24 Years and Counting

Abraham was on a trip to Benin in 2001 when he heard construction had begun on the 135km Ibadan-Ilorin dual-carriageway back home in Nigeria. It felt like the end of a long wait that had begun in 1979, when president Olusegun Obasanjo, who at the time was the military head of state, flagged the road construction as an emergency.

Today, 24 years after official construction began, Abraham’s import business is long dead and he now sells palm wine along the highway. Asked if he thought construction of the Ibadan-Ilorin highway would be completed any time soon, he simply laughed. Read more