The first time I flew into Houston, a city in Texas , I felt like I was back home in Lagos. Even on this trip and despite the end of summer, I still have the same feeling. From time to time, the sun becomes pre-eminent like it usually is back home, but the difference here is that seeing a blazing sun in the horizon does not mean cold is far away. Cold can descend on you without warning.
Like Lagos, Houston is diverse; more diverse. It has people from almost every part of the world: Indians, Mexicans, Nigerians, Chinese, Japanese and all. Its status as a port city helps it attract people from far and near. Its rail system, I observe, serves only the ports, from which goods are moved to warehouses and elsewhere. I have not seen containers being moved on the road here and I expect to see this in Lagos when the rail project to the Apapa ports is completed.
Houston does not have the New York or Chicago feel, but it is still miles apart from Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt. Nigerians will praise their leaders to high heavens if just one city can have the infrastructure in Houston. Its bridges and flyovers are deliberate attempts to shorten distance and make people get to their destinations on time. There are tall flyovers here and there, which are engineered towards making the people have smooth ride to and fro.
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