Me and Lagos again!
I have written about Lagos in the past. And I intended keeping quiet, if possible permanently. Unfortunately, Lagos has provoked me again into writing about her.
First, it became compulsory that we must visit Lagos because of two important appointments. However, even though we knew the dates for our the two appointments, we were unable to decide when to go. Unfortunately, one fell on a Saturday while the other was on the following Monday. We toyed with going on a Thursday so we could complete preparations for some things required for the Monday appointment. The Saturday appointment was a wedding. We thought that both events could be conveniently accommodated if we left on Thursday, and in a relaxed manner too! The worry that went into our heads were more than the journey we had planned to Lagos.
Finally, for the fears of our two friends Lagos 'mosquitoes and the heat' after studying the weather very well, we finally decided to leave our base on Saturday morning targeting so we could drive straight into the wedding. Everything was smooth until we got to Ibafo. It was like children playing in the sand just as cars, lorries, trailers, etc gathered on the road. We thought it was s small matter but it dawned on us later that we were in for a big trouble. We had spent less than one hour to Ibafo but we finally got to Lagos at 1.20pm.!
There was a fire outbreak involving two tankers and two other vehicles at Ibafo! We missed the social event. The back pain I last suffered two years ago sprung up again. I am still nursing it!
On getting to Lagos, because it rained a day or two before, our sleep on Saturday night was cool. We curtailed the mosquitoes with Baygon. By Sunday evening, the ground was already drying up so and there was no propspect of another rain to cool the environment. So it all started getting hot. We endured that night.
On Monday, we left home at 5.27 am for a 6.30 appointment. Fortunately we made it. But it required a follow up visit by Thursday so, we must spend three nights waiting. Another appointment was also scheduled, against our will, for Friday. So we must remain in Lagos. The longer we stayed the hotter it became and the more informed about our presence in town were the mosquitoes. All the nets, the inseticides failed. We were soaked in the heat and the mosquitoes defied any form of harrassment. Neither did the combination of smoke-based mosquito killers and baygon kill nor even drive them away. They were determined to bite us at all costs and they did to their hearts content. The heat of course kept us awake for them to deal with us with our eyes wide opened. The following morning, it was not difficult for us to prove how well they fed as our bedsheets, pillows, etc evidenced the volume of blood they had drained from our bodies with their 'straights' or 'syringes'. That was how we spent a whole week in Lagos. Then I sent my car for servicing, experimented with public transport. I paid N100 from Ikotun to Isolo, a 10-minute journey!
That was not enough out generator too became angry. It packed up. We took it for repairs and it was fixed. But in the evening, when we switched it on, it protested by ensuring that its output burnt my computer, internet power packs. This was the last straw that broke the carmel's back. I lost touch with my over 400m people with whom I share "Daily Energiser" every morning! That's why daily energiser suddenly went off the net! Painful but I just looked on.
Now Daily Energiser is back to you. I am full of apologies. I missed you my good friends both contacted by e-mail or through Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Google Buzz, My space, etc. I will never forget Lagos and how she has tried to severe our relationship. I am now back to base so God willing Daily Energiser will come to you as usual. Good morning. Lagosians, happy stay oh!
Thank you for reading reading Daily Energiser. Please recommend it to your friends.
