“Mobile Life Lagos Nigeria”

Everything that doesn’t work in Lagos – and that is a lot – is made operative by the people themselves. The shopkeepers and craftsmen are mobile: if you want to buy bread, have your trousers repaired or need a haircut, you just walk outside and the vendors and craftsmen circle around you.As the electricity works only ten or twenty per cent of the time and brown water pours from the taps, the electricity and the water supply are made mobile too. If you want to work on one of your blogs, you go out into the street to find a cart with jerry cans filled with diesel. You start your generator, get your computer running and off you go. If you want to wash yourself, get the boy with water from the streets to fill up the container in your house. Take a bucket of water from the container to your bathroom and indulge yourself in throwing the fresh water with a saucepan over your body. 

Lagos -  A bread seller on the bike (Okada) without an helmet, though has the box of bread on his head as his helmet. If caught will usually claim some hidden forces…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Lagos -  Bread hawker in Lagos.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

You do not have to starve in the traffic jam.…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

One of the Hausa new comers at Obalende – Lagos filling jerrycans with water from a private owned borehole to supply around Lagos. Though, Lagos is surrounded by oceans, seas…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Smoked fish seller in Obalende , Lagos , Nigeria …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

A man carries his sewing machine on his shoulder moving from street to street calling out to residents who have garment to mend.…
Godswill Ayemoba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Since the introduction of GSM in Nigeria almost everyone has several mobile phones, one for each of their four or five businesses. As they cannot be physically present at all…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Bread hawkers in Lagos used to go around with butter or margarine; some people who buy the bread would like to have it cut in half with butter richly spread…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

A woman sell banana in a mechanic/spare parts dealers settlement area in Abuja…
Godswill Ayemoba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

One of the many diesel retailers in streets of Lagos. Like many other cities in Nigeria, Lagos suffers from acute shortage of electricity power. As such many organization and…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

A vivid street economy in the traffic jam…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

On the streets you often see people gesticulating while on their mobile phones. GSM – Global System for Mobile communications also known as ‘General Street Madness’…
Israel Ophori – Lagos Lab

There are taps in some of the houses but the water that comes out is dark brown.  â€˜In need of water? Find the boy who bought it from people…
Israel Ophori – Lagos Lab

The street salesman in this shot is trying hard to convince the man in the vehicle why he needs to buy a shoe rack from him. Check out his shoes…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

One of the many diesel retailers in streets of Lagos. Like many other cities in Nigeria, Lagos suffers from acute shortage of electricity power. As such many organization and homes…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

FRAN (Free Readers Association of Nigeria) These ‘members’ gather around the newspaper and magazine stands they can find. Sometimes just to catch a glimpse of the news making the headline…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab

A young girl sells bottled groundnut at a gathering of people celebrating.…
Godswill Ayemoba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

In a society (Nigeria) where dependency of energy is vested on the government. Fortunately or unfortunately this leader have failed in creating this energy dependency making million of Nigerian to…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

Call the welder, call the plumber, call the carpenter, call the electrician etc. Other craftsmen advertise in the same way. Sometimes they make a small installation to show off their…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

This young man runs a phone battery recharging service. There is the saying ‘every disappointment can be a blessing’. This certainly applies to the battery recharging services dotted across the…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Unauthorised mobile pharmacy. It is cheaper and less restricted. The articles range from vitamins and painkillers to viagra and condoms. The seller carries the basket on his or her head…
Andrew Esiebo – Lagos Lab

GSM – Global System for Mobile communications also known as ‘General Street Madness’ in Nigeria. The image shows some people engrossed in their mobiles.…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Nearly every Nigerian man supports at least one international club and hardly any of them support Nigerian teams. Every now and then they argue about whose club is better. Wearing…
Toye Gbade – Lagos Lab