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2007-01-19

Working in Ibadan

Filed under: travel,VSO — kevin @ 16:26

Just over a week ago I travelled to Ibadan with my colleague Niyi. We were doing some work at NTI’s South-West zonal office, installing some software we had written.

A roundabout with dual carriageway going overhead.  Buses and taxis are picking up passengers all around. A large, newish concrete building painted maroon and cream.  It seems to be getting a bit run down, grass is sprouting through the paving. 'This bus is covered with the blood of Jesus'
On the left is one of the major junctions and public transport hubs in Ibadan, I was staying in a guesthouse nearby. In the middle is the “Oyo State Luxurious Bus Terminal”, very grand but barely used, the buses just sit in the car park beside it. The picture on the right is of the sign at the front of my ABC Transport bus up to Abuja.

I’m beginning to think that somebody is spreading caltrops on the expressway in Ibadan, the ABC bus arrived with a fist-sized hole in one of its tyres. This is not the first time my bus has had a puncture in Ibadan.

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