Gah, Frustration! 1 week in Lagos

Sorry for not updating sooner,

I haven't really done much over the last week. Apart from the meeting at our clients office on Friday I have been at home working on my design document for phase 2 software that I intend to start writing as soon as I'm paid up to date. The extra time I have to write this document will I hope pay off at the end of the project when I will have to hand over all such documents to the people who will be operating the software afterwards. It also allows me to thoroughly think through and plan my work for the software so that I can complete it as quickly and effectively as possible.

I also had a short meeting with a gent who works for Lagos State governement on Sunday. He is looking for some software to manage documents submitted for planning applications, it sounds very interesting and I would like to give it a look to see if it's something I could do. Hopefully I should find out a bit more about it soon.

There's been a few events in Lagos recently but in particular, very close to my house, litteraly a five minute walk, Soldiers are evicting by force residents of 5 blocks of flats. The BBC has a report about it. Apparently, according to Cool FM this morning, the residents have a court order to stop the eviction but the Soldiers are still continuing to remove everybody.

The flats were sold off in the last year to a property consortium along with another set of blocks of flats on Victoria Island called "1004 Flats". These are also on the eviction list.

I don't think I mentioned before that we no longer have a cook. Dad and Mike have been supplying the food, I think I should probably get my act together and give it ago sometime soon. Joseph the cook was 'let go' recently along with one of the drivers Charles. I wasn't around at the time so I can't comment on the circumstances, all I can say is that they wern't doing their jobs properly.