Close your eyes for 4 seconds and imagine waking up to seeing the waves of the Ocean rolling and crashing gently on the rocks right in front of you as you sip from a glass half-filled with your favourite drink. Now stop imagining and open your eyes. Whatever you’ve imagined isn’t up to half of…
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Private Hangout at Tarkwa Bay with my Avengers
I’ve been traveling on water for the past 15 years, and never for once have I seen the body of water as angry as what I saw that Saturday morning. I think and the biggest mistake I made was not looking up the weather forecast before fixing my private hangout at Tarkwa bay. Why Tarkwa…
Planning a group hangout In Laguna Beach, Lagos?
We had barely settled into our Cabana when the rain started at Laguna Beach. It felt as though a bucket of liquid metal had been poured into my spine. My mouth went dry. I looked at everyone’s face for answers but all I got were blank stares laden with disappointment. I felt the pain sharper…
How I got the Sahara Centre Grant and Executed It
If the quest for survival wasn’t a factor, I’d most likely be a classroom teacher in a public primary school or traveling around the world on behalf of an NGO to deliver on projects geared towards helping mankind. I’m almost sure you have professions/careers you’ve got natural love for but had to settle for something…
Surviving Ogbunike Cave and its Colony of Bats
If this is your first time on my blog or the first time you’d be reading about my adventures in Eastern Nigeria, Start from here. We walked forward, still protesting the locked gates when a white minivan parked right beside us. The driver probably knew we were destined for Awka. Since he guessed right, there…
Nigeria Tourism Statistics 2020 by Nomadic Negro
I was just curious that afternoon to know what data the bureau of statistics had on The Nigerian Travel Industry. I wasn’t surprised when I met an almost empty page because the industry is one of the few sectors that no one is interested in. This singular occurrence prompted me to put together this simple…
Top 5 Movies on Netflix for Every Travel Enthusiast
If I were asked 2 months ago about the possibilities of me writing a post like this, I most likely will give an unsure answer because I belong to that WhatsApp group of folks who doze off barely 10 minutes into a movie. Any movie at all. However, everything changed in January when I decided…
Bubble Tea Hunting at Cafeteria Nigeria
Do you know what they say about a man proposing and God disposing? I had my fair share of this fate while planning my quest to visiting The cafeteria Nigeria for bubble tea. The original plan was to go with a few friends on the second of January but just a few days before the…
Getting Lost inside Kurmi Market, Kano
If this is your first time reading this series, it’s advisable you start from here. Kurmi Market, Kano Founded by the Emir of Kano, Mohammad Rumfa, in the 15th Century in 1463, Kurmi Market is one of the biggest and oldest markets in Nigeria. It is positioned almost at the centre of Kano City, slightly away…
Kano Zoo: the Destination I Completely Underestimated
If this is your first time reading this series, it’s advisable you start from here. In October, 2019, A lion in the Zoo escaped, killed and Ate all the goats in the zoo before being caught by rangers This thought rang in my head for many seconds as we progressed into the facility. “May…