Written on Monday 12/05/08Greetings all,
My apologies in the delay in putting the start of the week’s blog up yesterday. This was due to the long long time to load up photographs. Maybe my photographs are massive in which case I’ll go back and read the manual . Anyway, let’s continue…
I was told - ''You haven't worked in Nigeria???? They will kill you, they will eat you alive, you can't do it!". Well here I am, and at least I have survived the first week, with my Hawes and Curtis shirts shining and my blackberry intact (take my word for it, a blackberry shows that you have arrived, in certain circles that is).
Anyway, moving swiftly on, I was in the office today at 7.07am! That's Nigeria banking hours for you. I have never ever been in any office that early in my life and I wasn't even the first one in. I had left my VI hotel on Friday after they told me it would cost N300 to iron each item of my clothes and I quickly realised that either I would be shelling our extravagant sums of money on ironing and food (circa N2000 per hotel dinner) or I had better move quickly to the more relaxed, free food environment of family. Family are great, however distant, in Nigeria you will always find someone to welcome you with open arms.
So my time in Lekki started Friday evening. I had booked an agent for Saturday 10am and was calling the agent by 9.30am to find out if we were still on. This is following on from confirmation on Friday that he would be there on time. Come Sat morning, the agent had switched off his phone and I haven't heard from him since. Did get shown around by another agent abt 1pm. Off we went to see a ground floor flat in a nice estate called Treasure Gardens. This fully serviced ground floor flat was on at the minor sum of N3.5m. I repeat, it was on the ground floor so I would be first on the menu for any hungry robbers in the night and you still pay for the electricity and N350,000 per annum for service charge. Don't get me wrong, the estate was very nice - see picture below, but 3.5 is slightly over my budget considering that I would rather save up over time to buy a place than pay all that cash to some happy landlord...
Pictures above are as follows
1. The N3.5m flat in Treasure Gardens
2. Another nice picture of the estate
1 comment:
Drax,
I no blame you!
After spending years ironing not just your own clothes, but those of Ritz & the three piknis as well, you now feel you are a Big man; and need a boy-boy to iron for you! You get luck say no be £300 dem charge you.
Brilliant blog, even if I say so myself. Mrs Amobi will be proud of ya.
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