Cell phones are everywhere. Cell phone card sellers, and business establishments are everywhere. People sell cell phone cards on every street corner, they will stand at your vehicle and wave the cards around until you tell them to go... And if your driving, you can wave a cell phone taxi down... We are always stopping to buy more minutes, 100 nairos here, 400 nairos here, yet they NO ONE ever seems to have any "naira" (minutes) on their cell phones. Its always a conversation piece... "do you have any, I don't have any "naira""... A culture dependent on their cell phones (yes worse than in Canada...) the only difference, is there is no landlines.. they have become outdated.. but they never really worked anyways it was told.
Tidbit: They even mention in church services to "turn off your phones, this is the house of God", lest there be a choir of cell phone rings...which is the case everywhere else.
Both photos, above and below show typical phone card merchants. You can buy minutes here for your cell OR use the merchant's cell and pay for the call, the equivalent to our(Canadian) "pay phones"...
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