{"id":546,"date":"2007-01-19T16:26:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/01\/19\/working-in-ibadan\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T16:53:24","slug":"working-in-ibadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/01\/19\/working-in-ibadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in Ibadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a week ago I travelled to Ibadan with my colleague Niyi.  We were doing some work at NTI&#8217;s South-West zonal office, installing some software we had written.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/IbadanJan07\/IbadanRoundabout_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/IbadanJan07\/IbadanRoundabout_t.jpg\" alt=\"A roundabout with dual carriageway going overhead.  Buses and taxis are picking up passengers all around.\" title=\"One of the major roundabouts and public transport hubs in Ibadan.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/IbadanJan07\/OyoStateLuxuriousBusTerminal_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/IbadanJan07\/OyoStateLuxuriousBusTerminal_t.jpg\" alt=\"A large, newish concrete building painted maroon and cream.  It seems to be getting a bit run down, grass is sprouting through the paving.\" title=\"Oyo State Luxurious Bus Terminal, the buses just use the car park beside it.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/IbadanJan07\/BusCoveredInBlood_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/NTI\/IbadanJan07\/BusCoveredInBlood_t.jpg\" alt=\"'This bus is covered with the blood of Jesus'\" title=\"Sign in the front of the ABC Transport bus to Abuja.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn 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 &#8220;Oyo State Luxurious Bus Terminal&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that somebody is spreading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caltrop\">caltrops<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a week ago I travelled to Ibadan with my colleague Niyi. We were doing some work at NTI&#8217;s South-West zonal office, installing some software we had written. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}