Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? - Travel (3)

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Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Nobody: 10:41am On Jul 16, 2013

Handsomeemmy: Biko, it is God that protects, day or night....... I make most of my journey at night.

Gud point. I make most of my journeys at night too (in d last 4 weeks I av done Sokoto-Abuja over night 3 times,...Ibadan-Abuja once). And mostly in my car,...not commercial. The good tin abt driving yorself is dt u do it at yor pace,...and yor life is in yor own hands,not in d hands of one dumb driver.
Another route I do regularly at night is Sokoto-Lagos.
A note of warning; drive cautiously at night,....never be too far from commercial vehicles who ply d route every week. 2ndly,...always be conscious of d flow of on-coming traffic,...if u don't see dem for 5-10 straight minutes quickly make a u-turn to d nearest town or to the nearest 'confirmed' check point.
Lastly,do not overspeed at nyt,....u can never be sure wats lurking in d darkness at yor next bend.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Okijajuju1(m): 11:52am On Jul 16, 2013

well.. It depends..

1. The roads are not lit.

2. The smoothness of the road is. Yet another problem.

3. Nigerian drivers have zeor night driving ethics. They all drive with full beam on thereby making an already dangerous situation worse.

4. Increased chance of encountering robbers.. Though this has drastically reduced, its still remains a clear and ever present danger.

5. Police harassment. Yes! Checkpoints still abound on our roads and at night, you stand a higher risk of a police. Checkpoint acting funny just to extort you.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by 5much(m): 12:16pm On Jul 16, 2013

BROS, DONT TRY IT.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Rossikk(m): 5:06pm On Jul 16, 2013

Two questions (and answers):

1) Can anyone here point to anyone they personally know who has been killed by armed robbers on the road travelling interstate at night in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters can.

2) What percentage of posters here has actually travelled at night interstate in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters.

OP, I think you should take your enquiry elsewhere. NL is not the place to ask such a question. It's filled with mostly jobless youths who barely know the way out of their neighbourhoods, never mind national interstate travel.

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Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by biafranqueen: 5:21pm On Jul 16, 2013

Rossikk: Two questions (and answers):

1) Can anyone here point to anyone they personally know who has been killed by armed robbers on the road travelling interstate at night in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters can.

2) What percentage of posters here has actually travelled at night interstate in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters.

OP, I think you should take your enquiry elsewhere. NL is not the place to ask such a question. It's filled with mostly jobless adolescents who barely know the main road out of their neighbourhoods, never mind interstate travel.

I and my family usually travel to the East around 3am for years now and never had a problem. But one fellow came from the States to marry from his town. Everyone knows he is into credit cards fraud in America and he is a big show off. He was robbed all the way down to his underwear, luckily not killed on the way to his Traditional Marriage in the east for Lagos. When he told the story I knew right away it was his friends that set him up Karma is a b*#ch!

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Nobody: 5:26pm On Jul 16, 2013

Rossikk: Two questions (and answers):

1) Can anyone here point to anyone they personally know who has been killed by armed robbers on the road travelling interstate at night in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters can.

2) What percentage of posters here has actually travelled at night interstate in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters.

OP, I think you should take your enquiry elsewhere. NL is not the place to ask such a question. It's filled with mostly jobless youths who barely know the way out of their neighbourhoods, never mind national interstate travel.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Obinnau(m): 9:23pm On Jul 16, 2013

Rossikk: Two questions (and answers):

1) Can anyone here point to anyone they personally know who has been killed by armed robbers on the road travelling interstate at night in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters can.

2) What percentage of posters here has actually travelled at night interstate in the last 5 years?

Less than 1% of posters.
Op do you really think everybody is as backward as you? That you are not into such ventures doesn't make other people not to know what's happening.
OP, I think you should take your enquiry elsewhere. NL is not the place to ask such a question. It's filled with mostly jobless youths who barely know the way out of their neighbourhoods, never mind national interstate travel.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by pinkkystel(f): 1:54pm On Jul 17, 2013

See question o Why don't u give it a try, like they say experience is the best teacher

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Hullabaloon: 8:26pm On Jan 07, 2020

dammytosh:
Yes it will be safe in 2020

1. When we have good roads.
2. There are highway lights.
3. People value their self prestige and will rather die than steal or rob.

We are already in 2020, yet things are worse grin

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Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by DisGuy(mod): 10:40pm On Jan 07, 2020

Hullabaloon:
We are already in 2020, yet things are worse

Terrible!!

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Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Nobody: 9:13am On Feb 16, 2020

no matter what,travelling at night has been my best option since 2010.this year is gonna be a traveling year for me ,as I'm doing it at night all through

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Asquare84(m): 4:26pm On Feb 16, 2020

dammytosh:
Yes it will be safe in 2020

1. When we have good roads.
2. There are highway lights.
3. People value their self prestige and will rather die than steal or rob.

We are already in the year 2020 and all the things you said above non came to pass in Nigeria

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Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by EgunMogaji2: 3:54am On Feb 19, 2020

Unless you’re traveling by commercial transport then I personally wouldn’t chance it.

For some stupid reason I left Ibadan at 7PM on Friday to go to Ijebu Ode. Though I travel this road almost weekly but this is the first time at night.

When I arrived there around 830PM I needed a stiff drink and I promised myself never to try such again.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by Nobody: 9:49pm On Feb 29, 2020

I was an ss3 student,18 in the year 2010 when I started traveling at night and since then I've been traveling alone at night boarding luxurious buses from either Lagos, Ibadan,or Ilorin to Portharcourt city at least 3 to 4 times per year, now I'm a graduate,and I still travel at night same route at night, and I've not encounter any form of robbery, road attack not even accident, in fact night travel is the most safest, it's rear to see or hear about travellers getting involved in accident.

Re: Is Interstates Road Travel At Night Safe In Nigeria? by crestedaguiyi: 6:32pm On May 22, 2022

Do people still travel at night.

Port Harcourt to lagos on my mind

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