Nigeria Travel Guide

You can get everything from Art works, local hand crafted jewelry, interesting masks, decorative statues and cloths made from local fabrics at very affordable prices Its best you use the local currency to pay for any item purchased in this market, as it is not exactly a posh market.

How accurate is this tip? Well I am in the airport right now writing it! If you have the great misfortune to be a transit passenger in this airport, you will not enjoy it much. They take your passport and make you go through security again. Then they take you upstairs to a 'Transit Lounge' where there is some old furniture, a newspaper and a guard...

Abuja is normally always hot! when I walked into the restaurant first thing that hit me was the cool temperature, such a welcome relief. It has a restaurant with diverse offerings from burgers to jamaican jerk chicken to local nigerian food. Also a cocktail bar with interesting mocktails and cocktails. Oh and they have cigars and outside at the...

Delicious Indian food, reasonable prices, friendly service. All vegetarian dishes are great!Channa Saag N1,100Kadahi Vegetables N1050Makhni Dal N900Vegetable Samosa (2) N450Lots more to choose from!Meat dishes, nothing over N1600Lunch buffet Sunday to Friday N2000

We had a post meeting Dinner at the Blue Elephant which was as good as many of the Italian restaurants I have been to in Holland. Well dress people, both Nigerians and westener's some in causal dress. Food was very good. Expensive. A welcome change from the camp food.

At the minute its all over the news, Delta and RIvers state have rebels that are targeting westerners in order to get the oil companies to put more effort into sorting out the local environment and caring more for the local communities. So look at www.fco.gov.uk and travel advice before you go.Just before I arrived in 2004, there were 50 people...

The photo shows one of the roadside stalls in Zaria selling fresh, local fruit. The pineapples were enormous and others I tasted in Nigeria were fantastic - so fresh.Potatoes were called Irish potatoes to distinguish them from the other Sweet potatoes.Note the chalked up sign advertising the timing for the next football match on TV - Liverpool vs...

Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria is probably the largest university West Africa with approximately 35,000 students, a very large main campus, two smaller teaching hospitals campuses, as well as a handful of research institutions nearby.

The walls sorrounded once the entire city, now they are in different stages of decay, but the have an opeing for the cars to pass through

Kano is a very attractive and busy place in the North of Nigeria.The Durbar festival which take place twice a year during the Muslim celebration of Id-el-fitr and Id-el-kebir is a very good opportunity to go and visit Kano.

The ever loving and accommodating Mary Slessor is the mother of every twin child born in Nigeria: as she stop the killings of twins. She single-handedly abolished the cruel killings of twins. In the old days, twin babies were seen as a taboo; an abomination - a way of the gods exposing you of your sins.She turned it all around and fought for every...

This is one of the 1884 prefabricated British houses that still stand in Calabar, which has now been declared a national monument.