Naija Experience!!!!!!

Me in the life jacket on the "speed canoe"

Langbasa-the residents pelt the canoe passengers with stones sometimes because the canoe engine vibrates thorough the water which alos makes the houses vibrate. So the canoe rower/minder leaves the Langbasa jetty quietly.



As I stated in my last post, I went to 9ja on New Year's Day on Virgin Atlantic. When we got to 9ja, we couldn't land due to bad weather conditions so the plane was diverted to Abuja I dozed off while reading John Grisham's book -The Appeal when I woke up, we had landed so I looked out the window and saw this nice oil tanker and noticed that the tarmac looked very nice and neat. Just as I was still lost in my thought, my neighbor. (my seat partner) said "we're in Abuja". I was like hmm no wonder the place looked neat . He then told me that the reason why the flight was diverted. Better safe than sorry you'll say.
We finally landed in Lagos around 11.30 and by the time I got my luggage, the ground staff either in London or Lagos had ripped my bag and helped themselves to 6kilos of my personal effects!! no cause for alarm I'm making a claim.
I enjoyed the rest of my stay in 9ja. I took a boat/canoe ride from one side of Bayeku in Ikorodu to Langbasa, Lekki/Ajah.What an experience that was. I hope and pray that Gov. Fashola would rebuild a modern jetty as its a very quick means of linking the Island from Ikorodu. It only took 12 minutes a journey that would have taken me 1 hour and a half driving. I drove
The next time I go to 9ja, I'll be exploring more the rural areas.

Being Thankful!!!

I wish you all a happy New Year. I've been busy doing this and that last year. Well I'm back now after spending the first week of New Year in Naija. Thankfully I got back in one piece.
On 8th January 2008 at about 6.30am on my way to the Murtala Mohammed Airport, as my cousin turned into Kuidirat Abiola Way from Oregun, I noticed that something wasn't right so thinking out loud I said “why are those cars turning round”. Suddenly, the car in front of us was reversing at a high speed so I told my cousin to be careful before I could finish the sentence, I heard a loud bang. The car had reversed into our car. I got out of the car to assess the damage then an okada rider came from the opposite direction (Opebi) with some other motorists then my cousin asked what was happening the answer was that the were armed robbers operating on that road (Kudirat Abiola Way). My cousin quickly put the gear into reverse then I found a big space where he could turn round I quickly told him to seize the opportunity to turn the car round rather than reverse. Leaving the scene, I could see the armed robber’s car parked in the middle of the road with the hazard lights flashing.
My cousin now asked where he should go. I directed him to go through Ojota rather than Obafemi Awolowo way as we did know what was happening at Allen junction. We were able to properly assess the damage when we got to the airport. The driver’s side of the front bumper had been bashed in but THANK GOD!!!!!!!!