Every Journey a Gamble: Life on Benin-Warri Road of pains

By Egufe Yafugborhi
By the time dawn breaks over Benin City, motorists heading for Warri have already accepted one certainty: no one knows when the journey will end.
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What should take barely an hour often stretches into six, eight or even an entire day.
Articulated trucks sink into craters that swallow their tyres, commercial buses weave dangerously between failed sections.
Traders watch perishable goods rot in traffic, while stranded commuters keep one eye on the road and another on the surrounding bushes, fearful of kidnappers and armed robbers.
For thousands who depend on the Benin-Sa...