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  • 8 Types of People You Will Meet In Lagos Traffic.

    8 Types of People You Will Meet In Lagos Traffic.

    1. Oga ‘Need for Speed’.

    Thinks everything is a race. Oga cahm dahn, it’s just Ikorodu road.

    2. The ‘Tortoise’.

    Pray you don’t get trapped behind them in traffic. They can spend 3 hours on Ikorodu road.

    3. The ‘Convoy King’.

    Everyone must know when he’s in town. Oga, we hail o… na only you get road.

    4. The ‘Road Rager’.

    Aunty sorry, I just wanted to cut in front of you. No need to call my grandfather a bastard na.

    5. The ‘Snapchat/Texter’.

    Will take 5 selfies while speeding. AUNTY LOOK ROAD!… You wan kee person?!

    6. The ‘Learner’.

    Dont go near them, if they jam you no one will be on your side. Because “na learner”.

    7. The ‘DJ’

    Plays loud music with his windows down.  Once he’s jamming Wizkid, we’re all jamming Wizkid.

    8. The ‘Rich Kid’.

    BENZINO BABA… G-wagzzz… CBN!! We respect your government.
  • The Stress Of Travelling By Road With Your Nigerian Family

    The Stress Of Travelling By Road With Your Nigerian Family

    1. When your parents tell you that you’re travelling to the village.

    Hay God! Why?

    2. How your parents wake everybody up by 4am to start getting ready:

    Hian! Are we washing the road?

    3. When your mother packs the whole kitchen for trip that is just a few hours.

    Mummy, calm down na.

    4. When the person praying for journey mercies turns it into a church service.

    Oga, can we move?

    5. How your parents squeeze you and your siblings at the back:

    The worst.

    6. When you still have to share the backseat with load that didn’t enter the boot.

    What is it? Are we moving?

    7. When your mother immediately starts playing her gospel music.

    Chai!

    8. How your parents look at you if you try to play your own music.

    “Are you a demon?”

    9. Your father, if he has not seen banana and groundnut to buy.

    It is by force.

    10. When your parents finally put off the AC because of petrol.

    Kuku kill me.

    11. When your father refuses to stop for you to use the toilet because he stopped an hour ago.

    Is it fair?

    12. When one of your siblings farts in the car.

    UGH!

    13. When the phone battery you’ve been managing finally dies.

    It’s all over.

    14. You, when one of your siblings starts dozing off on your shoulder.

    See this one.

    15. When you and your siblings start fighting and your parents threaten to drop you on the road.

    Ah! No oh!

    16. How you come down from the car when you finally reach your destination:

    FINALLY!
  • 14 Pictures Only Nigerians Who Have Travelled By Road Will Get

    14 Pictures Only Nigerians Who Have Travelled By Road Will Get

    1. When agberos start touching you the moment you enter the park.

    Can you not?

    2. When they make you fill a manifest with your next of kin’s number and address.

    Are you planning on having accident, abi what?

    3. You, waiting for the bus to get full.

    CAN WE MOVE?

    4. How they pack you in the bus:

    The struggle.

    5. When one pastor appears to preach and collect prayer offering before the bus leaves.

    Not today, biko.

    6. When the bus starts moving before the person you bought gala from has given you change.

    WAIT!!!

    7. Your driver, when he sees FRSC and he is not wearing seatbelt.

    Oh God!

    8. How everyone looks at that person that just keeps shouting “slow down oh!”.

    Go down and trek na.

    9. When your battery dies in the middle of the trip.

    WHY ME?

    10. When a trailer comes out of nowhere and the driver skillfully dodges it.

    Bad guy.

    11. When someone tells the driver to stop so they can use the toilet.

    Better hold yourself.

    12. The whole bus, when you reach a military checkpoint.

    Just comport yourself.

    13. When something happens and the driver says you’ll have to stay over night.

    Hay God!

    14. When you see your luggage after you reach your destination:

    Always dirty. Co-written by Zikoko Contributor, @John_Osbo