Slaughterman David Partridge can’t answer when I ask what his abattoir smells like. “I can’t smell anything,” he explains, suggesting, slightly irritably, that once I get in there, I should tell him.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Municipal Archives brings you the history of the Municipal Abattoir, the official city slaughterhouse. It might seem strange to citizens today, but a municipal ...

Because of the nature of the job done there, an abbattoir is expected to be messy,but the operators are expected to make it clean at all times. It seems this is not so with the Agege,Lagos abbattoir, ...