Oluwakemi Abimbola
One of the richest men in Nigeria, Femi Otedola, was one of the passengers in a commercial bus popularly known as Molue.
On its own, Molue readily qualifies as a tourist attraction, being peculiar to the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos State.
Molue is notorious for the unusual ways operators jam-pack passengers, with less people sitting and more people standing, packed like sardines.
Molue is variously called Osa Straight!, Maul E, etc., as a result of some terrible accidents involving Lagosians’ popular means of transportation in the 1980s.
Then, a handful of Molue buses had been involved in gory accidents that led to the death of tens of passengers; while, on at least one occasion, Molue drove straight into the Lagos lagoon during an incident credited to brake failure, sinking all the passengers on board.
In the early hours of the day when Lagosians…
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