Tariah's blog

(Photo credit: Eldo Photos) I was with a friend the other day and while we were talking he called me "Omo Igbo". I have had to explain to people on several occasions that I am Ijaw and not Igbo. A lot of people outside the Southern part of Nigeria assume that Rivers people are Igbos. I am from Kalabari and we are Ijaws alongside the Okrikans, Bonny, Opobo, Nkoro, Andoni, Bille, Engenni, and Kula. Other ethnic settings in Rivers State include; Ikwerre, Ogoni, Etche, Ahoada, Ogba-Egbema, Orashi, Ndoni and Egbema.

Brethren! They wanted to kill me with AC in the bus but thank God I'm still alive. Call me bush, but I am not used to being in an air-conditioned place for so long. I was freezing. My teeth was clenching but God is alive, so I lived. We stopped briefly at Ughelli in Delta state. I was very hungry and pressed. I quickly jumped down and entered the fast food. I used the convenience then I got something to eat. I couldn't eat comfortable because I was looking out for my bus.

I got into Lagos at 2:50pm. As expected, I started seeing yellow buses. I heave a sigh of relief like "finally, we are here". This is not my first time in Lagos but technically, it is. Okay, don't be confused. This is my third time in Lagos but this is the first time I had the typical "Lagos experience". Are we good now? Okay! So my first time in Lagos was in 2015. I came during "Id el Kabir". It didn't feel like the Lagos I read about on my Twitter timeline. Most of my followers on Twitter are Lagosians, sometimes it feels like I'm one. They made me think Lagos was stressful (even though they will never agree), hustle and bustle, people are always on the move etc. so I expected that, as soon as I got in but it wasn't so.