2022
I was privileged to visit the border between Nigeria and Cameroon and realised what a blessing it is that I live right at the end of Nigeria.
it was an exciting trip today as I set out with my brother and his wife. My brother is a pastor and today was an exchange of pulpit for rural pastors to swap preaching points with urban pastors.
I offered to join him as I knew there would be opportunities for exploring.
We left calabar at 7:25am and got to Ikang bakassi at 8:16am.
it was a scenic drive with children bathing in road side ponds and villagers going about their idyllic lifestyle.
The journey went through akpabuyo local government area then on to bakassi local government area.
The church happened to be right beside a hotel called anthovera hotel which was wrongly mapped so first thing I did was relocate the map marker.
AFter the church service we went on a guided tour with one of the members who is a policeman at the border post.
i was excited to see speedboats pulling up from Cameroon and also boats being loaded to leave. The journey by sea takes 1;45mins to Cameroon.
We met an immigration officer who was on his way to check the papers of the traders leaving for Cameroon.
i took photos of a badge belonging to NNPC the national oil corporation which had been floating at sea for years and had finally lodged itself at the pier.
We left for calabar at 12pm and today was one of the best sundays in this year so far for me.
