Nothing describes Lagos in October better than chaos. It’s not like the city isn’t always filled with turbulence, but there is something peculiar about October. The rush of everyone and everything reaches fever pitch in the last quarter of the year. It’s in our blood as Nigerians to make the most of anything.
Traffic tends to be more problematic. It’s the sort of congestion that leaves you at a spot for 40 minutes because someone is too big and defiant to obey traffic regulations at a T-junction. The weather is also very dramatic – always too extreme: when it’s sunny it is scorching and when rain comes it floods everywhere, and we all know what that means for a coastal city with poor drainage construction. Then there are unwarranted police stops, with officers on the lookout for young persons to either harass or extort. Regardless of their claims, police brutality is still alive and well despite the #EndSARS protest in 2020.
