There’s this song that they used to play on the radio when I was a child. A part of the song says ‘money no dey come from heaven, do better thing more go come, na true word I dey tell…
Dear Nigerian, everything is not a spiritual problem biko – Lucia Edafioka
I was on a bus on my way home one Wednesday evening when I noticed a little boy was trying to open the zip of an old man’s purse who was sitting beside him and his mum. The boy was…
Lagos will break your heart – Lucia Edafioka
There are many shortcuts I take home, but I have noticed something on one of them: in the morning there is an old man in rags with little tumours all over his skin but by evening a younger man takes…
Dear dog owner, hold your dog biko – Lucia Edafioka
There are dogs and there are lion-dogs, abi what do you want me to call those huge monstrous animals people now keep in their homes in the name of pet dogs? I have no problem with what you keep in…
Lagosians, life is not that serious – Lucia Edafioka
Once upon a time, I was a hip-hop head. I have a record that makes me cringe anytime I hear it to show for that period of my life. In that time, two of the choc boys- Jesse Jagz and…
My love affair with a Yaba boy – Lucia Edafioka
My feet found themselves in Yaba the other day. I had to braid my hair; the girl who usually comes to my house has become too slow and I am very impatient, plus it’s been very long since I went…
Lagos people can do over-sabi – Lucia Edafioka
Have you ever wondered what will happen if a Lagosians owns up that he or she doesn’t know something? I think, maybe, their heads will fall off. Ever missed your way before? Then you stopped to ask people along the…
Story story – Lucia Edafioka
Story, story… Once upon a time, some men left their homeland in search of a better place because hunger was almost wiping them off the earth. They embarked on a journey to look for a new place where they could…
This Lagos can drive somebody mad o – Lucia Edafioka
Just when I think I have run out of things to write about Lagos, the city points and laughs at me. This city is – one week, one madness. As a child, I had relatives in Lagos who when they…
Lagos pollution na wa – Lucia Edafioka
I stepped out of Lagos for a minute, actually I was dragged out of Lagos, but that is a story for another day. I spent over 10 hours on the road (our roads are terrible), especially going to the east.…
