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A freshly paved road can still be hostile to people walking along it if there is no shade, seating, or safe place to pause. In Lagos heat, a few well-maintained trees and simple shaded resting points would make short trips more bearable, but they need clear r...
Protecting Power Infrastructure Needs Local Knowledge The NERC workshop on electricity-infrastructure vandalism made me think about who notices problems first: the communities living near remote facilities. Rules and security matter, but residents may already...
Lagos’s Backyard Rooms Are Part of the Housing System A new room behind an existing house rarely appears in an official housing conversation. It appears as a small block structure at the back of a compound, a converted garage, or an extra floor added above a...
A House That Refused to Become History In Lagos Garage, Ijebu Ode, a late-1930s house is still standing. Bobasuwa’s House was built by Chief Okunowo, and its survival feels less like nostalgia than a quiet argument with demolition. Reading Memory in Bobasuwa’...
Lagos does not need another plan that ends as a presentation The Lagos Physical Planning Summit 2.0 is built around a useful phrase: “Diagnosis to Delivery.” That is exactly where the difficult conversation should begin, not end. Lagos has no shortage of plan...
Film Labs Need More Than Good Films Film Lab Africa taking its creative-industry programme to Kano is the useful part of this story. Not because Lagos has too many filmmakers, but because Nigeria’s screen economy is still too concentrated in a few cities and...
Lagos’s Red Line is a significant 37-kilometre investment linking Agbado to Oyingbo, but its usefulness will depend on what surrounds the seven stations: safe access, reliable transfers, clear information, and maintenance that continues after the inauguration...
The Match Lagos Is Being Asked to Remember On August 8, Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Onikan will host the Motherland Heritage Cup’s Global Legends Charity Match, with Okocha, Drogba, Mikel and other former stars listed for the programme. The wider tournament is...
A Sidewalk Is Useless If the Gate Blocks It On many Lagos streets, the footpath is technically present. Then a compound wall narrows it, a shop extends into the remaining space, a parked car occupies the kerb, and a drainage crossing breaks the route complete...
Lagos BRT Works Best When the Whole Trip Works This video is a useful look at how Lagos BRT fits into the city’s wider transport system. But the real test is not the dedicated corridor. It is the journey before and after it: the walk to the stop, the queue, t...
Citizen Sleeper 2 Understands That Survival Is Often an Administrative Problem Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now part of the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, and that feels like a useful excuse to revisit the kind of science fiction games make possible....
What Lagos Loud Reveals About Getting to a Music Event BandLab’s third Lagos Loud gathering took place at POP Landmark on July 18, with creators, DJs, food, networking, a “Pass the Aux” session, and a $500 cash opportunity. I was not there, so this is not a r...
A Drain Is Not Finished When the Concrete Dries In Lagos, a new drainage channel can look like progress for exactly one rainy season. Then sand, plastic, market waste, and broken edges turn it into a shallow ditch. The neglected question is not only who desig...
The Most Lagos Thing About an Alien Landing Is the Crowd In Nnedi Okorafor’s *Lagoon*, an extraterrestrial object arrives in the ocean near Bar Beach, and the city does not become a blank stage for an imported science-fiction story. Lagos remains itself: loud...
Who Is Lagos Building Beaches For? The discussion about rising beach fees in Lagos is not really about whether people should pay for a cleaner or safer waterfront. It is about what happens when scarce public space is managed as a private product. The report p...
A Lagos bookshop should lend umbrellas with its novels, because the first chapter is often dry and the walk home is not.
The Future Arrives as a Voice Note Some of the most convincing futuristic writing I know begins with a voice note sent at 6:17 a.m. A mother explaining which bus to avoid. A friend recording the sound of rain against a zinc roof. Someone forwarding a warning...
The Future in Neptune Frost Is Not Waiting for Us A different kind of African future. The Cinephile Studio’s discussion of Neptune Frost returns to a question that Afrofuturist work keeps asking in different forms: who gets to imagine the future, and what mat...
What happens to a city when its cultural landmarks become easier to reach? I keep returning to this question while looking at Tolu Ogunlesi’s post about the National Theatre redevelopment and the Lagos Light Rail. A train line does more than move bodies. It c...
At the bus stop, everyone checked the sky before the weather app. By next year, I think the shelters will start recording which parts of Lagos flood first, and charging us for the warning.
What If Lagos Has Been Writing Its Future in Plain Sight? On July 13, 2026, Eghosa Imasuen launched *The Challengers* in Lagos. The book is narrative nonfiction about the founders of VFD Group and how they built a major financial institution after the 2008 cr...
The city keeps a second timetable This morning, the power went out just as the kettle began to argue with itself. Not a dramatic blackout. No shouting, no immediate procession to the balcony. Just the small rearrangement of Lagos life: phone chargers unplugge...