Abuja by Night
I got the following pictures through a forwarded mail from a friend. The pictures are not mine, they are for Havitouch(see email address below). I took permission to post them here. Isn’t Abuja awesome….(thanks to NEPA).
enjoy
heres the whole email:
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hello friends
I thought I should share this with you.
I came to Abuja for the first time in October last year and resumed for work immediately.
It was challenging at first because I had to manage the Digital Department of a press(the people I met had their own way of doing things) I mean the task was enormous. Also, everything about the job was urgent. I had no choice but to adjust. At a point I needed to show some creativity so as to remain relevant to the job.
My mother taught me basic things I needed to know about photography. Mr. Segun Akisanya (Studio 7, Abeokuta) taught me advance skills in photography giving me magazines to read.
It was time to design a calendar for the company but I was out of ideas. until I saw a calendar that sparked off this idea that had been with me for many years. Dr. Bisi Ogunjimi was indeed a motivator of this idea. He encouraged me about 9 years ago when I was still into active photography to take the night shots I had dreamt of doing. I wonder why it has taken me so long to actualise this dream.
I almost gave up the idea one but for my wife who gave me reasons not to. I appreciate her presence in my life. She is in-deed God’s gift.
It took 4 nights across 3wks to take the pictures. The earliest we ever got home was 12am. On one occasion it was 1am, and during such nights we were either harassed by mobile police or by soldiers, infact, we nearly did “frog Jump” at the city gate of Abuja.
The following people supported me during those nights: Tochukwu Ifemena, Gabriel Akpeh, Henry Ojaide, Japheth Nwafor.
To cut the long story short, I present to you what I renamed The Night Shift.
The Quality of the pictures have been reduced so as to discourage an undue advantage of it for profit reasons.
A higher resolution is available on demand at havitouch@yahoo.com
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ABUJA CITY GATE
CBN-HQ ABUJA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER, ABUJA
THE REGENT GROUP, CORPORATE HQ
NATIONAL ECUMENICAL CENTER
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
NNPC TOWERS, ABUJA
UNITY FOUNTAIN, BESIDE TRANSCORP
Abuja is fine…
When i went to Abuja, I remember thinking “Am i still in Nigeria?”….unfortunately, i spent just 2 days there.
These night pictures are lovely!
Is that really NEPA/PHCN?
Nice!
pls can’t we get a full picture of the unity fountain in abuja of all side views and a picture viewing the unity fountain from above and site plan.
what a lovely pics
pls can anyone send my historic facts about abuja city gate.
wish all other parts of nigeria could be as beautiful as abuja
abuja is mind blowing. i lived in the city of dubai for close to 7 yaers. most of the nigerians in diaspora who have not had time to visit ,feel nigeria is still what it used to be infrastucture wise some couples of year back,i fell into that category too, until i visited the immaculate abuja.
two thumps up for my lovely country
Abuja is quite incredible.It is a symbol of our country’s glorious future but are there plans for metro transport service?
Brother, seeing pic like this gives me something to be proud of despite our country’s short comings…pls keep up the good work
i realy dont know wat 2 say but i im out of nigeria for 10 yh now but all i can say is i im proud of u all, nice 1
i am a free citizen of nigeria,and will ever remain proud to be a nigerian,i reside in paris for the past 6years, i came to paris not becouse my country is bad, is becouse i need to see and learn things about being an organise person, is not easy to rule a community not to talk of a country i congratulate our leaders,if we should recall back to history, america was once like us, so we all have to grow one, i also ask all nigerian citizen out side to love and appreciate there biological country, thanks
i am a free citizen of nigeria,and will ever remain proud to be a nigerian,i reside in paris for the past 6years, i came to paris not becouse my country is bad, is becouse i need to see and learn things about being an organise person, is not easy to rule a community not to talk of a country i congratulate our leaders,if we should recall back to history, america was once like us, so we all have to grow one day, i also ask all nigerian citizen out side to love and appreciate there biological country, thanks
Very nice. I’m proud of my country!
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wow! astonishing, i mean very nice but it wont be a crime if the other 36 states measure up as well . please lets distribute the Abuja sparkles to other parts of the country aslso . thanks
I don’t realy appriciate ‘cos why the National mosque picture is not included? Lets show we are one nation.
NICE JOB WELL DONE BY THE GOOD STATESMEN AND WOMEN OF FRN. WE ARE RICH ENOUGH TO EXTEND THIS TO ALL THE 36 STATES OF THE COUNTRY. PLEASE DO PUT IT YOUR BUDGET MR PRESIDENT.
PADIENCO FROM THE U.K
GOD BLESS
This is lovely Abuja a beautiful place at night send this to everyone.
I left Nigeria most 15yrs ago and i have been finding it very cumbersome not to think about that great country with all the resources and human potential we have .The more i’m seeing all those unbelievable structures back there the more it hungrys me to just jump into plane and go to where i’m naturally belong to. Up Nigeria and I love what i have seen here and thanks to youtube which make this possible for us to see possitive things coming out from our proud nation (green-white-green)