A Trip to Nigeria
Sep 8, 2018, 11:57 pm
#32
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Great report.
I worked in Lagos for six months in 1985, I've never been back but much of it doesn't seem to have changed. The pictures of LOS are exactly as I remember it and I can certainly remember being asked to 'help out' the security staff who you encountered passing through. My relief arriving intact at the BCal gate with the sign of the lion rampant above it usually brought on enough sense of relief to bring tears to my eyes. It's not somewhere I will ever go back to.
I worked in Lagos for six months in 1985, I've never been back but much of it doesn't seem to have changed. The pictures of LOS are exactly as I remember it and I can certainly remember being asked to 'help out' the security staff who you encountered passing through. My relief arriving intact at the BCal gate with the sign of the lion rampant above it usually brought on enough sense of relief to bring tears to my eyes. It's not somewhere I will ever go back to.
Thanks!
Sep 12, 2018, 8:40 am
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Dec 29, 2019, 8:14 am
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An excellent trip report. I worked in Nigeria (VI Lagos, Eket Akwa Ibom State, Abuja) 6 years and never saw most the things you have shown - guess I needed better hosts. I am always asked to return by my Nigerian friends I keep in contact with but the VISA process is a hassle. Agree with the pepper soup - it is very good as is the ram suya grilled down at Bar Beach in VI. Funny thing with Nigerian Customs in LOS which was a few people outside baggage stopping random people - The Nigerians at the time loved unlocked Nokia and Blackberry phones which I could get used cheaply in the US so I would bring 100 at a time wrapped in bricks of 10 back with me on my 4-5 annual return trips to the US. Was only stopped once and a 1000 naira later I was on my way.
Jan 3, 2020, 8:01 pm
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An excellent trip report. I worked in Nigeria (VI Lagos, Eket Akwa Ibom State, Abuja) 6 years and never saw most the things you have shown - guess I needed better hosts. I am always asked to return by my Nigerian friends I keep in contact with but the VISA process is a hassle. Agree with the pepper soup - it is very good as is the ram suya grilled down at Bar Beach in VI. Funny thing with Nigerian Customs in LOS which was a few people outside baggage stopping random people - The Nigerians at the time loved unlocked Nokia and Blackberry phones which I could get used cheaply in the US so I would bring 100 at a time wrapped in bricks of 10 back with me on my 4-5 annual return trips to the US. Was only stopped once and a 1000 naira later I was on my way.
Thanks. I tried getting Fred to take us to the planes, but the road was blocked as I guess it's an airport access road, so the tarmac view was as close as we were going to get.
