by Cheta Nwanze and Kolapo Olapoju

When the Lagos state government announced that Wednesday, 15 October would be a ‘No Horn day’, it was greeted with widespread scepticism as naysayers, critics, cynics, and even majority of the public deemed it to be an exercise in futility.

The government stated that the purpose of the ‘No horn day’ was to reduce noise pollution within the metropolis and also to make drivers and motorists more responsible as they ply Lagos roads.

Understandably, only a few Lagosians gave it any chance of succeeding, because the city is associated with excessive honking and irate and impatient drivers. Basically, all indications showed that it was doomed to fail.

But the day came and not only did private vehicle drivers behave themselves by hardly honking, even the commercial bus drivers put their best foot forward as they tried their damnedest to honk as minimally as possible.

Taking a drive from Surulere to beyond Ojota, it was quite surprising to hear just a few car horns along Ikorodu road, which would normally be an orchestra of car horns.

We managed to capture the drive down the Ikorodu road on camera, and we bet you’d be as surprised as we were; to discover that ‘No horn day’, although not an entire success, wasn’t a total failure, although those pedestrians dashing across under the bridges did their best to test the patience of motorists…

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