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Since i was a child, i have been regaled with stories about the supernatural by cousins who were supposed to be babysitting us (my sister and cousins) but i can tell you they scared us out of our wits by feeding us stories about horrible beings or people who changed their shapes to achieve some diabolical purpose! One story that will remain with me for life amongst their horrible tales is one which im sure most kids who grew up in Naija will have heard in its original form or a variant. A certain young girl who had been warned by her mom never to accept lifts did so on a dark night and was picked up by a stranger in a mercedes benz. She sat at the back and was able to view his teeth through the rearview mirror. She almost died of fright when she saw he had pins instead of teeth in his gums. She hurriedly found an excuse to get down and she did but stupidly took another lift from the next car that came by. This time she sat in front and began to regale the man with the story of her near...

Hi! Its been quite a while since i wrote anything on my blog, ive got millions of excuses but ill not give any of them. Just bear with me and if i can ill post one soon maybe today who knows?

It seems like ive been in Lagos for a lifetime while ive actually spent just two months and four days. I remember my first few days at home the noise from the generators put me on edge constantly, i continually complained that the noise was getting to me, a few days ago my mum commented that it had been sometime since i complained about the noise, i looked up startled realisisng that i had gotten used to the noise, now it seemed like it didnt exist. How i wish that was the least of signs that i was becoming more of Lagos and less of an outsider. My trips round Lagos where always met with trepidation on my part, as i wondered how i would meander through the horrors of traffic in Lagos. At first i would stand back at bus stops waiting to board a bus, refusing to rush for a bus i had been waiting almost 10minutes or more for and smiling to myself when i see otherwise civilised persons rushing for and nearly tearing their clothes in a bid to jump on the bus already revving away. I was almo...