Caboose

Abuja is a famously dull city and most of the time it seems to be government policy to keep it that way. The minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has been responsible for demolishing most of the (admittedly illegally-built) buildings that formerly provided useful services to the inhabitants of the city.

Next month the government have organised something more constructive, the Abuja Carnival, organised by the team responsible for the Notting Hill Carnival in London.