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Benjamin Hundeyin is the public relations officer of the Lagos State Police Command.


SP Benjamin Hundeyin @benhundeyin

MOTORCYCLE BAN ENFORCEMENT: CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc meets with Heads of @official_NSCDC, @FRSCNigeria, @rrslagos767, @Taskforce112 and @OfficialLNSC today, May 30, 2022 at the Police Headquarters, Ikeja to further consolidate already mapped out strategies.

https://mobile.twitter.com/benhundeyin/status/1531259245563371521

Anaerobi:
This man.

Nigerians are talking about him and APC, he's yet to say a word.

His spokesman has already said (a long time ago) that he is not contesting, but people want to believe that they know more than his spokesman. In fact, they have said it many times. The last time that his spokesman released a statement, he made it very clear that they were not going to talk about this issue again because there's no truth to it.

Goodluck E. Jonathan @GEJonathan

This evening, I arrived in Milan, Italy, to attend this year’s high-level advisory board meeting of the European Corporate Council on Africa and the Middle East (ECAM Council), holding in the ancient city of Como.
-GEJ

https://mobile.twitter.com/GEJonathan/status/1530988921638768641

I know that some people are posting simply because they want to troll and I have no time for those people, but this explanation is for those that genuinely do not know.

1) Charity events: People all over the world and all through time have taken up challenges in order to raise money for charity. Just 2 years ago we saw how Captain Tom Moore, at the age of 99, walked 100 lengths of his garden in order to raise money for charity. There was the Ice Bucket Challenge which has gone viral many times since 2014 and which was done to raise funds for research into the ALS disease. Some people have auctioned dresses, guitars, etc in order to raise funds for charity.


This bike ride got so much publicity that people all over the world were talking about it. It became an opportunity to get people to donate towards the funding of polio vaccination campaigns, treatment for people suffering the effects of polio, etc. This is a common practice all over the world and all through time.


Similarly, there have been many people that have taken various "around the world" challenges. There have been people that have driven cars around the world, ridden motorcycles, bicycles, etc. They usually cross continents by sailing across the narrowest waterways between the continents. This has been done for more than a century and it is not a new thing.


Congratulations to Kunle Adeyanju for raising money for the fight against polio.

Enyimbamercedes:
This is a laudable feat but people saying Guinness world record should rest.

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman rode from Scotland to Capetown …
My point is riding or driving from Europe to Africa is normal feat for adventurers.

Wow! You are the first person to "say Guinness World Record" on the thread.

Sultty:
which year are u writing from because he has already arrived

Look at the time that the thread was created and compare it with the time that he arrived.

By the way, predictive text got me on the first post. I meant to write an adventurer, not an adventurist.

By the way, for those who are shocked that he rode from Europe to Africa, especially those who think it is impossible, it is not a new thing. I remember that there was a guy who did a similar journey in the 1980s. In fact, a man has circumnavigated the earth on a motorcycle.

Check this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Stearns_Clancy

The first post was quite short, but can you believe that there are some people that are responding without even reading it?

It's the person that is using a woman's Twitter account.

Police escort.

The Mali-Ivory Coast border has been closed since the Covid-19 lockdown. He therefore took a detour through Burkina Faso and considered avoiding Ivory Coast altogether, but the Nigerian Embassy got an exemption for him and he returned to the country. The Ivory Coast-Ghana border had been reopened and therefore he could easily go from there to Ghana.

Last picture: He was usually hosted by biker clubs in the countries that he visited.

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Many Twitter users have become fascinated by some of the women that he met along the way and some Nigerian Twitter users have adopted Zenab as their in-law.

It's a long journey.

Twitter is one of the companies that has supported him and their global CEO tweeted his congratulations to him.

He suffered a flat tyre in Mali and although he got it fixed, the problem resurfaced later on. The first flat occurred in a rural area, but the second occurred in an urban area and the local bikers club helped him to get it fixed. He also considered contacting Honda to get a new tyre.


Honda and other companies have supported his voyage after it trended on Twitter. Some hotels in Lagos have also offered to host him when he arrives the city.

Policemen, customs officials, thugs and other people constantly tried to extort money from him when he was in Mauritania. Many people that he met in the country were rude and aggressive. This was a sharp contrast from Morocco where he met very friendly people. He expressed his displeasure on Twitter and it trended in Mauritania. Ministers and other government officials tweeted to apologise and promised that they would investigate the situation.


Many other Twitter users confirmed that they had similar experience in Mauritania and some Nigerians cautioned Mr Adeyanju that he should not go through Mauritania on his return journey because some Mauritanians might be angry about his complaints.

Proceeds from donations and the auction of the motorcycle will be donated to the Rotary Club's fight against polio and to other charitable causes.

An adventurist, Kunle Adeyanju, who is on a motorcycle journey from London to Lagos, is due to arrive in Lagos today. Adeyanju, who undertook the journey in order to raise funds for the fight against polio, has been riding his motorcycle, a Honda CB 500X, from London since April 19th and he is due to arrive Lagos today.

The journey has been full of adventure and risks and he has documented it on his Twitter feed. Policemen, customs officials and thugs extorted ₦124,000 from him on the Mauritania-Senegal border. His outcry on Twitter attracted the attention of Mauritanian ministers who launched an investigation into the incident. He was initially denied entry into the Ivory Coast because the border between Ivory Coast and Senegal was closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, but the Nigerian Embassy in Ivory Coast helped him get around the problem. He had ridden into Burkina Faso in order to avoid Ivory Coast, but he came back into Ivory Coast after the Nigerian Embassy intervened. He also suffered a flat tyre in Mali, but kind villagers came to his rescue. However, one of the things that has attracted the most attention from his followers on Twitter is the various women that he has met along the way. One of them has promised to come to Lagos to await his arrival.

Mr Adeyanju and his motorcycle crossed from Spain in Europe, to Morocco in Africa via ferry.

Kunle Adeyanju is the president-elect of the Ikoyi Metro district of the Rotary Club and he has been hosted by rotary clubs all along his route. He has also been hosted by biker clubs and the Nigerian diplomatic missions all along his route. He spoke to Twitter staff in Ghana and also received a message from Twitter's CEO, Parag Agrawal.


Mr Adeyanju has previously climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and planted a Nigerian flag at its summit, he has sky dived and ridden a motorcycle from Ghana to Nigeria. He plans to auction his motorcycle, which he nicknamed Eagle, when he gets to Lagos and he will donate the proceeds to the fight against polio. There are also hints that a book and a Netflix series will be produced to document the journey.