenagoa Bayelsa state, Nigeria.

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Bayelsa is the second largest oil producing state in my country, located in the southern part of Nigeria, a riverine state where over 80% of it land mass is cover with water. And Yenagoa is the capital city of Bayelsa state. People travel from various parts of the country down to Yenagoa for businesses, and other activities, because the state is a unique one.

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One major reason why this marketplace remains one of the busiest in my town is that . This means that people from far and neighbouring communities crosses this bridge to get to Yenagoa where the rate of business activities are higher. People from Famgba, Ikolo, Southern Ijaw, Brass, Nemba and even those outside the state, gather together under this bridge where various activities are carried out.

Basically, every business activities you could think of are been carried out in and around this marketplace. So as early as 5:00 AM, people would begin to prepare themselves for the days activities, because some goods travel all through the night, and usually arrives the shores of the Yenagoa river by 5:00 AM.

Normally, I usually visit the fish section of the market more often because every kind of fish I needed was found there. Today, I visited the plastic section of the market, where plastic items, pots and buckets are been sold. And I love the fact that I could get these items in bulk and cheaper with cheaper rates too.

The reason why people tend to often come to this marketplace is because, Items here are sold at cheaper rates, given the fact that sellers are very honest as possible to their customers for the fear of losing them to other traders who sell these same items.

Conclusion

Swali has remained one of the most popular marketplace in my city, and It still developing and so I know that within the nearest future they would be great improvement in that aspect.

I want to thank @hive-151446 and the entire @Steem Venezuela team for organizing such an interesting contest.
Am inviting @offia66, @drhira and @precious123, to check out this contest 👉 contest link

Note: All pictures are originally mine.