Meet True Lagosians

Meet True Lagosians

 

Lagos is, the most popular city in Nigeria and maybe even in Africa. Not only is it filled with a lot foreigners and is all-encompassing, it offers countless opportunities to its inhabitants as well as visitors. The city adopts thousands of new residents each year, and you don’t need to be an indigene of Lagos state to be a lagosian.

There are certain signs that generally suggests that you are a real “son of the soil.

Real Lagosians do not refer to the city as ‘Lagos’, many of them use the term “Eko” while the young and trendy ones call it “Lasgidi”. If you hear any real Lagosian make say “Lagos”, they are most likely talking about the Victoria Island part of the State.

You are always vigilant and in a hurry as a Lagosian, Real Lagosians understand what it means to always  stay sharp and move fast, and it has become second nature to them.

A true Lagosian will never!, lie lie! keep his or her things carelessly in public places or walk sluggishly on the streets, especially crowded streets.

Lagosians like parties! and so they find opportunities to enjoy themselves. Weekends are basically set aside for parties (owambes with aso ebi o) with Friday nights spent in one of the many nightclubs and lounges around the city.

It's only in Lagos you can walk, eat, talk on the phone and hop on a bus, at the same time!! Every true Lagosian operates with the ideology ‘time waits for no man’, and so, they learn tricks and ways to juggle different activities at the same time.