'Men At Work'

This sign means it.

They are laying a pipe along the express-way leading to Abuja. But this is not like at home where hard-hatted, steel-toed, yellow vest wearing tea-drinkers push a few buttons on a digger, trundle in with a crane and lay a pipe.

This is a six-kilometer line of bare-chested, flip-flop wearing, pick-axe wielding men at work in the thick, heavy, relentless 40degree heat. At the end of the line, a handful more of men at work (still bare-chested and flip-flop wearing) pour molten tar onto the road from buckets in their un-gloved hands.