Thanks for posting those hotel photos TonyWilliams ! Wow ! How many flat tires did you get on the drive there ? That I hope is the worst case senario ,although the hotel was nice.
Can't talk for Nigeria but that's a pretty average scenario for a lot of Africa. You avoid burst tyres by very very slow driving but it eventually will cost burst tyres and most gave up on replacing shock absorbers long ago.
As to the hotel being nice, I was looking at the same picture, it looked ok but looks can be deceiving. You get everything from poor sewarage to intermittent power. Nigeria could be better than other places around that region I've stayed in, I wouldn't know.
Don't Arik provide apartments?