Wednesday. It wasn’t quite ten minutes after the journey to Berger commenced that I heard sniffing from the back seat. A slight headache from reading till late was why I’d left the radio off, which meant the sound carried quite clearly to my ears, but being at a red light meant I could steal a peek over my shoulders. Something was obviously wrong because the passenger was bent over with his head in his hands, a man who had been…
Thursday. Thursday mornings in Lagos are different, as any observant resident will tell you. Markets in the metropolis have their sanitation exercise on Thursday and most traders leave home much later than they would on normal days. Since trading doesn’t start till 10 a.m. when the sanitation is over, buyers also stay away, and the combination of both factors causes a significant reduction in the volume of road traffic. I left home quite early on Thursday to fully utilize…
Photo Credits – Google Tuesday. I moved the car forward a few inches and stopped again, then shifted the gear to park and relaxed. Traffic was horrendous and all I wanted to do was put my head down somewhere cool and sleep. Yesterday’s late night social media frenzy was back to haunt me big time and were it not for the lure of cash I would have stayed in bed at home. My pocket, however, has other plans, so here…