Protea Hotel Ikeja Lagos
42/44 Isaac John Street, GRA, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria
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My stay in Lagos, Nigeria
... and we should fill up on gas. Mind you, we pre-paid our driver 10,000 naira a day and less than 15 minutes in his car we were filling it up with gas (8,500 naira). The gas station was across from a public market and I was frightened. It's just so overwhelmingly run-down and action packed that it's hard to get your barrings right away.
Once we made it to our rented apartment I felt so relieved. We went through a company called, "Make It *****ia," to ...
Minor drama unfolds in Sydney town
... fridge, gas hob and electric oven). The laundry has a washing machine and dryer. Outside the house: a large garden, carport, porch and outdoor furniture.
If you are interested in more information, please send me a message.
Only contact me if you are a geniune cat lover (and not allergic to them) and prepared to share your bed.
Looking for: A mature person, preferably someone who has owned there ...
First days in Nigeria!
... was okay. In general, I feel like the long lost heathen cousin from America. No one likes my locs, and everyone thinks my nose ring is bizarre. Which is kind of funny, I guess, since everyone here has weave, and I can't stand weave. (No offense yall.) But at the same time, it's nice to meet family members who have the same last name as me, who can pronounce my name correctly (I mean, usually I don't even pronounce my name correctly) and who can tell me ...
Living la vida Lagos!
... the window down onto mountains, rain forests, lakes, ocean etc and guess where they actually are on the map. On the flight from Johannesburg to Lagos we got treated with a path over the Okavango, then right over Luanda- looking down you could see the cranes and the massive development - there easily was 100 ships waiting to enter the port. Then just as the sun goes down and you think it is all over. Hundreds of flames light up the ocean from the ...
The Okada
... infrastructure woefully inadequate for the weight of traffic wishing to use it. Where it does exist, it is rarely smooth, but offers a sometimes car swallowing pot hole ridden ride. The Okada (Ohh-car-dar) saw a chance to offer fare paying passengers a quick, lane splitting option to buses and cars.
Okada are men and their motorcycles that act as cheap and accessible transport in a town that has seen rapid growth and rising poverty levels. ...



