Traffic cops go off duty in the early evening and it' s every man for himself. The enormous tailbacks of traffic provide an opportunity for street trading entrepreneurs. The most popular products are personal grooming things like combs and cologne and practical medicinals like throat lozenges. The cough drops are particularly useful since the heavy, humid atmosphere traps the exhaust and makes the air particularly hard to breathe. While the traffic moves at a crawl, the rest of the city seethes with human activity.
People leap over highway barriers and race across the six lanes of frozen metal.
Off in the distance around campfires people hustle around. Nigerians have a huge amount of energy. For all their application they remain desperately poor. It doesn' t take long to feel a sense of outrage on their behalf. This country pumps as much crude oil as Kuwait, the oil companies pay a hefty royalty to the government on every barrel they pull out of the ground.