Foreword
When you travel, the odds are in your favor that you will have a safe and incident-free trip. Travelers are, however, sometimes victimized by crime and violence, or experience unexpected difficulties.
We have prepared the following travel tips to help you avoid serious difficulties during your next planned interstates travel. We wish you a safe and wonderful journey!
BEFORE YOU GO
What to Take
Safety begins when you pack. To help avoid becoming a target, do not dress so as to mark yourself as an affluent person. Expensive-looking jewelry, for instance, can draw the wrong attention.
Always try to travel light. You can move more quickly and will be more likely to have a free hand. You will also be less tired and less likely to set your luggage down, leaving it unattended.
Carry the minimum number of valuables, and plan places to conceal them. Your valuables, cash and credit cards are most secure when locked in a secured place. When you have to carry them on your person, you may wish to put them in various places rather than all in one wallet or pouch. Avoid handbags, fanny packs and outside pockets that are easy targets for thieves. Inside pockets and a sturdy shoulder bag with the strap worn across your chest are somewhat safer. One of the safest places to carry valuables is in a pouch or money belt worn under your clothing.
If you wear glasses, pack an extra pair. Bring them and any medicines you need in your carry-on luggage.
To avoid problems when passing through customs, keep medicines in their original, labeled containers. Bring copies of your prescriptions and the generic names for the drugs. If a medication is unusual or contains narcotics, carry a letter from your doctor attesting to your need to take the drug. If you have any doubt about the legality of carrying a certain drug your doctor before you travel.
Take ATM, credit cards instead of cash.
Put your name, address and telephone numbers inside and outside of each piece of luggage. Use covered luggage tags to avoid casual observation of your identity. If possible, lock your luggage.
Consider getting a mobile line that can be reachable or get major covered network telephone. It is a convenient way of keeping in touch. If you have one, verify that you can use it from your location(s).
What to Leave Behind
Don't travel with anything you would hate to lose. Leave at home:
- valuable or expensive-looking jewelry
- irreplaceable family objects
- all unnecessary credit cards
- your Documents, Social Security card, library card, and similar items you may routinely carry in your wallet.
Leave a copy of your itinerary with family or friends at home in case they need to contact you in an emergency.
Make two photocopies of your National identification card, driver's license and the credit cards that you plan to bring with you. Leave one photocopy of this data with family or friends at home; pack the other in a place separate from where you carry the originals.
What to Learn About Before You Go
Security
The Department of State's Security Police are available for every state security and Federal Road Safety Commission always on the road checkmating high speed driving and other road driving offenses. They also provide addresses and emergency telephone numbers.
Travel Alerts
Travel alerts are a means to disseminate information about relatively short-term conditions posing significant risk to the security of travelers. They are issued when there is a perceived threat of road accident especially during festive period by the Federal Road Safety Commission.
Emergency Telephone
Nigeria Police hot lines 09-234-5600, 08033458600 they can answer general inquiries on safety and security other emergency numbers are 911, 115, 08029000004, 08029000005, 800, 197, 942, 112, 999,
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