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"Travelling - It leaves you speechless, then turns to a storyteller." - Idn Battuta Part of my 2016 resolution is travel to a few under-reported countries, at least 3 of them this year and what better time to do that than during the Easter Holidays? Nothing too fancy but good enough to serve its purpose as an excellent hideout away from Lagos and its chaos and heat as well as discover new culture and FOOD of course. So, I cast my dice and it fell on Lome, the capital of Togo. I did some research about the country, checked out for conducive and reasonably affordable hotels as I wasn't expecting extraordinary, and I found Pure Plage. This is a beach resort hotel in Baguida, very close to the city's Grande Market and Port, and I must confess, it is the perfect relaxation spot. The therapeutic effect of the ocean breeze just calms you. The time difference in Togo is just an hour ahead of local time in Nigeria. Togo is a small French speaking country in West A

"Gosh, I finally made it to Makoko floating school. A story I have been longing to do in a while after having done the initial story years ago when the school was being built. After weeks of planning and communicating with the school's director with the help of NLE, here I was walking down narrow paths to get to the jetty.

One rarely sits when your job requires you to rove all and around your world to tell stories about it. I recently visited Ajegunle, a community in the sprawling city of Lagos, Nigeria. In this small community lies an estate of wooden, polythene and zinc roofed shacks built on refuse of about 16 feet deep.