Lagos is also very stressful and moving around is a great challenge. For one, more people were competing for the little space available in Lagos as against Offa. Okay, after all these, how has Lagos been?Ĭoming from a quiet sleepy town to the mad rush of daily life in Lagos, it was quite challenging. Now I practice law and also moderate art events for an education-based foundation. Like I said earlier, I had saved reasonably well during service, so I could afford to pay rent and live for about three months or so without hassles even though I hadn’t secured a job. And then a cousin spoke to a friend of his and that helped to get a job. I took a part time gig pending when I could find something permanent. Job hunting, though, that was a different ball game. And the fact that you have to be in a perpetual state of alternating between anger and calm was very distressing to say the least.Īnyway, I had planned and saved during my youth service so I could afford to rent a flat with two other friends. When I got here I was very shocked to find so many people cramped into little spaces. It was just the right career move everyone knows Lagos is the number one place for lawyers in Nigeria. ![]() I got homesick soon enough.Īfter law school in Kano and then NYSC, I decided to move to Lagos. But the buildings were too big the people too brash and the life too fast. And we went to see a movie at the Cultural Center: Alekuwodo by Kunle Afod. The city was not particularly tidy, at least the part I visited. The number of vehicles and people on the streets, they were so many. It was small.Īround my 10th birthday, I think, I visited Ibadan. I could not do anything good, bad, great or wild without bumping into someone who knew my people. Everybody knew everybody, sort of a communal-type of living. I grew up in Offa and it was exciting but quiet. Samsudeen, a 29 year old lawyer who moved from Offa in Kwara State to Lagos, shares his story so far. It’s something a lot of our parents did, something a lot of us are now doing. ![]() Here’s Big City Living, a ten-part series where people who lived their childhood in small rustic towns share their experience of moving to big cities in adulthood.
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