[CNN] Nigeria's Unsafe Roads

2008.04.02

CNN's Christian Purefoy takes us for a drive in Lagos, Nigeria, where motoring is dangerous and often deadly.

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News & Politics

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• CNN
• News
• Nigeria
• Lagos
• traffic
• driving
• road
• roads
• vehicles
• accident
• crash
• pothole
• congestion
• passenger
• bus
• minibus

[Akinwande8]

Christian Purefoy - "How am I suppose to drive on a Lagos road without side mirrors, without indicators, without even a speedometer?"

GOBE BAKARE - "YOU ARE GOING TO FEEL IT NATURALLY"

LOL

[MuzikIsMeh]

all u sayed is so tru! Thumbs Up!!!

[meinghost]

Naija is fucked!!

[aliyum]

@Akinwande8 Isnt that the same concept with Ferrari where feeling the car is the ultimate pleasure?? I love his response though!!

[kwameslc]

@fatimat18

This car will NEVER be used to train any driver in the US. This news worth reporting but your sleeping journalists you are proud of are not reporting so the politicians dont care to find a solution. Enough of blind love for country.

[to81omo]

@savannahblk your such a racist...and I'm white

smh

[kahua33]

@fatimat18 please don't be a dump ass all your life you not comparing the roads in houston to nigeria it is the worst for now that why so many of your ppl are leaving that hell hole i was there this summer ppl pissing all on the side of the roads maybe ppl would fell sorry for ya'll dump ass if you humble yourself and stop blowing sunshine up our ass telling us your piss is really rain

[fatimat18]

ok. lets all accept nigeria has a bad road, so is evry oda place in d world, america is not dat perfect on dere roads also, i can name a few places in houston dat d roads re bad and even in mexico, d drivin down dere is crazy, pple dnt follow all the street lights dey ave. and i tink wateva is in nigeria is wat makes us who we re, we not as rich as america, so i tink we tryin our best to make the country a beta place, dey shld stop makin it as if its d worst country eva

[nnaamen]

Typical Lagos. Bode bakare is somehow right. You will feel when you are speeding. You don't need a speedometer feel the difference between doing 50kmh and 100kmh. However you cannot use a car like that to teach someone how to drive. But that's what they all use in Lagos. They reason the learner will bash up a new car. So they use a battered one. I can assure you that Bode has a nice car he drives privately.

[zweeterion]

I don't know why Nigerian officials accept unmarked roads from the construction companies.Every road in Nigeria used to be marked until about 1986 during the Babangida era.With years of total neglect of roads,Today Nigerians are thankful to drive on any smooth surface even if it were not marked.