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But we are just trying to help you now ?!?

But we are just trying to help you now ?!? Now I guess the meaning of service agreement differs from person to person or even in countries. So my very nice colonel driver that took me to Ibadan couldn’t take me back to Lagos as he got a job to pick someone up from Lagos international airport. So I was left at the mercy of some random driver from the Iwo road motor park or my brothers trusted drop driver of many years. You maybe asking what a drop is, these are relevant terms in the home country, this term is used to describe hiring/chattering an otherwise shared transport vehicle for oneself. So at 8.30 in the morning, we called Saheed to find out where he was. Something not so unusual for this time of the year had happened; he was stuck in the famous Lagos Ibadan expressway traffic. Traffic could take anywhere from 30 minutes to 8 hours, it’s not something you can predict but thankfully the Lagos state government is finally working on the road although only one side of it is