The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 025
The weirdest thing can be commonplace in Lagos. You’ve heard it before that the most beautiful girls are single. This is true most of the time. And was quite so wit...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 024
She had it figured out before she stepped a foot on the sands of Lagos. Everyone talked about the energy of this place; particularly, the insurmountable traffic. B...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 023
She was a female Uber driver in Lagos. If you think that is impressive, try this: she was the first female Uber driver in Nigeria. And for her that was both the he...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 022
A long time ago we took pride singing along with Julie Andrews, The hills come alive with sound of music. If you grew up in Lagos, you lost that delusion somewhere you li...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 021
You need to know someone like me to know Lagos. Unless you are someone like me. And even then, knowing Lagos does not just absolutely immune you against some of her shena...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 020
He lived in a two bedroom apartment in Akowonjo in Lagos state. He was 28. And he had a wife as well as three kids. He was poor. But he lived a certain 33 months like a b...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 019
My love for Lagos is like a shotgun marriage – like a storm in a sweet milk and honey tea cup – like the Taylor Swift lyric: I love shiny things but I’ll marry you...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 018
I just wondered randomly about people who are new in Lagos – and on the Island – and who don’t know what to with themselves when the week winds down. I...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 017
Lagos has her scandals without Shonda Rhimes. And they make a better entrance than Olivia Pope. But one evening, I was out kicking back with a few family friends at the E...
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The good, the bad, and the Lagos – 016
Sometimes, and some days, Lagos is Lagos everywhere. In 2014, when I was with the girlfriend who worked with St Nicholas hospital, I met the generic Lagosian. It was the...
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