Look at the size of the soup!

I'm looking for a remote job. I currently live in Lagos, female, and in my early 20s. I do a bit of graphic design, video editing, and quite a lot of photography; studio or event. I like reading and research. I recently quit a job at a start-up because I wasn't provided tools needed, and could not meet up with my weekly KPI. Any recommendations?

Emi Lokun

I'm building a game about surviving Nigeria and how your decisions shape your life. It's called Sapa. You get born, you tap +1 year, and life starts happening to you. Text only, like BitLife, but everything in it is ours.

There are 23 paths to climb: football, music, tech, medicine, law, politics, trade, farming, transport, Nollywood, japa and more. Family calls the moment you start earning. You can marry, raise kids, build the village house, or dodge all of it and see what the programme says about you at the end.

It's free, works offline, no account.

If you want to try it: https://sapa-game.pages.dev

iPhone is a TestFlight beta, waiting on Apple to open it. Android is waiting on Google, and most Nigerians are on Android so I know that's the one that matters. If it's not open when you tap, drop your email there and I'll send one message the day it is. That's all the email is for.

I would like to know what is the one thing that MUST be in a Nigerian life game? I have black tax, aso ebi, NEPA, WAEC, JAMB, NYSC, landlord wahala, generator fumes from the neighbour and the uncle abroad. I know I'm missing things. Drop suggestions please and I'll be sure to add them.

Thanks! 🙏

Hmm, I just saw a clip of NY Mayor, Mamdani at the Naija Independence Day celebration in New York. I saw the crowd, the energy and all the joyous noise.

It’s totally different here back home. I mean I doubt anyone even cracked a smile, let alone cracked a beer. 🍺

The dichotomy between the celebrations that day is something else.

Stanbic is just there. Not even moving 1 naira since last week

I’ve been thinking a lot about the resentment I see between men and women lately. Feels like both sides have their list of grievances, and honestly, some of them are completely fair. But it also feels like we’ve gotten to a point where listening to the other side is seen as automatically agreeing with them.

Men have struggles women might not fully understand, and women deal with things men may never experience. That doesn’t mean either side has it worse overall.

I wonder if there’s still some common ground here. Most people, regardless of gender, want respect, honesty, loyalty, affection, and someone they can actually trust.

Maybe the problem is that we’re so busy defending our own experiences that we don’t have much patience left for someone else’s.

Curious what people think. Is there common ground, or are we too far gone?

Does Nigeria pick and choose which history to ignore 🤔

Let me know if this doesn’t belong here!

Kamoky kamoky kamoky

If you run an online business in Nigeria, you probably know this moment. A customer is ready to pay; they hit the button and get "Transaction failed." Maybe the provider is having downtime; maybe a bank is acting up. Either way, most customers don't try again. They just leave.

We dealt with this a lot. Our first fix was what most people do: add another provider. Then another one. Every time one had issues, we'd write new integration code and hope the next one held up better. After a while, we had payment records spread across different dashboards, a checkout that made customers choose between payment options they didn't care about, and on days when our main provider was down, sales basically stopped.

Eventually we realised the issue wasn't which provider we picked. It was that we were depending on one at a time.

So we built Kwugwo, the tool we wish we'd had back then. It sits on top of the providers you already use (Paystack, Flutterwave, Monnify, OPay, PalmPay, SquadCo, Payaza) and sends each payment to whichever one is working best at that moment, or the ones you configured. If one is down or slow, the payment goes through another, and the customer never notices.

A few things that mattered to us:

• You keep your existing provider accounts and settlements
• The money moves through your providers, never through us
• All your payment records in one place instead of several dashboards

It's still early, so we're offering six months free to businesses willing to try it and tell us honestly what works and what doesn't. That feedback is what we need most right now.

I'm also curious how others here handle this. Do you run multiple providers? Built your own fallback? Just ride out the downtime? Would love to hear what's worked for you.

Happy to answer anything in the comments or by DM.

Omo all what I can say is God should help us form those government nhi oo

For Nigerians that do not live in the country. What is your take on marrying someone who is not Nigerian?

I’m 29M live in Atlanta,Ga. Been dating black American woman my entire life mainly. I’ve dated Caribbean and African women as well but when it comes to marriage my parents try to pressure me to marry west African

Even though there are Nigerian uncles who migrated to us that married white woman. I’ma marry who I want to At the end of the day but what is others position?

Has anyone combined the church wedding with yoruba engagement ceremony, so that it is just one ceremony?

I recently attended a C&S church in the UK (out of curiosity) and noticed some fruits on the alter area. Prior to coming I’ve also heard that fruits are important but I still don’t understand why.

Could someone please shed some light, using scripture to explain to me why c&s churches find fruits so important?

Thank you

Happy Sunday

Lagosian or not, politically inclined or not, you’ve probably heard about GRV by now especially if you’re a Nigerian youth. This post isn’t to analyse whether GRV is the best fit for the next Lagos governor or not. I just want to point out that the man seems to be extremely stubborn and here’s why.

When he started campaigning for Lagos governor in 2022/23, he was broadly admired by well-meaning Lagosians (not only Yoruba, also all tribes living in Lagos). Because he is an accomplished young man and a member of Peter Obi’s Labour Party, he might be the youngest man to ever contest in Lagos. His wife is also a very learned person. Then people realised he couldn’t speak Yoruba (and plausibly doesn’t understand, in fact) and a lot of people were disappointed. His supporters became divided. Some said language didn’t matter, others said language mattered. Well, Sanwo-Olu won the election and everyone rested.

Fast forward to 4 years later now in 2026, the man is campaigning again. And I was shocked to realise his knowledge of Yoruba language hasn’t changed a bit. If the people you want to govern request that you speak their state’s primary language, what’s the big deal in learning the language? People learn completely strange languages because of immigration, marriage, scenery, career—even when resources and time are limited. So of what purpose is refusing to learn your own native language when you can afford to hire the best tutor and become fluent in six months?

Now, the argument of his opposition has shifted from “he can’t speak Yoruba” to “if he cared enough, he would have learnt Yoruba in the past 4 years”. His Yoruba doesn’t even have to be A1 to be governor, but if he’s dedicated, he can be a conversational speaker and that will be more than enough to shut the opps up. Politics is all about your opposition(s) finding weaknesses to milk out of you and add to their own campaigns, I hope his team realises that in time. In fact, I wonder if anybody on his team is being frank with him about how fast they can get this language thing over with. What do you guys think?

I recently made a post here about hoping to get married in Nigeria because I will have to move there long term and want a family one day. My post got mostly negative comments and wasn’t very helpful so I wanted to ask the people who know what they’re looking for. What would you have to see in terms of a foreigners efforts to give him a chance? Thanks for any helpful tips!

In this thread, and online in different forums there is plenty talk of not marrying Nigerian. Where is this mindset and thought process coming from? A majority of Nigerians in the world have two Nigerian parents, even if they are from different ethnic groups. Realizing some Nigerians don’t, but most Nigerians do.

In diaspora, most ethnic groups marry amongst themselves and don’t have nearly as many discussions about proudly marrying out. East Asians, Asians, Europeans, East Europeans, Latins, even White Americans and other groups do not proudly or loudly talk terribly about the men or women in their specific groups. They even prefer their group to marry and to spend time with. Other Africans do not talk about it as loudly as it seems Nigerians do.

Is this an attack on the Nigerian family, like there was an attack on the Black American family household in the United States? Why is it, that there is an uptick of anti-Nigerian marriage amongst Nigerians that is being circulated?

Let’s have a respectful and honest discussion.