Lagos City Photo Blog

I was in Cape Town, South Africa last week where I photographed the world famous Table Mountain from the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. It...

Lagos held a carnival on Easter Monday as part of activities to mark the Black Heritage Festival. It is part of a bid at turning the metropo...

Togolese went to the polls yesterday to vote for a president. Leading candidates include Faure Gnassingbe, incumbent and Jean Pierre Fabre o...

There are no restraints during this photo shoot with Demilola , a colleague I had featured on this blog once before.

Civil society groups marched out to protest the continued absence of the Nigerian president a couple of weeks ago in Lagos. This week, the o...

Kids thrilling themselves to a game of neigbourhood football. Match ups like this are called "set" as you have another set of play...

These old rims are used as bells by security guards in the estate where my parents live. Usually at night, the security guards hit on them t...

Breaking the silence I bring to you Ghana's pioneer art seller Frances Ademola . The 81 year-old lady has been running The Loom, Ghana...

Inside the Galleria is Barcelos, a Portuguese-themed South African restaurant/snack bar that specialises in flame grilled chicken. Shot this...

This is the Silverbird Galleria's atrium. Most weekends there's a beehive of activity inside. People generally come to see recent Ho...

The Silverbird Galleria has been putting up a show for MJ since his passing with this image of the legend beamed by I-know-not-what-kind-of-...

Nigeria's most celebrated young writer Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie was in town last Saturday to read from her new book of short stories ti...

My final image from Akure is this beautiful wave goobye from a lady I shared a taxi ride with.

Attendants at a gas service station. It was a Sunday afternoon so they had run out of petroleum was why they could afford to relax on duty.

Another of the moments that was fun for me in Akure was when this guy juggled the soccer ball in the marketplace and I just clicked away.

It is the little things that take your breath away. This lady spreads her newly done fingernails for me to photograph at the Oja Oba in Akur...

Still in Akure, this guy decides to give me the most interesting pose I've ever photographed. That's why I enjoyed taking photos in ...

In the market place in Akure I found these two men who pawn gold ornaments. They also deal in black market foreign exchange transactions.

I was in Akure , Ondo state where I grew up, recently and had the opportunity of experiencing the vibe of the market place. Oja Oba, the ki...

Picture taken from the inside looking out on Billingsway Road, Ikeja.