Lasgidi of Nigeria: This is Lagos

By: Friday Reign

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Lagos, the economic city of West Africa and the choice of investors is a nation that is located inside another nation. Small in size yet accommodating the highest numbers of churches, mosques, companies, banks and recreational centres in West Africa.

Lagos, the home of over 20million Nigerians, is recognized by her yellow buses with black stripes, bridges cutting across bridges and people inhaling the breath of other people. Life in Lagos is hard for the weak and too complicated for the simple; it is only in Lagos people get paid for using overhead bridges and these payment is as a result of the carelessness of those in front of them.

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Lagos do not sleep; by 4am, she is awake and she does not go to bed until 2am. While men retire to their beds in other parts of the country, that is when Iya Shukura in Mushin is parboiling the rice she intends selling and Iya Chukwudi in Ajegunle is frying the akara that she must sell that night. I heard nobody enters a bus in Abuja until the bus stops right in front of them, Eeeew, don't try that in Ojuelegba. You will sleep there.

Lagos is too hazardous for the meek and if you are one of those that can't be patient enough not to taste a plantain while frying it, then you cannot survive the traffic in Lagos; I assure you. If perhaps, you missed your way in Lagos as a first timer, please locate a place called OSHODI. Are you listening to me? Yes, from oshodi, you can get a bus going to Jerusalem.

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Lagos is too hazardous for the meek and if you are one of those that can't be patient enough not to taste a plantain while frying it, then you cannot survive the traffic in Lagos; I assure you. If perhaps, you missed your way in Lagos as a first timer, please locate a place called OSHODI. Are you listening to me? Yes, from oshodi, you can get a bus going to Jerusalem.

Lagos is the centre of excellence, the city of drama, the destination of hustlers and the very hub of global entertainment. Lagos is her own star. If you have not been to Lagos before, should we call you a Nigerian?