Ikorodu road...

This is the crazy route I take to work, anytime I am working in Lagos, even though I work here most times, sometimes I wish I could be some where I could at least drive myself around.I cant help but marvel at the different activities that take place on this long stretch.Every day as my danfo eats up the distance to my office and I'm squeezed between body smells and noise,I constantly remind myself that no two days are ever the same here, from the filth and stench, to the reckless drivers, the bus conductors and area boys who seem to be permanently high on something illegal perched like hawks on buses,the beggers in the traffic, the magazine and newspaper hawkers, the gala and plantain chips boys, the Hausa boys selling irish potatoes and friend rice vegetables ( yes oo) and not left out are the hawkers who sell household utensils and other basic household amenities in the traffic close to St Agnes Catholic Church. Activities on the two sides of the road are different with the only constant being the LATSMA and occasional police men. Not Left out is the glorifying BRT lanes with their large blue and red buses,which are a pictoral representation of the late Fela Anikpulapo's song "suffering and smiling" with 50 sitting and 100 standing!! Even after making the already small roads smaller by creating a coprridor for them with concrete demarcators, these large leviethans still choose to squeeze onto the small lanes with regular vehicles.

Ironically this is actually the only time I find to read my favourite magazines and listen to music with my ear phones as I try to shut the craziness out on this therapeutic morning ride as I try to subconsiously aborb the craziness which is the adrenalin to start my day.

Despite the odds and having lived on British soil for a few years, I still love Nigeria which is and would always be home as here I am actually in touch with reality and for my career theres no better place than to be face to face with the problems at hand... abeg I don tire FOR NOW oo. Most of my talking here would be done in pictures.(I'LL GIST U MORE LATER)