Lerabari's Blog

10 Things that Happened over the Weekend and in the Past Week in Rivers State: 1. Protest, as body of missing young woman is found in well in Rumuosi Community                             Lifeless body of young woman after it was brought out of the well                                           Compound well in Rumuosi where body was found                 2. Police in Rivers State arrest four people for allegedly stealing one-month-old baby 3. Police in Rivers State rearrest owner of real estate company, The Villa 4. Rivers State to start operating Treasury Single Account 5. Rivers State Road Maintenance Agency say rain is the major challenge affecting its operations 6. Alleged Port Harcourt serial killer, Gracious David-West, changes...

In the space of 10 minutes, I was told by two different persons that I should be driving my own car. They said it in a derogatory manner, but don't know that somehow, they've agreed with me in faith. The first person was a street trader who was trying to 'shed' her wears on the road. I was jejely standing on my own by the road, waiting for a keke to drive by. She was straightening out a black nylon she had already spread on the road next to where I was standing. There was another unfolded one on the floor and I suspected she was going to spread it too. So I just stood there when she picked the second one up and said,  "Shift make I shed my market."  I stood still, like I didn't hear anything. She then attempts to spread it, not minding that I was standing there. While bending, she put her butt in my face (not literally though). A keke had stopped in front of me, so I just walked towards it and told her,  "Na you get the road? No wo...

"Oga free us make we go nau!" The driver kept shouting as he frantically turned the key in the ignition, in an attempt to get the bus to start. The bus kept hiccuping, but refused to start. The Man opened the door and stepped down from the bus. The eyes of all the passengers followed him as he walked away and stopped a rickshaw otherwise called 'Keke'. Then I began questioning myself. Was it the man that CURSED the vehicle to halt? Did he possess special powers that we weren't aware of? Was he going to do more than he did to the driver? Why didn't the driver just keep quiet!? I usually have two routes to choose from every Sunday. This particular Sunday, I decide to change from the regular to the 'not regular'. The first bus I approached was parked by the roadside, because it appears the Taskforce on illegal parks have their break on Sundays. I entered the bus and sat down, but the seat was bad so I stepped down to look for another vehicle. ...