Census curfew saves lives!

I was about to write a post about the census curfew which I have been enjoying very much so far. To get peace and quiet while I'm trying to work is a huge benefit. Yesterday I spent a while just standing around outside the gate to our compound enjoying the quiet and talking to our security. It's so strange to have empty roads and no traffic noise, most noticably the incessant horns of hurried Nigerian drivers.

I said I was 'about to' write that post because before I logged in to blogger I checked my bbc news feed and spotted a story about the census and decided to read it and about halfway down it says:

In the commercial capital, Lagos, people have been ordered to remain as home and correspondents say the streets are eerily quiet.

This has probably saved lives as the top nine stories of the 21-story bank in the city centre collapsed on Wednesday morning, AP news agency reports.

Wow, sounds nasty, so I did a little browsing and found that CNN had more of a story and a picture. I'm not sure of the legality of posting the picture here so I won't but it gives you a good idea of what happened. For those of you that don't know lagos, this building is reportedly on Broad Street, on Lagos Island the commercial hub of Lagos. In my opinion Broad street is the busiest road in the whole city so the number of lives that have been saved by the curfew in Lagos is very considerable.

Otherwise we have yet to be Enumerated in the census. As I was not eligible for the 2001 UK census I'd quite like my existence to be registered somewhere in the world.

As a final note this is my 150th post! W00t!
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