Nigeria Experience

mr hillary

Advantages: Good chinese restuarants, people...
Disadvantages: travel, corruption, dangerous, accomodation, smell...

I travel to Lagos 3 times a year for work and hate it. When arriving at murtula muhammed airport you instantly realise that you have just entered a world totally different to UK. The place smells pretty bad and there is rubbish everywhere, i mean literally everywhere. You cannot avoid it. You think of the pressure we are put under in the UK to comply with enviromentally friendly regulations etc after visiting Lagos you soon begin to think whats the ...
...streets and roads of Lagos to fill every litter bin in the UK one thousand times i am sure. There are huge holes in the middle of all the roads. You have to be driven everywhere as if you don't know where all the holes are you could have a bad accident. The roads are so dangerous and conjested that you have to allow hours for travel. Every journey is a nightmare as you narrowly avoid collisions, cars cutting in from every angle. Black smoke bellows ...

hilsey 05.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Lagos (Nigeria)

ABUJA- THE NEW AND IMPROVED LAGOS OF NIGERIA

Advantages: CLEAN, LOW CRIME, GOOD TOURIST ATTRACTION, STATE OF THE ART INFRASTRUCTURE
Disadvantages: RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE AND A DEVELOPING ENETERTAINMENT SCENE

...of the country’s Middle Belt, Abuja is covered mainly with savannah grassland but there are patches of rainforest. There are two seasons, the hot and dry harmattan (November to March) and the rainy season (April to October). The weather is a bit peculiar as there have been hailstorms and extremities of temperatures within the same day; boiling hot in the day and very cold in the night almost like a desert. The weather can change at the drop of a ...
...water tanks and generators. Abuja has a very good selection of hotels; the famous Nicon Hilton and Sheraton are very good. I have slept in the Nicon Hilton and the room service was good as well as the food. The swimming pool is very big and there is a mini zoo within the grounds. I have eaten from lunch several times in Sheraton and there was a wide variety of Continental as well as African foods. These hotels are worth every naira you spend on ...

dabellaq 20.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Abuja (Nigeria)

Nigeria - Land of Internet Crime?

Advantages: Different
Disadvantages: Dangerous

Nigeria, so many people have a bad view of people from this place, a typical example of the minority taring the majority, but for the few interent scammers, and fraudsters who use the country as a safe haven, you really should look beyond the cloak! Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin ...
...Niger in the north. Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the south. The capital city is Abuja. The country itself harbours many dangers, and as man who tends not to pay danger money to the would be mafia style hi-jackers who stop your jeep and threaten you with a sharpened coke can, I take most of them with a pinch of salt. Sure, if the gangs dont get you, the Malaria ridden mosquito will, heres praying the gangs ...

gt5952 20.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of General: Nigeria

Lagos: the real capital of Nigeria!!!

Advantages: Bubbling city, pleasant places of interest
Disadvantages: Traffic Jams, over populated, police!!!

...resilient to survive here. Lagos was formerly the capital of Nigeria, which happens to be the most populated country in the whole of Africa. It is even said that one in every black person is a Nigerian. During the Military rule in the 80;s though, the capital was moved to Abuja, much further inland. Lagos is by the Atlantic ocean, on the south west of the country. As any big metroplex would, it boasts of its highways, fly-overs, bridges, skyscrapers ...
...beaches to go to and Lagos has quite a few. there or near there you can get some nice african arts and crafts. Victoria Island houses some of the nice malls and shopping outlets where i don''t think you'll miss anything from over here. You must know something about Nigerians; they have a very good taste for good things. this is evidenced by the many mansions (yes, you heard me) all over the place. Take a drive through Ikoyi, Victoria Island and and ...

wailor 30.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Lagos (Nigeria)

Nigeria: Not even a Nation?

Advantages: A destination to impress your friends with
Disadvantages: Dangerous and unpleasant.

The definition of a nation: Nation n. A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. With respect to the other two posters here, both of whom I suspect are Nigerian and possibly involved in the tourist industry, the Nigeria encountered by non-nigerians does not fulfill these criteria. Nigeria is as much a nation as Yugoslavia or Israel. It is divided by ...
...on all scales - from mass killings and gunfights through kidnappings to two individuals fighting in a bar. I have visited Nigeria 3 times whilst employed by a survey company connected to the oil industry, aand although I went with an open mind, and have enjoyed time in Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Cameroon, Nigeria is a bit... well.... different. Nigeria is Located in West Africa, in an area known as "the armpit of Africa" due to... well, officially ...

jimh1 07.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of General: Nigeria