Living conditions vary greatly. If he's in Lagos their residential compound has pretty lousy rooms, but food is passable, internet is there but slow and there's gym, tennis and swimming. Social life is very limited. If he's working for Shell he'll live on the Shell camp in either warri or Port Harcourt. The houses in these are passable, he can cook for himself if he wants and there are good sporting facilities with tolerable internet. If he goes to Escravos he'll live like a monk in passable housing with internet only when he's at work. If he's at Chevron in Warri the housing is very good as is the food but internet can be a problem. Social life - see the previous replies! If he goes to Port Harcourt he'll live in a good flat with good facilities but a very long journey to work and very variable internet access. If he goes to Eket he'll live in a flea-pit of a hotel with good possibilities of food poisoning or Legionnaire's Disease
. Calabar is a nice town, but the housing is old and insecure as it's on the riverside. Food is passable and internet variable.
A number of the Bristow pilots and engineers who were on married accompanied postings have now changed to touring as it's very hard on wives. The company has a night curfew so social life is restricted to whichever compound you live in. In Lagos you can get out during the day for shopping but if you're in Warri you'll be confined to camp for 10 months a year that you're there and have to use the one crummy, expensive 'suppamakket'
they have there. The local allowance for married accompanied is cr*p and the very few guys I know who do accompanied tours all spend large amounts every month to supplement the pittance they get. They also don't get paid anything more than pilots on 8/4 tours
AFAIK, despite the fact that most staff got a more favourable roster a couple of years back when they changed to 6/6.