Calabar, Nigeria’s Tourism Capital, Has Fallen!!! (1)

Once famed for its well-kept lawns, boulevards, pristine streets, painted medians, beautiful people and lush greenery, Calabar, the capital, now looks like paradise lost. Most street lights in the city no longer glow at night time, lamp-posts are falling over, flash floods sack settlements from clogged drainage; and potholes that can pass for valleys obstruct vehicular movement from 8 Mile to Parliamentary Extension, to Lemna, to Watt market, to Uwanse, to Ekpo Abasi, to Goldie, to Mbukpa and...