Skip to main content

MY LAGOS EXPERIENCE

My name is Ukwuoma Obele and I live in Lagos. I want to share my Lagos experience;

Lagos is known as the city that never sleeps. The day begins early in the morning around 5.30am. I used to work in a place called Ikeja(the capital of Lagos).So I would leave early at 5.30am to catch the BRT bus to avoid being late to work. I was living a distance of two hours from my place of work. Inside the BRT bus,there were a lot of people also on their way to their place of business or job. People were always in a hurry to catch the BRT bus because if one was late, one would have to stand. Sometimes I would sleep in the bus while commuting to work. I would get to work quite early because I took the BRT.

My job would sometimes take me to the island. I remember passing the third mainland bridge that took me to the island and the sight of the high rise buildings that indicated that one had reached the island; the center of economic activities for the whole nation. Lagos is peculiar in that some old buildings are often found existing alongside the high rise buildings with the market overflowing onto the road.

I also remember my office was in GRA very close to the popular Oshodi market where one could get all sorts of goods. I remember what Oshodi used to look like before former governor Fashola cleared Oshodi. I also remember Fashola banning bikes from GRA because they were messing up the drainage systems.

I remember coming back from work one particular day and boarding a danfo bus. The conductor asked me "owo da"
meaning where is your transport fare and I turned my bag to give him my money only for me to discover that my phone, money and withdrawal book had all disappeared from the back of my bag where I kept them carelessly. I had been robbed without even knowing when.

I remember seeing a beggar at the bus park one afternoon. He was hale and hearty but was badly dressed. He was asking for TFare to get to his destination. He wasn't asking for much so I gave him a little money only for me to come to the park on a different day to see this same beggar asking for TFare to get to the same destination. I was hurt but such is Lagos!

I remember going to the state university one afternoon to photocopy some documents and while crossing the road I stepped on human waste.urrgh! how digusting. But such is a familiar sight in lagos even in Ikeja especially on sidewalks and in drainages.

Lagos is home to all. From the rich and affluent who usually stay on the island to the comfortable down to the poor and struggling.

Once again, my name is Ukwuoma Obele and this is my Lagos experience.
PHOTO CREDIT: INTERNET

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE GAINS AND LOSSES OF THE ABSENCE OF MR PRESIDENT: BY UWAKWE ROLAND.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been absent from duty since the last few months on a purported medical checkup in London. Good a thing he legally transferred power to the Vice President who is now the acting President, this is unlike the imbroglio that played out during Yar’adua’s time when the National Assembly had to invoke the doctrine of necessity so as to effectively transfer power to then Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. The problem is that even as an acting President, Yemi Osinbanjo has limited powers to fully assume responsibility as the commander in chief, this is because most of the big government functionaries may still owe their loyalty to Mr President, couple with this, Buhari appointed people of his like minds who may not comfortably work with the acting President that will want to bring his knowledge of law and practice into governance. Hence the long absence of Mr President may eventually result to a slow down of democratic dividends. The above ...
Post a Comment
Read more

LOVE IS OVERRATED

We often mistake lust for love and many people mistake infatuation for true love. So many people preach that if you are no longer happy in a marriage then you should just call it quits. How about telling people to remember what made them happy in the first place and work on getting back to that place. A man wakes up in the morning and tells his wife he wants a divorce because he has fallen in love with someone else even when children are involved. The fact that you once proposed marriage to a person means you once considered her above every woman, how then do you discover years into the marriage that you love another? Especially after having kids. You probably have seen a slimmer woman or a pretty face or a sexy woman and concluded that you now have a new love. The desire for something new is not usually love but an attraction which can be classified as lust or infatuation. Any time you put your new flame above your children, then you know that you are deep in lust. Sex is an integra...
Post a Comment
Read more

RAPE, ITS JUSTIFICATION AND VICTIM SHAMING

It's sad that this is a world where things are not perfect but isn't that why we have laws; to correct the ills in society? I read today on a blog about a filmmaker who said that "nonviolent rape" should be legalized and that the reason rapists were raping girls was because they were sexually frustrated and that girls should accept it and even prepare themselves for it by carrying condoms and cooperating with their rapists. In fact it is clear that civilization is beyond running water and having flushable toilets, a lot of minds are still in a dark place. Before you join the number of people condemning him, think of how you shame victims of rape by suggesting that somehow they did something to provoke the animal instinct in the rapist. The dust hasn't settled yet on the case of Busola Dakolo and Biodun Fatoyinbo where an Abuja high court struck out the case and called an abuse of court processes and said it was statue barred. They were irregularities as cited by ...
Post a Comment
Read more