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Humans of Lagos "I'm here thinking about the hypocrisy of humans before you arrived. So let me share one with you. I have this friend who's feeling holier than the universe and always trying to be more Catholic than the pope. He's an homophobe, and preaches strongly against the rainbow community. He's got no love for homosexuality. One of his points of defense is the health issue. He claims that gays are at a higher risk of contracting diseases through anal sex. A forbidden practice that heterosexuals never engage. But guess what? Only yesterday in court, during his divorce proceedings, one of the excuses his wife gave for the divorce request was his incessant demands for anal sex. I was befuddled. So while he went about condemning gay sex that he thinks is majorly anal, he's doing the same. What is his deal? I mean, why bother so much about what people do sexually with consenting others? How are they harming you?" © FERT, 2018

Curiosity they say kills the cat. I am not a cat and I didn’t get killed, but I discovered something. All my life I have always seen people chew sticks in the name of cleaning their mouth and I wonder what is wrong with them, after all, there are brushes with different options of toothpastes. I concluded they are just some village people who won’t change with the trend of things. Then I saw a young lady who is also in the practice, and she said she chews ‘orin ata’ (pepper stick). "What’s pepperish about it." I asked. And she said, "it is pepperish."  So after a while of seeing the stick, I picked it up and chewed a little part of it without the bark. Nothing happened - then I picked a little more then with the bark, so, something happened.  It was as if my mouth was in pepper. I have not come across any toothpaste with that strong mint. This is it, we cannot develop using others people technology. I still wonder why we depend so much...

Humans of Lagos "I don't agree idea that a lady should not woo a guy. This are feelings that must be expressed. If rejected, the lady must realize also that she'd reject some guys too. We all face rejection at one point in our lives. The lady that I love and respected the most,  (even though married with kids) wooed me. We didn't last. She cried when she broke up with me. She felt like she used me and dumped me. And yes, she dumped me. I allowed for it. She moved on... I'm still stuck. I don't even really know how to love others now. I woo ladies, yet I can't love them right nor respect them enough. I think, many ladies would say: "I was a good girl, but the unfortunate guy changed my course. Now I'm bad!" Perhaps just like me, we were never good, we only got ignited to kindle the badness laying fallow in us. A guy will not treat a lady right cos he wooed her, and may not treat her bad cos she wooed him. I believe, I'll fi...

Humans of Lagos "She loved me with her all. I truly meant the world to her. We planned our future together, to be spent togetherness forever.  But, the day she knew about my irreligiosity, things changed. She felt unhappy. She tried to convince me, to change. I assured her that I would attend her church services whenever she invited me, and would never argue religion with her. She was worried about her unborn children. She wanted them to grow in the religious doctrine. Painfully, she called the relationship quit. Though I was only 22 then, but I'd longed to marry her. My dream was shattered. She married the son of her pastor a year later, while I discovered that there's more to life than marriage. I'm 45, and now a confirmed atheist. The president of the Atheist Society in my community is the son of a popular clergyman - the husband of the girl that used to love me. How, she grew up becoming a rebel I will not understand, but I know that one can't cage huma...

Humans of Lagos "She said, 'even if I want to resist you, you're so good at kissing that I can't but want to have some more.' I took that as her consent, I pressed on, exploring her body. But months after, I still can't shake the regrets I feel about my action. She took me as a counsellor, someone she could trust and lean on for support. Her visitation ruin everything. In my head, I received a guest that I've always longed to kiss. Upon her visit, my hots for her got to head and I was determined to show her some sensual skill. "Can I kiss you?" I asked gently. She coyly muttered no. Perhaps, I read the situation wrong. I thought she wanted me but shy to voice it. We talked on, and on, until I remembered what a friend once told me. Then, I grabbed her urgently and planted eager kiss on her luscious lips. She responded pronto! So my friend was right, I surmised, you need to take some girls by surprise for you to have them. She enjoy t...

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...