Moe

[Moe @Mochievous]

In Dec 2023, I randomly decided to do a road trip across West Africa solo. I started in Lagos then passed through Benin. Continued to Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry then took the ferry to Freetown Sierra leone then back to Lagos

[Moe @Mochievous]

@DatGirlAdun This is amazing!! congratulations

[Moe @Mochievous]

@optixbaba i can’t believe you unlocked your account for this smh

[Moe @Mochievous]

@AfricWomenPower I had a love hate relationship with it tbh but i also lived in other parts of the U.S., the UK and the UAE as well within the last 10 years.

[Moe @Mochievous]

I think about this all the time but my thoughts vacillate btw both extremes.

I HATE how much inefficiencies i have to deal with on a day to day but I also like and want to live in Nigeria. This country must work and I’ve made peace with fighting for it to

[Aunty Teda @imoteda]

Moving back to Nigeria was a mistake.

[Moe @Mochievous]

@F_II_S *cannot

[Moe @Mochievous]

@F_II_S i hear you however they are not a hotel or a resort or a safari camp. They are a research institute who also open up their dormitories to the public when they have availability. The rooms have to stay affordable for their visiting scholars. They can turn them to luxury rooms

[Moe @Mochievous]

@F_II_S another private company should take that up. That’s not the space IITA occupies in society.

[Moe @Mochievous]

@Nubia_Republic yes i heard something like that

[Moe @Mochievous]

@Supergetty_ i love love old builds! I even live in one

[Moe @Mochievous]

and just because one moves back doesn’t mean that they can’t complain about that decision. Not all your decisions in life will be optimal or even *objectively* rational. There are many reasons people come back and some of those do not fit into a balance sheet

[Moe @Mochievous]

We can all clamor for a better Nigeria and we should without fail. People can decide to leave, stay, come back or never look back. It is their personal decision and they don’t have to justify which ever one they choose to anybody else

[Moe @Mochievous]

which is why i said it should be a complete answer. There’s no need to question people’s motivation to move back (which is what i was responding to)

[Perdita Weeks' Boo @TheMayorOfLagos]

@Mochievous It should be. But when entire generations (Gen Y, Z, Alpha) find it hard to maximise their potential, it no longer is.

Yes, there are alternatives to every problem but the effort and cost to make them happen could be better spent on developing themselves.

[Moe @Mochievous]

@IyanuAdee it is a one bed. Yes two persons maximum in this.
They have a 2 bedroom (adjoining rooms) so that’s probably what a family would need to take depending on the ages of the children although it is best to confirm with them

[Moe @Mochievous]

Quoting so others can see as well. The accommodation weren’t purpose built as hotel rooms. They are actually dormitories built in the 1960s for visiting scholars. So yeah they are basic but pristine and well maintained and that was okay for me.

[OBJ nt Obj @jtuns]

@Mochievous I went on their platform and the reviews on the accomodation weren't nice.
Can u share a honest assessment on that?
Thanks in anticipation.

[Moe @Mochievous]

@SueBack12 ah yes! the mattress in the one bed I stayed was so comfortable but the one in the single room was so hard. I remember having to use the duvet as a mattress topper before i was comfortable. Luckily i spent only one night in the single room

[Moe @Mochievous]

@tosinolaseinde yaay ❤️ 🤣🤣 i could never be!

[Moe @Mochievous]

Whenever I share travel content on instagram, I’m always like “okay so here’s the history of why is is like this”. I share those bits because I find it interesting but always assumed nobody else did.

But then I ran into someone at ArtX and he mentioned how that’s his fav part

[Moe @Mochievous]

Lagos’s social calendar is actually October November. December is a runoff

[Moe @Mochievous]

and it is hilarious because my natural default is cartoon character eyes

[Moe @Mochievous]

My beauty pageant queen bestie taught me how to do this like 15 years ago and till date, it is one of my best tricks I pull out randomly as a conversation starter.

[mauro henri @xtinohenri]

acho impressionante o dom que modelo profissional tem de mudar o olhar normal pra olhar de modelo pronto pra aniquilar na passarela

[Moe @Mochievous]

Because it is home and that’s a complete answer. It should be

[Ken 🧙 @thekenndubisi]

What I actually want to hear more of is the actual rationale behind those who do decide to move back. Like what really is the complete thought process behind such a decision?

[Moe @Mochievous]

I might lose the fight but i did try and that’s the story I’d rather tell.

ps: If you people vote APC again, I already have plans to take a long sabbatical and fight from afar but you get the point.