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 […]