So I have always told myself I should lean this programming stuff all these years past mainly because I do love all things tech related and even when whats been discussed flies over my head, I just naturally stick to it. Then year in year out it looks like software is eating the world which only made me more interested but ‘adulting’ took its toll on me with holding a steady but very demanding job in the Quality department of a multinational FMCG company.

Then we also had the twin-time swallower of Youtube and Twitter to deal with, so may hours man, so many hours went there laughing while deep within I was weeping at the hours I could be using to do more productive stuff.

Oh well, that went and ironically while scrolling on Twitter (I keep saying uncool stuff about that website but it really has helped a lot) stumbled on the internship stuff, I registered and here we are so far, keeping late nights after work after some few minutes or hours of Twitter and YouTube to end up writing about my experience of writing codes – sounds bad-ass when I talk about me coding.

Now here I am learning how to link pages to websites, attach pictures and writing my first bit of code, this is still a bit crude and nothing to be boastful of, but before one becomes a master, we all have to start at zero level and work our way up, that is where I am at the moment, a bit of it is shown below

As Davido said, we rise by lifting others, I have to admit that all these I’ve done so far won’t have been possible without the time, effort and dedication of people at https://flutterwave.com/ng/ and https://twitter.com/startdotng for this opportunity to learn this so far and even take in more as we progress along.

that dream to really get to grips with data science still burns within me and accomplishing it one way or another with the proverbial midnight oil is what am willing to do thanks to the awesome team we are all learning from.

It all started with a random picture I stumbled across on Twitter and it was love at first sight. i promised myself to find a way to spend my vacation there despite as at that time I was yet to visit the Northern part of the country.

So I started preparing, reading through many websites and making sure I knew about all I could about the place, I tell you the internet is such a wonderful thing, I could name the different places based on what I saw online. The next question was how do I get there.

So told my friend about it who immediately signed up for it and he wanted us to go by road seeing as we will both be visiting the North for the very first time and he wanted us to fully take in the sights and sounds despite all the dangers and insecurity on that road.

So December came along, leave approved at work and vacation mode fully in place, it was time to tour what this part of Nigeria had in stock for us.

Took off from Lagos around 7AM and amid the heavy traffic that was to be expected at that time of the year, we were able to arrive in Abuja around 8 in the evening, considering our stop in Kogi to behold the beautiful masquerade festival, it was pretty fast even by own expectation.

On getting to Abuja, we had to make a decision whether to continue for the night or rest over there, driver who was a native of Bauchi decided he was going to continue and there I can say was the most heart in mouth moment of my life, driving at over 120km on a one way road around 11pm on the dreaded Kafanchan road is not something I will do again. Nerve wracking!

Well we had to sleep over in Jos when we got in around 1AM, left early for Bauchi in the morning and got to Yankari in the morning, all in all spent at least 18 hours on the road, but boy was it worth it with that Wikki warm spring. Its just so heavenly.

Aside the security challenge, I am hitching to go back there but this time around it will be by flight to Jos and then continue on the road from there. More pleasant places can be found at https://timbu.com/nigeria

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