FERT

Humans of Lagos "She's 22, and I'm 39. She loves me, I think I love her back. However, she wants me to be affectionately romantic with her like I used to do with my ex. The one that left me when I needed her the most. I'm no longer cut out for those petty romances. I want a relationship that will be defined through the lens of my new worldview, which is to be practical as romance is dead. Now, that's the huge gap between us and not the age. Anyways, I asked her to move on, she'll never be able to understand. She felt that I used and dumped her. Yes, I deflowered her, but that's just life. Virginity is a myth anyways. She cannot see that I'm not healed from my past relationship, she doesn't know that though my ex is happily married with three kids, I'm still waiting for her to come back to me. This lovey dovey girl doesn't know that she's in love with a maniac." © FERT, 2017

Humans of Lagos "I witnessed an unexpected drama between a soldier and a police. I was inside a commercial bus heading to Agbado when a soldier and a police officer began fighting in the vehicle over the right not to pay the transport fare. SOLDIER: I just return from Boko Haram battleground, I go beat you die. You no no me. POLICEMAN: You no dey look face. Na me arrest Evans the kidnapper. I go teach you a hard lesson. SOLDIER: Make the driver park somewhere make we do little boxing. I go destroy your head. POLICE: You no fit! On and on they went. I had to intervene because this Superiority of abuse drama is becoming a circus. I said, 'Oga sirs, no fight biko. I know say na the love for the country wey wan make you dey fight una sef. No allow make the devil come for your heads here, I go pay for all of una.' They disengaged from their altercation tsunami to give me cold stares.  It's so bad in this city that the public officers no longer fight for justi...