A trip to Yaba

For students schooling at areas close to yaba, they would know that yaba market at night is the ultimate shopping experience, especially for gals.
Where do I start from? Is it the shoving and jostling? Or the thousand hands grabbing you to either bring your attention to their wears or just for the fun of it.


Just yesterday, I and some friends needed one thing or the other and decided to go to yaba market together.
The journey started from the College of medicine, University of Lagos ,also the Lagos university teaching hospital (LUTH), where we happened to be students.
Everything was off from the beginning. You know those days when it feels like the universe is wishing against you; everything keeps going wrong? Well, this was one of the days.
Started from crossing the road right in front of the school gate. It seemed like all the bikes and buses were determined not to allow us cross to the other side. After what seemed like forever, there was a lull in the traffic and we crossed.
The short trip duration from LUTH to Ojuelegba tripled when first, the driver decided that he needed to pump/gauge his tire on the way. Then we hit this heavy traffic. The bus was crawling. At a point we had to
get offended walk the remaining distance to ojuelegba.
Then from ojuelegba to yaba is another gist. Not too far from the take off park, the bus stalled. The driver claimed that it was as a result of the petrol in it finishing. As luck would have it, we were close to a filling station. They went to get petrol and fueled the bus. It still refused to move. After a while of  the driver fiddling with the bus in an attempt to get it to work, passengers became impatient and started requesting for a refund of the bus fare since the bus hadn't taken us far but the driver refused to return the monies.

While we were still arguing in that, an half-empty bus heading to yaba passed by and a few of us joined that bus with the previous driver settling the new one.
And so the journey continued until just a bit further when we hit another heavy traffic. This time we weren't even crawling, it was on standstill!
After a while of waiting, we again decided to walk down to Yaba since it was getting very late.

Finally at yaba market ! Anyways, I and my friends had to split up to go buy the different things we wanted.
Then the assault began. "Fine gal, how far? " ,"Orobo come, I get your size.", "My colour, I get boyfriend jeans o! ". So were the calls of the various "ọ́mọ̀ íbòs" selling at yaba. Those guys are so convincing and annoying! They can make you buy packaged shut home. One had to grow a thick skin to be able to ignore them and concentrate on what you came to the market for.


When I was done with my "bend-down-selects" I began to look round for my friends and I couldn't find a single one of them. I kept going back and forth looking around for them but when the touching, pulling and calls of the guys wanting to bring your attention to their wears as well as tap current from anything on skirt😏 became too much, I decided to leave concluding that they had left me behind.

The journey back to school was pretty smooth and uneventful. Well, I got back to school to realize that I was the one who left them behind.
Well all that is behind us but I'll never go to yaba market at night again without remembering this day.
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  1. Hmmm....it is well! One just have to be extra-focus when he/she is in Yaba Market [either for the purpose of marketing or for the sake of itinerary]; cause you may end up buying what is inconsequential if care isn't taken. And about the tapping of current or what have you: if they don't, who will?

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  2. Really you just have to be careful in markets as such, because you might end up in stock and be for sale

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