Another mall, guys. Let’s get ready! From July 18, Alada Market as we know it will cease to exist. After a protracted legal tussle, traders are finally moving. A new mall development is being championed by a Masters Reality International Concepts Ltd (couldn’t get much info for them online) as part of a Build-Operate-Transfer deal…
On a recent drive down Herbert Macaulay Road in Yaba, I saw this: Casino Cinema is now a literal shell of itself. For real, guys. Perhaps I haven’t visited Yaba often enough recently, or I just never noticed; but I was genuinely taken aback. My darling Casinoooo. What are they doing to it? New owners? Or…
So… It turns out we aren’t that special after all . 😞 I really wanted us to be special. Oh well… A good friend of mine who blogs here sent this to me after reading the Keke Konvertible post: The major thing is that this one seems to be converted from the beginning. So, of…
Only in Lagos… … can keke (tricycles) become chauffeured convertibles. I’ve seen tricycles in different shapes and sizes, and with different modus operandi, in some cities (Delhi, London, and of course Lagos) in the world. And I have NEVER seen anything like this. Never, Lagosians are oftentimes accused of propagating an exaggerated narrative of life in…
Is it a top secret government facility? Err, that wouldn’t make sense as it’s so conspicuous. Maybe it’s some experimental building form? Some kind of factory? Secret society headquarters? Again, too conspicuous… It could always be a new church. Nope. I rode past this building twice before it finally clicked that it’s Maryland Mall. So, yes, another…
I’m actually more surprised than you are that a bank is going to be the first in a series of engaging spaces in Lagos. I never expected it. ;-D So I find myself on the University of Lagos campus, and I need to get cash asap. There’s a bank right across the road, obviously I head there.…
So I came across this concept deign by Merge-XI Architecture – an architectural firm based in Lagos. The whole ideas is that the building is powered by energy from piezoelectricity. What’s that? There are some materials that create electric charge when they are subjected to mechanical stress or squeezing, Piezoelectricity is simply the electricity created by such…
I had only ever seen what I call ‘the animal drive by’ in funny memes on social media. But on this auspicious day, I saw one live and direct on Lakkei-Epe Expressway. So of course, I had to take pictures! 😀 To be fair, this is probably not strictly ‘only in Lagos’; but it works to…
Besides words like “the”, “is”, and the like, urbanism is probably going to be one of the most used word on BYU. Considering that some spell-checkers still identify the word as an error, it only makes sense to define it, Most people know urbanisation – the process of transformation from rural to urban centre. It’s pretty much the…
… Are seat-belts vehicular decor; in this case, external vehicular decor. While in traffic the other day, I noticed something hanging off the rear end of a danfo.
Here at BYU, one of our main goals is to encourage citizen participation. Why? Well, at the risk of sounding corny, we believe that the city should be of the people, by the people and for the people. So, we aim to get as many voices as possible in on the discourse on urban life in Lagos,…
It’s rainy season in Lagos. And if you’re in Lagos right now, you know when we talk about rain we don’t mean some pleasant dancing-in-the-rain rain. We’re talking tropical rainforest showers that transform the city. The rain comes down in torrents like the sky just ate hot yam and is trying to dump its contents asap…
“Seven Billion People. One Planet. Consume with Care.” “By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same and with a rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain our ways of living and consumption.” – UNEP Statement
I could’t resist the pun 😀 Alright, so if you were in Lagos over the past two weeks, you must have experienced the fuel shortage issue in one way or the other. Perhaps, through a hike in transport fees, reduced mobility, hours spent on a horrible queue, “black-market” sale of fuel, or sightings of plastic kegs…
The annual Lagos Carnival held on the 9th of May this year! Whoop! I decided to go. but it was going to be a full day for me. The parade was supposed to kick off at 10 am; and I had choir practice for that exact time. Rehearsals wouldn’t end till 2 pm and then I had Celebrate…
Black and Yellow Urbanism 