Everything you said were 100% correct, I stayed there for 2years.

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

mcevans1:
It has happened to me before and I spent a lot of money but still no results

I treated it myself after I got tired of spending
my hard earned money and it disappeared.

This is all you need

15 sachets of Moko Epson Salt.
1 Neomedrol for a start
1 pack of cotton wool
6 sachets of Doxycycline.

If you're ready let me know

I just took this picture to back it up

You are very right, I treated mine with Neomedrol four years ago.

LibertyRep:
The government that sacked the democratically elected LG chairmen is the one that actually encouraged the violent take over ( if any).
The government of Oyo state should be solely held responsible for any breakdown of law in that state.

This of course is not to excuse the mischief of the Ajimobi administration in conducting LG election at the twilight of his tenure. It is a landmine set for the incoming administration and Makinde should have navigated carefully so as not to run foul of the law.

Until INEC conducts the LG elections alongside the governorship elections, we will still be dancing around in a circle.

Ajumobi used 2 terms without LG election, he added more LG and conducted election with less than a year to go. GSM came and sacked them, you people started shouting after their party lost at the Supreme Court. The same thing happened in Kwara State, but that one is normal because it is the same party. hhmmmm

Jaideyone:
so 2018 is twilight of his tenure? or he shouldn't do anything because his tenure is about to end?

LibertyRep:
The government that sacked the democratically elected LG chairmen is the one that actually encouraged the violent take over ( if any).
The government of Oyo state should be solely held responsible for any breakdown of law in that state.

This of course is not to excuse the mischief of the Ajimobi administration in conducting LG election at the twilight of his tenure. It is a landmine set for the incoming administration and Makinde should have navigated carefully so as not to run foul of the law.

Until INEC conducts the LG elections alongside the governorship elections, we will still be dancing around in a circle.

Ajumobi used 2 terms without LG election, he added more LG and conducted election with less than a year to go. GSM came and sacked them, you people started shouting after their party lost at the Supreme Court. The same thing happened in Kwara State, but that one is normal because it is the same party. hhmmmm

murmee:
So they expect people who live on the island or people who live in places like Apapa, Festac, Okokomaiko, Okota etc to first of all go on a tedious journey to Agege before they can board a train going to Ibadan. Does that make sense?

I think they are not saying the truth here because there is no work going on within Ibadan here. Moniya is an outskirt of Ibadan. From Moniya, one will spend nothing less than #500 to come back to some areas in Ibadan.

Nice one, unlike Oyo State APC.

jacquincy:
Where is the drop off point in ibadan?

God bless you for that question. Because I haven't seen any sign of new railway in Dugbe axis.

God bless you for that question. Because I haven't seen any sign of new railway in Dugbe axis.

big3boy:
pls anybody in the house. how can i get prepaid meter. the nepa in my area are frustrating all efforts to get it. am in ibadan

I got mine within a week for 45k in Eleiyele area

victorakpabome:

Is Biz Admin a 5 year course at Unilag? Just asking

Part time Business Administration is 5yrs

kennygee:

She must not remarry, but in my opinion sef, she was never married.
Marrying someone's husband doesn't count.

You are very correct, snatching someone's husband doesn't count.

BankeSmalls:
Terrible
This guy must have lived in the south west?
He learnt this from the region that owns this type of thing

You and your flat head chest beaters that like/liked this comment are sick.

Beautiful