Gembu, Nigeria to Banyo, Cameroon

My phone wasn’t fully charged in the morning. First I thought that my New Age cable is already broken, then I realized the power was off at night. At about 6:30am someone knocked at the door. Took me a while to realise that the person was knocking at my door, after all I was in […]

Bali, Nigeria to Gembu

I woke up at night when the light was cut off and the fan stopped working. I was all in sweat. Of course water was not running from the tap and I didn’t fill the bucket in the evening. Then, a muezzin started his chants and I was glad because I thought if was already […]

Ogoja to Bali, Nigeria

Bali in Nigeria is pronounced Bæli. For first time in long time I didn’t wake up by myself at 5am but an alarm clock woke me up at 5:30am. I was so sleepy I kept snoozing it until 6am. I took okada to the junction outside Ogoja, the one on the main road, N300. When […]

Calabar to Ogoja

I didn’t know if I wanted to leave Calabar. I thought I’d have to go to the bank and get some money or find a moneychanger, I didn’t know how long the trip to the border town of Gembu would take me, I reckoned two days if I was lucky, possibly three days, then crossing […]

A Saturday in Calabar

I got out of the room late. Everyone on the internet is praising a bakery that’s across the road from the hotel so I went there. Bought a ginger cake and a “golden bun”. Ginger cake didn’t even lie next to ginger. Golden bun needed coffee to dip it in. My hotel has a very […]

Benin City to Calabar: a day with AKTC

I found a website for a bus service I once used, not sure even when, 2008 or 2009, coming from Owerri to Calabar. ABC transport. It advertised a N6500 bus from Benin to Calabar at 11am. But when I walked around Benin City and asked around noone was able to tell if that’s true, the […]

Idanre to Benin City: there is art

I was woken up by a cockroach. It fell on my face sometime after 5am. I was in deep dream and I thought it was a grasshopper. I shook it onto the bedside where I thought I killed it with a pillow and threw it off bed. Only later when I looked for the grasshopper […]

Oshogbo to Idanre: beautiful hills

I woke up and it was raining. I went down to the hotel bar and asked for coffee. They had nescafé. N400, at least they gave me two sachets. I took okada to where transport to Akure was supposed to be. Akure is a capital of Ondo state. For N100 I was dropped on a […]

Lagos to Oshogbo: I know one hundred ways to ask for money

Mimy was so worried about me that she offered to drive me to Ojota Motor Park, where I could find bus to Oshogbo. We made an appointment at 8 and at 8:30am she picked me up from the petrol station next to my Lagos hotel. I also found out that I had a wife on […]

Happy new week in Lagos

People also wish you happy new week in Nigeria. Although I don’t know if it means they want something from you or they are just friendly. I waited until travel time shown by Google for the distance of 13kms to Ericsson office will decrease from 1hr 15min to something more bearable. After 9am the time […]