One day in February 1992, my father came to see me in school. I was in my first semester at the University of Jos. It was a cold morning. Jos was still shrugging off the harmattan. I dashed out of…
Lagosians like to turn up when there is something cool going down and it was not different with the GTB Food and Drinks festival. In its 3rd year, the Food and Drinks festival has become a fixture on the Lagos…
Your Excellency, we want to respectfully crave your indulgence. Please let us take a peep into the future. It is January 2031. Three gentlemen are in a lounge in Ikeja. They are having after-work drinks. An election campaign advert is…
Wana Udobang is a darling of the Lagos poetry scene. She wears so many hats, a case-study in cutting through many disciplines. A few years ago, she was better known as a radio on-air personality. These days she is the…
It is true that anybody can die anytime, but it Lagos, you could literally be minding your business and Lagos will find ways to kill you. Of course death can come at any time. Some people even say when it…
Review of Ayo Arigbabu’s A Fistful of Tales Dada Books 2009 140pp Ayo Arigbabu is one of those multi-hyphenates: architect, author, publisher and art administrator. The creative and administrative brain behind DADA books, Ayo’s second literary coming happened five years…
In the filmography of Sandra Achums, an actress who ruled the Nollywood screens in the 1990s and early 2000s, one finds listed Gone Forever, a 2006 film. And until recently when she shared pictures of herself and family in her…
The first time I did business at Ikeja Under bridge, I lost 5k. I had just gotten paid at Viju Milk where I did slave labour for 10k a month. I was new in Lagos then, at least to the…
A strong indication of both the quality and failure of politics in Nigeria, as the people look forward to the next general elections in 2019, is the manner in which virtually “every” Nigerian believes that he or she is good…
I had a terrible stutter when I first came to Lagos. The kind that was so bad I couldn’t call out bus stops. You know, a bus would stop and ask and you wouldn’t be able to voice out your…
