NIGHT travels have been with us since economic activities and exchanges between one part of the country and the other evolved. It intensified in the 1990's and well into the new millennium when luxury buses became truly more luxurious enough to attract members of the middle class, who felt safer travelling on land than by air.
But night travels started showing more of the flipside when a marked rise in road accidents, robbery attacks and kidnappings became evident. At a point, there were open debates as to whether to ban night travels, but till date neither the federal nor state governments has made such move.
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