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Continued from last week........ Good for us the truck passed and we followed after, as time went by, hunger kicked in, the initial plan was to stop and eat but with the state of the road and congestion, its a no no. Somehow we had to find a way to eat. Envisaging the trip with the intent of making it a memorable one, the women had taken time to wake up as early as 3am to prepare jollof rice and fried chicken. The food was more tasty and pleasing compared to jaga jaga road (lols), especially the fried chicken.I was tempted to ask for more chicken just as Oliver Twist would naturally  do. (lols) but had to restrain myself.....it was that tasty. I pondered on governance in my nation: the various mantras that had been coined to sway  us. I was deeply angry at unfulfilled promises and lies churned out on various media outlets promoting the progressive works of past and present administrations. I saw a nation probably still in the dark ages as a result of lack of planning and

Photo Credit: Larisa -K On November 24, 2018, necessity was laid upon me to visit the great ancient Benin City, the Edo state capital in Nigeria. The many brave stories I have heard about the city coupled with the fact of having a once upon a time close neighbour of mine hails from there. The more they told me about the city the more I secretly admired it and longed to visit there while I grew up in the brown roof city of Ibadan in Oyo state. Fast forward to now, my best friend from my time in Lagos is getting married and my presence has been requested to witness the ceremony. Gladly I looked forward to the journey, after all, a little owambe (celebration) is good for the body.  (lols) I wasn't going to travel alone, the plan was to join the rest of his family on the trip. So we took off in the early hours of Friday morning around 6:00am, we were seven in numbers. We immediately hit the road with so much adrenalin pumping in our system, we looked forward to an exciting journe