How Far Now? (Nigerian Broken English for "How are you doing?") Arrived into Lagos, Nigeria on Monday from Cairo (after going to bed at 1 am to witness the European Soccer Championships and getting up at 2 am to catch a 6 am flight). We took a puddle jumper to Abuja and met up with our man Abbas Abubakar at the airport. That night we ate a traditional Nigerian meal with Abbas' boss at his home. The meal included Mui Mui (pounded yam), Chicken Pepper Soup (didn't affect us then, but our paying the price dearly now), Elephant Fish and potatoes. [View Full Entry]

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Just starting out Actually the location is Bonny Island, just oustide of Port Harcourt and yes it is an Island. I've been working here for 2 and bit years in the Oil and Gas Construction Industry. [View Full Entry]

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Nigeria, Nigeria. This has been the hardest blog entry to write. I don't want to sound like the peace-and-love Africa geek, raving on about how friendly a country that most people hate is, but I think the enforced extension of our stay in Nigeria allowed us to see a different side of it. Most people travelling through West Africa try to spend as little time as possible in Nigeria due to the country's formidable reputation. Some of the most corrupt officials in the world man the road blocks, crime is rampant in Lagos and other parts of the south, and violence [View Full Entry]

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Referring to the title - well, you could first of all get yourself and your mode of transportation to somewhere in Nigeria where you can fix it.....lets try the capital city of Abuja. After spending the night in Ekom I got up on my Birthday before 5am and walked to the bus/taxi stop (they call them Parks here, i.e. Taxi Park) to organise transport to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Still with no internet access that was our best guess as to where they might have parts or at least parts could be sent to us. Some taxi drivers suggested that [View Full Entry]

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Nothing can prepare you for Lagos. It is an overwhelming, claustrophobic city and a dramatic introduction to Africa. The best word to describe Lagos is …chaos. The roads are something else. There are no traffic lights, stop signs or roundabouts, so every intersection is a mess and traffic slows to a crawl at each one as cars “merge”, inches apart. Drivers pay little attention to lane markings, where they exist, and have little hesitation in driving off-road to gain an advantage. Car horns sound constantly as thousands of cars, buses, bikes and pedestrians contend for the same patch of road. Buses [View Full Entry]

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Overshot the border as there were no signposts, we got to Nigeria without getting stamped so we had to go back. This is in Ilara, a border town, while our passports are being processed we had truck lunch, once through we tried to change money in town but wont change dollars for us so we moved on, Not one minute later we got stopped by Immigration checkpoint and there will be 8 more that afternoon, unbelievable, most of the time we have to show our passports and officials going up the back of the truck to check us out, Sometimes we [View Full Entry]

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One of the real bright spots that we encountered in Nigeria was the Drill Ranch conservation project in the Afi Mountains. Drill Monkeys are one of the most endangered monkey species due to hunting and habitat destruction. The conservation project has a breeding and re-hab centre in Calabar and then the Monkeys are taken to the Drill Ranch in the rain forest of the Afi Mountains where they are prepared to be released back into the wild. The project employs local people and interacts with the nearby villages by using local produce to feed the animals. They truely are doing some [View Full Entry]

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This is taken directly from my journal to help give you an idea... "...Yestaurday I saw a dead body in the road. What shocked me so much about it; was that it was in the middle of the street in Ibadan and obviously the man had been run over, and nobody seems to care. Nobody!" To me, I think what will I will remember most about Nigeria is....the pictures we didn't/couldn't take such as: the numerous police check points, the old abandoned gas stations, the dead body, rolled over vehicles, rusted, burned vehicles along the roads, over turned sheep transport truck [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to my page. I want to do something different with this page. My yarns would be in pidgin English. For those who will want to learn pidgin English this would be a good avenue. About mysel: Dem born me some 35years ago. I be hussler. I sabi my job well well. I go skool for Unifasiti of NAIJA for Nsukka. I learn Matimatiks n Komputer 4 skool. I dey travel like river. I sabi speak Queens English,small Francais and i fit make some sentences 4 Chinese(shinko),Russian and Italo. I don go China,Japan,Ghana,Togo,Hong Kong. I go still travel this month. 4 [View Full Entry]

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OK, I'm posting this really late so some of these aren't terribly new, but here in Calabar 'tigs dey happen-o!' While most outgoing governors here are busy planning to leave the country, there is some nontrivial stuff being unveiled as Mr Duke prepares to leave office. Well done! [View Full Entry]

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