The Lagos Hustle
Lagos is known as the city that never sleeps. The day to day hustle and bustle of Lagos reflects strongly in the driving. You are the only one whose time matters on the road. No one else's time has any value to you. I have been told that if you can master driving in Lagos, you can drive anywhere in the world. Yellow buses and kekes. The first piece of advice I received when I arrived in Lagos is not to pick a fight with the infamous yellow buses and the three-wheeled kekes. They believe they are immortal. No fear. Let them have their way because they think they own the road. They pull off to the side of the road without warning, drop off passangers, and continue to merge with oncoming traffic as if no one else could possibly be driving on the road. But, rumor has it that the current governor of Lagos State has a masterplan to get rid of the yellow buses. Lanes. Lanes mean nothing in Lagos. Wherever your car is, that is the lane. You define the lane. The lane does