Lagos bus conductors are as terrible as the buses they hang out of shouting bus stops. You know how they say danfos are death traps, ready to tear your clothing and kill you if possible? The conductors are even much…
Help, Nigeria is making people run mad! – Lucia Edafioka
Most of you must have read the story about a man who killed his wife, cut her body into pieces and buried the pieces in different locations around Lagos. I was around the location when the story started unfolding. See,…
Lagos has spoilt me o – Lucia Edafioka
This ole girl travelled out of Lagos for the Christmas holidays. Getting out of Lagos was a war on its own. Everybody and their mummy were travelling. At a point I asked myself if going home to Warri was worth…
Something is missing from Lagos’ logo – Lucia Edafioka
I was playing on the internet the other day when I stumbled upon the logo for Lagos. I have never really paid attention to it before until then. I zoomed in. Palm trees, fishermen, yellow colour and some cowrie-like things,…
We are our own government in Nigeria – Lucia Edafioka
Sometime ago the second floor of the building I live in caught fire. One minute I was lounging, eating dinner, the next, adrenaline took over and I found myself downstairs running out of the building with my bare feet. When…
This our Lagos is too violent – Lucia Edafioka
Lagos finds new ways to torture one mentally every time you step out of your house. This city is so violent, it is scary. A person could be walking next to you and next thing they are dead from a…
Why do Lagosians always over-do things? – Lucia Edafioka
On one Wednesday, November 1, which is All Saints day, yours truly decided to attend Mass. There’s a Catholic church close to the office, so off I went. Outside the office, across the road I saw a fully grown man…
Sometimes Lagos works, sha – Lucia Edafioka
Don’t you just hate it when people with power run you off the roads with their convoys and sirens? You see people, especially men in uniform, who we all know are not going anywhere important, use sirens just because they…
My people, Nigeria has only one problem: rats – Lucia Edafioka
I once wrote a piece about the misleading theme in PSquare’s Bank alert video? In it, I said a huge number of Nigerian men caught for drug trafficking abroad are Igbo, and many people were angry. Once I was gisting…