“Lagos”

OYO

Lagos -  OYO: (you are) On Your Own is a common expression here. 
Some OYOs:

1. Car park OYO: see picture

2. Area boys area OYO: if you go in their area alone

3. Moving toward RIOT OYO

4. Backing out of the group OYO

5. Pizza on the menu and you do not like pizza OYO. 
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

OYO

Lagos -  Angry waves captured a photographer who came to capture the Lagos Barbeach. Capture and being captured. Eremina…
Eremina Jumbo – Lagos Lab

Opokoro

Lagos -  Woman from eastern in front of her store where she sells stockfish a.k.aOporoko at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

On the meaning of art.

Lagos -  The discussion on the meaning of art was full of shouting humor. Quotes: In our country so many things are not pleasantly looking. Art serves a function here/ Art is…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

NTA

Lagos -  NTA – Nigeria Television Authority is one of the largest TV networks in Africa, also known as Nigeria Trekkers Association. The image shows school children walking home from school either…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

NFA

Lagos -  NFA No Future ambition. Nigerian Football Association Western couples adopting African children has dominated the media recently, sparking debates about whether these children have a better future at home or…
Babasola Bamiro – Lagos Lab

NEPA

Lagos -  NEPA, The Nigerian Electric Power Authority, is so unreliable that people started calling it Never Expect Power Always. Then the company changed its name to PHCN, Power Holding Company of…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Motorpark icecream

Lagos -  On Obalande Motor Park mobile shop selling icecream and gala.…
Eremina Jumbo – Lagos Lab

Mobile life Lagos

Lagos -  Life in Lagos is completely mobile. Everything that doesn’t work in Lagos – and that is a lot – is made operative by the people themselves. The shopkeepers and…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Obeying naturea€™s call

Lagos -  You often see people sleeping during working hours in small-scale business places. This habit struck me. As I tried to find out why this man was sleeping at that time…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Notice on the wall

Lagos -  The notice on the wall asks people not to urinate on the fence. Though the spelling is wrong, if you make an attempt when pressed, you will be amazed where…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

NFA

Lagos -  NFA No Future Ambition. A prayer man at the beach. A common practices in many spaces and beaches in Lagos. In a country where our future is characterized with uncertainties…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

N.Y.S.C. 001

Lagos -  NYSC National Youth Service Corps is the compulsary service to the country for every graduate untill the age of 30. You are send to another part of the country. After…
Israel Ophori – Lagos Lab

Moble cafe

Lagos -  Lagos is city that doesn’t sleep. One of the many mobile café that sell coffee to keep the sense of the teeming mobile people going in Lagos. …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Obeying Nature Call

Lagos -  An old man at sleeping at football pool betting office. Sleeping during working hours is often experienced in many small-scale business places. This habit struck me. As I tried to…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Night Bus to Ajah

Lagos -  At the end of Marina on Lagos Island, this night bus waits to ferry travelers to Ajah in Lekki. Three megaphones in the tree above the bus blare out information…
Folarin Shasanya – Lagos Lab

NFA

Lagos -  NFA – Nigerian Football Association or ‘No Future Ambition’. The way this man sleeps and is dressed indicates that he does not have many plans for the future.…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

N.T.A. 001

Lagos -  Nigerian Television Association, the largest TV Station in Africa. NTA for me means Nigerian Trekkers Association where people have to walk long distances to save money for other purpose and…
Israel Ophori – Lagos Lab

Mobile Telephone booth

Lagos -  With a big umbrella, the cheapest phone of less than 10 dollars many new comers make their daily living through the Mobile Telephone booth popularly known as Payphone that dots…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

NYSC

Lagos -  NYSC TREK – National Youth Service Corps also known as ‘Now Your Suffering Continues’.University students have to do community when they graduate. A compulsory right of passage into working…
Zemaye Okediji – Lagos Lab

NHL No Hurry in Life

Lagos -  This NHL person has a heavenly smile on his face. Definitely a ‘No Hurry in Life’ man. Notice the little straw he holds in his right hand. His slogan is…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Newcomers

Lagos -  The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Northerners, newcomers, exhausted from the many days journey southward, onboard goods and livestock supply truck, can always…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

N.F.A. 001

Lagos -  N.F.A. Nigerian Football Association. NO FUTURE AMBITIONS as well. These are children who should be at school. They are roaming, begging and playing on the streets. If the…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Mobile shops

Lagos -  Street Hawkers (Mobile shops) emerge to do their trade while the hold up continues, left with them the traffic should go on as it makes them do their trade. Different…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab