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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...

Story of two jolly friends. Once upon a time, two chickens moved together, ate together, and are fond of themselves. They were happy friends, that shared both their ups and downs. So it happened that one of the chickens was struck by sickness. She could not eat, hence she lost the energy to walk and work. All her friend's efforts at persuading her to eat proved abortive. It became obvious that the ailing chicken would not survive the sickness. Then the healthy one stopped eating in solidarity with her sick friend. In no time, she became sick herself. The chicken that was about to die opened her eyes to see her now sick friend. "Why did you build this sickness in your body?" she asked. "I cannot imagine living without you." She responded. The death-bound chicken told her not to give up on living because of her. "We were not born on the same day. No matter how much Eagle's mother loves her eaglets, they will someday separate. I appreciat...

Humans of Lagos "I traveled out of Lagos to execute a project with some other colleagues, but when they paid everyone my bank account detail was omitted; hence I got no pay. A friend assisted me by sending money to me, she was debited but I wasn't credited. This morning, I lost a huge amount of money which has officially rendered me bankrupt. Still, people are owing me, yet they all act as if they can't remember being indebted to me by paying me what they owe. But why are all these happening to me? A friend said that I needed prayers. But I know so many prayerful people whose conditions are worse off than mine. So I'm sitting here at Contemplation Park, thinking about how things went wrong. I reckoned that I might not have been actively asking for what belonged to me, as people may dodge paying until one is tenaciously asking to be paid. Also, maybe I'm too carefree, or my survival Instinct isn't rugged enough for these things. Introspectively, ...

Humans of Lagos "In this city, we have more religious centres than companies, hence, less job for millions of job seekers. Yet, I'm still baffled that these proliferate religious centres couldn't solve the inhumane treatments faced by most people in the city. For instance, in my street, a wealthy but childless religious couple that adopted a physically challenged girl to raise was doing the unthinkable. The wife encouraged her husband to be having sex with the girl so she could get pregnant for them. The wife did this because she would rather not compete with other women over her husband. A highly preferred option to a second wife in her opinion. They maltreated the innocent lady until her death. The siblings of the dead girl had a hand in this. They had given the girl away to the rich couple at the demise of their parents because they were embarrassed by her condition. She would droll as she talked and walked haphazardly. The church that all the parties att...

A bird that will like to fly high, must learn to fly alone. SERVICE! If my goal in life is to make all the money, then I can never be trustworthy, for I will be ready to do whatever it takes to get it. I am telling myself this, service should be my goal. What effect will my vision have on my immediate environment? Will it ever create any positive impact on the coming generation? Will I ever be able to solve any world problem? Money can't solve problem, it will only create the thirst to seek for more money anyhow, using any means. War is financially profitable but it does destroy humanity. Our hunger problem started when we started seeking for ways to make profit out of it, I won't blame GMO that much; they are only seeking for more profit. With the way I see drugs getting patented, I tend to forget that food is the real medicine. Service is a huge sacrifice, most times taking short cuts always cut things short. In this life that I will live just once, I will work har...

When all is LEFT, everything is right! Lefthandedness is one of nature's distribution which is still struggling to gain general acceptance in our world. Many people see it as a bad thing - sign of disrespect and evil, few overhype the phenomenon - viewing it as a good omen, while others are indifferent about it. It's during President Obama's tenure that Terrorist Osama Bin Laden was captured. These two great men were Lefthanders! The etymology of the word left is from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft," and it means weak or broken. Even, the word sinister is derived from the Latin word "sinestra, " and it initially meant “left.” We all know the meaning of sinister. Oh this is unfair to the Southpaws. Dexter means right, hence the word “dexterity” shows a right-handed bias referring to being right completely. Majority of the world religions see the phenomenon as a negative thing. In fact, the term "left-handed honeymoon" actually connotes ...