Hi there!
My name is Liesbeth, one of the four management assistants who is going to inform you about our trip.
My name is Liesbeth, one of the four management assistants who is going to inform you about our trip.
When we
arrived at the national airport of Abuja, which name is too difficult to
pronounce (Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport) it felt like I was going to
melt! It was so hot, I just wanted to drink a few litres of water! And, like
Célestine said, it was a real culture shock. I did not know what to expect, but
I knew one thing, Nigeria was a country so different than a western country. We
drove to our hotel where we could unpack our suitcases and fresh up. After a long
and good shower and our first meeting, we decided to go to the city. I heard
that Nigeria offered a lot of beautiful buildings. Of course, we could not visit
all those buildings in one day so we decided to visit the buildings in Abuja first
and then travel on to Lagos, another big city. Here is an overview of the
buildings we visited.
We visited
the four towers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Abuja. It are
amazing buildings and modern too. They are also very high, 75 metres! The buildings
are used for people who work at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNC).The government employs those people to work for the petroleum industry in
Nigeria. I took a photograph, that you can find bellow:
After
spending a lot of time in that neighbourhood, we had to go to our second
meeting about the ‘importance of petroleum and oil in Nigeria’. That is the
main industry in Nigeria, the most important one. It was very tiring because
the air conditioning was not working and they had to open the windows. We could
hear the noise from the busy streets so it was very hard to focus.
The next
day, we had a meeting in the afternoon, so we went to the Central Bank of
Nigeria in the morning. This building is also a very impressive! I had to take
a photo of that building and share it with you because it really is worth
visiting!
The next day, we had a
very interesting meeting about the environmental problems in Nigeria. Oil and
petroleum are the most important industries in Nigeria. But it has also a lot
of disadvantages. It is very damaging for the environment and for the Niger Delta river, fish and aquatic plants. I hope that we can
find a solution to make the most important industry in Nigeria less harmful.
When I was
sitting in a park that afternoon, I was thinking about all the impressions that
week. I was thinking about all the poverty, about children and older people
begging for money or food, to see that those people almost live on the streets…
It was hard to see those people struggle. I hope that one day, the poverty in
Nigeria (it has the largest number of people who are poor, comparing to other
countries in Africa) will decrease!
Talk to you
later!
Liesbeth
Sources:
http://www.emporis.com/city/abuja-nigeria/existing-buildings http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=31849
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Nigeria
3 relevant
real-life examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta http://www.africaw.com/major-problems-facing-nigeria-today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
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