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Ladi Kwali Way Abuja, Nigeria, 9-461-2000
26th - The *****ian bord** post took some time to pass through, but as th**e was a small village/town beside it we could pass the time by. The funny thing was that this crossing v**y rarely sees any tourists. Rob was speaking to a local in his 20s who had nev** seen a white p**son in the area before us. So it was a bit strange for them and for us especially when you have 30 or so locals watching you drink cokes or have 70 follow you around the market.
Upon leaving h**e we w**e ...
6am rise made all the hard** by it still being dark due to the clocks going forward one hour when we crossed the *****ia bord**. Long drive day as have some 450km to cov** in the hope of getting to Abuja tonight. Mum's been sitting in the back with us kids whilst various people take ov** h** role as navigator/note tak** up front with Jay. Oliv**'s up th**e today so have the luxury of 2 whole seats to myself ... just enough to enable me to curl up on my side and listen to music... until around...
Abuja, Nigeria oliveramberAft** our exciting and thrilling arrival into *****ia we headed straight for the capital city, Abuja, which is located pretty much in the middle of the nation and was built in the 1970's using oil money as a neutral capital equally placed between the v**y divided north and south of *****ia. As a quite new city, the buildings w**e relatively Ok and it had plenty of roads, paths, shopping centres, cinemas, and sup** markets. Howev**, besides a huge and impressively copp** topped mosque it has v...
Abuja, Nigeria sabenafrica
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The most populated country in Africa, with ov** 140 million, was approached with much hesitation - we expected many scams and annoying English-speaking touts/locals, howev** the north**n country areas in which we traveled provided so much more!!
Again, a diff**ent route in *****ia was und**taken, which proved a highlight. As soon as we ent**ed the bord** at Chikanda, the bord** official ...
With all the press that *****ia gets for scams, kidnappings, corruption and gen**al disord** it was an amazing exp**ience crossing a remote bord** post from Benin to *****ia. Its extremely rare that tourists cross this bord**. One local commented that he had nev** in 20 years seen a white p**son in his town. The result was somewhat chaos. At this point I knew what a rockstar or royalty felt when the mass of people go ...
Abuja, Nigeria bradmccartney... than life". A embaixada deu mais uma bandeira com o pedido dos vistos, nomeadamente com o do Gabão onde só pediram 3 dias a começar do dia 13. Dia 13 foi o dia em que recebi o passaporte e ainda me faltava atravessar até ao sul da Nigéria e todo os Camarões antes de chegar ao Gabão. Não foi lá muito racional, mas é naquela base, esqueçamos isso. A Nigéria foi um país particular, mas s**ia muito injusto da minha parte julgar o país inteiro pelos maus elementos que também l ...
Abuja, Nigeria ikono... hair, which makes it hard** t* rec*gnise. S* I think th**e is s*mething t* the 'we black all l**k the same t* y*u white pe*ple' phrase, as hear is s*mething that makes it eas** t* rec*gnise pe*ple and white pe*ple usually have the same hairstyle f*r a l*ng time, I have had mine f*r *v** ten years n*w at least. But I will sum up that when I get back I guess. M*nday is the *fficial 17 May celebrati*n at the ambassad*r's place s* I h*pe they have s*me g**d f**d, and n*t just chicken.
Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria oyvindsandve... a reasonable amount to lose. I started of pretty good, and was soon in 350 $, but I got to eag**, and in stead of my usual system wh**e I win small pots the whole time, I started loosing some big hands. And not surprisingly, two hours lat** I was broke aft** getting some bad 12 hands (worst you can get). I think 'carma' wanted me to go home early and not get hooked on BJ again, as I only got THREE BJ in the time I played, which is remarkably little, almost incredible. It should ...
Abuja, Nigeria oyvindsandve... but for some reason I think that they are captured by the system, and they only see what they want to see. I invited a girl for the dinn**, Hawa, who I meet at Eggheads party. The dinn** started at nine aft** we had waited for ages for one of the senators who w**e getting the award. It was the West African lead**ship award c**emony that was awarded, and it was actually a big thing. Three senator w**e th**e and a bunch of media ...
Abuja, Nigeria oyvindsandve... back to the office, and she asked this guy in the office if she he could drive h** back, but he suggested that they took the book to his place which was clos**. When they got th**e, he tried to make a move on h**, and when she refused, he refused to drive h** back or take the books to the office. Luckily, someone from the office picked h** up, but even if she was crying, she did not tell anyone. This might not seem as much, but ...
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