Lagos, my Lagos, is fast losing its beans. It breaks my heart no end that the choice spots that used to give Lagos its onions are no longer there. For instance, the first ever hotel I lodged in can no…
Aliu Adamu’s hustle in Lagos
Aliu Adamu has one of the best roasted chicken stands in Anthony, Lagos. He tells the story of his Lagos hustle in the video.
Lagos turns up for GTBank Food and Drinks Festival – Toni Kan
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…
Killings: Protests, prayers in Lagos, Benue, Ibadan (Nation)
It was a day of prayers and protests yesterday over the killings in some parts of the country. Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) President Supo Ayokunle called for the protests as a wake-up call to the Federal Government that the…
Lagos and its benighted denizens
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…
My first miracle in Lagos – Toni Kan
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…
Twale to “Lazy Nigerian Youths” – Lucia Edafioka
On Tuesday, I was waiting for a bus to take me to Obalende when I saw a woman calling “Obalende, Obalende.” She was in the bus a few feet away from me but I could not imagine a woman doing…
In Lagos, it is a crime to be a young man – Hymar David
In Lagos, it is a crime to be a young man. As if being a Nigerian youth isn’t enough, you now have the misfortune of living in Lagos where the police like to drive their beat up Hilux trucks, roaming…
How the Mayor Came to Lagos – Toni Kan
My family moved to Lagos in 1991, sometime in October. I was in school at the University of Jos when Reinhard Bonnke came to Kano to host one of his mammoth crusades. It didn’t go right. There was a riot,…