₦airaland Forum

Viable24:
Come to Nkom, where life dey expensive for non natives

Come to Nkom, where life dey expensive for non natives

Where is Nkom?

Proudly Surulerean.... Only those that grew up there know the value of what's the sport city offers

Owaincouncil:
Is there any BnB (shortlet) apartment there. And whats the cost. Anyone with idea should please private chat me

Search on jiji and geoserch to Surulere, you should be able to see various options

Says who? Surulere has been standing Gidigba long before Wizkid was born self.

XtraFortunes:
I love the song by Wizkid called Surulere

Brought Surulere to world limelight

Racoon:
OP seems to be right. Surulere is all he just described. Akinsilere - Aguda where my aunt lives is all he just described.

You for tell me which number so incase you messup for here, i go go find that your aunty for her house.

Surulere cover Aguda, Lawason, adeniran ogusanya, Shitta, some part of mushin, some part of Itire, bode thomas, Iponri, which part am I missing

epainos:
I can even read people are making comments that Aguda is Surulere. Lol. Very funny. So, all the adjacent areas are surulere. Lol. No be my area? Even, you will say Ijeshatedo is surulere. Funny people. A very wrong way to describe Surulere. This OP doesn't live there. I am sure he lives in adjacent areas, or have friends there. Just imagine how he described Surulere. Even said Surulere people are BRT takers. This was where I knew he doesn't belong to Surulere. Even Ojuelegba .....any potholes there? Or this guy smokes something else?

Please learn to correct without outright condemnation. Yes, Some parts of Aguda and Ijeshatedo, cum Itire are parts of Surulere. You can take that to the Bank.

The op omitted the drug addiction in Surulere. You fit dey front of your gate aboki go Hawk those hard drug pass your front, also op mixed up the brt part, Surulere residents use uber to move around alot ever since Okada was banned in the whole of Surulere

I was born and raised in surulere. I stayed in ijesha road, moved to Airways and then Sanya. I too love that area. I attended Esteem college, Febilak and The source nur school. I promise my self to buy a house in Surulere very soon. Amen.

I go like visit Lagos again and just experience suru night life once more. No dull moment

syntekelite:
No 0 - never underestimate anyone based on their looks especially the aje butter's almost everyone is packing.

Packing as how? Kindly clarify.

epainos:
I can even read people are making comments that Aguda is Surulere. Lol. Very funny. So, all the adjacent areas are surulere. Lol. No be my area? Even, you will say Ijeshatedo is surulere. Funny people. A very wrong way to describe Surulere. This OP doesn't live there. I am sure he lives in adjacent areas, or have friends there. Just imagine how he described Surulere. Even said Surulere people are BRT takers. This was where I knew he doesn't belong to Surulere. Even Ojuelegba .....any potholes there? Or this guy smokes something else?

So Aguda is under which LGA? You can't limit Surulere to only the porchest streets like Bode Thomas and Adeniran ogunsaya or Ogunlana drive na.

Iponri, Aguda, Ijesha, Lawanson are all part of Surulere. If you truly grew up in Lere, you'd know this.

aswani:
All of this can be said about most areas in Lagos. I read this and you can easily repeat the same about my area too.

It's a lie, on the island there are like 4 shoprites..... From sangotedo to osapa London to lekki axis.... People don't play ball that frequently except in designated fields in housing estate...
Restaurants are diverse here also

Forgot to add it's the original HQ of Ashi joints.
Kudos should also go to Fela,he made Surulere a very popular axis

Mrchippychappy:
Ojuelegba, Suru was Don Jazzy and the other rapper abi singer

I just checked YouTube. You are right it is don jazzy and Dr sid thanks for the correction

you didn't add beggars/pick pockets in every street junction

Racoon:
OP seems to be right. Surulere is all he just described. Akinsilere - Aguda where my aunt lives is all he just described.

It’s akinsulire street, I attended Aguda grammar school
Jss1 to ss3

ceejay80s:
I represent surulere..

Born and a citizen of surulere ojuelegba 1978,
One of the best areas to live in Lagos,
I remember the late 80s and early 90s masquerade on festive periods at cole street,
Life sweet those days

You dey get steady light? Make we ask before we come,and how security for that area

datola:
Food is very very cheap in Surulere and everywhere. They still serve amala at N200 and meat at N200. N1,000 is enough to eat bellefull at Amoke Alamala and many other food joints.

Night life is cool with most joints operating 24 hours.

Road network to Island and other parts of Lagos is a plus.

Food has always been cheap in Surulere, right from the stone age. The areas with the cheapest food in Lagos is Surulere, Mushin, Ilasamaja, Lawanson and parts of Ijesha. At Ayilara, we used to buy rice, beans and dodo from 12 midnight until 5 am from one Benin woman. Very hot fresh and delicious. Na just waka and buy there. The same for Ojuelegba. That Ojuelegba would always remind us of Fela’s song. Everywhere traffic, enjoyment and people. Na 24 hours waka for Ojuelegba everyday. What about masquerades during Christmas. Calabar people dey give us masquerades then. Chai!

You can buy your fish for cheap rates at Lawanson bus stop and Ojuelegba road. If you never lived in Surulere, you missed a lot. I grew in Salawu street, that’s close to Randle General hospital. It was actually a health center before it was upgraded. It was a beautiful experience, going from there to school then at municipal bus stop. Ikate then was too sweet also where we attended school. Very quiet neighborhood with bad roads then. There were no okadas and you’d walk for long after playing football and getting very dirty. Ah. Lagos sweet before until dem carry politics scatter everywhere. Na so be Ilasamaja. Amala everywhere very cheap. Also the regular akara, yam, dodo with fried shining nose fish. Na so we see am until Lagos Island carry us waka!

Paramount01:
You dey get steady light? Make we ask before we come,and how security for that area

Moved out in 2013,
Na big man area now ,
Na festive masquerade wan carry u come?
All that ended mid 90s when eye dey open small small to yahoo and japa

eyesoflagos:
https://eyesoflagos.com/9-things-youll-only-understand-if-you-live-in-surulere/

I am not satisfied , with your about surulere description... If you are Born between the 1970 - 1999 .. you will understand....

Life starts from Surulere.., ever heard of the names like Shitta Motors , Barracks, Ojuelegba under bridge, bode thomos,,fire station bus stop..... Itire road...

You didn't even mention fast food like ewa goyin with white yam and stew... U didn't mention Ghana puff puff.. u didn't mention Akara beans ponding , fried yam and stew...

U didn't mention Loud junction....

Well, .. good luck

epainos:
I can even read people are making comments that Aguda is Surulere. Lol. Very funny. So, all the adjacent areas are surulere. Lol. No be my area? Even, you will say Ijeshatedo is surulere. Funny people. A very wrong way to describe Surulere. This OP doesn't live there. I am sure he lives in adjacent areas, or have friends there. Just imagine how he described Surulere. Even said Surulere people are BRT takers. This was where I knew he doesn't belong to Surulere. Even Ojuelegba .....any potholes there? Or this guy smokes something else?

U don't know surulere be that
Aguda is under surulere Masha kilo too,
I grew up in surulere, I dey trek back then from my house at ojuelegba to visit my classmate at aguda and bode Thomas,
Imagine we back then trkking from birch Freeman boys high school surulere in the 90s to bode Thomas,
Good old days

Perfect description. I really missed that hood, especially on weekends.

seborrhic:
Forgot to add it's the original HQ of Ashi joints.
Kudos should also go to Fela,he made Surulere a very popular axis

Sorry Fela did not make Ojuelegba popular, even though his song described the traffic and human confusion around Ojuelegba. That place was always there, with no bridge then. It was a popular place where buses from the North, South, East and West arrived. People knew where to pick up their friends and loved ones then. There were too many joints with cheap foods and Ashawo joints for bus drivers and everyone. There were night clubs and it was 24 hours busy. Marcopolo, and Lagos state transport buses stopped there. It was a dispersal center to other areas of Lagos, just like Yaba bus stop.

Fela’s Kalakuta republic was on Agege Motor road, as it was called, backing the Ojuelegba army barracks then until OBJ ordered soldiers to destroy the place. He actually started in Alagomeji, Yaba and then to Shitta in Surulere, with Afrobeats, before relocating to the finally destroyed Kalakuta republic. He moved from there to Pepple street, Ikeja where we have computer village today and to Gbemisola street, as his residence. His song promoted Ojuelegba, but it was a very popular place before then. Femi and his siblings lived in Ikate on Oduduwa street with their mum then.

The original headquarters of ashawo na Ajegunle and Amukoko. If you like to patronize you fit go there, no be Ojuelegba.

I hope you and others enjoyed this piece by me.

U didn't mention Rita Lori hotel .uuuuuuuuuuuuu need more research

Hmmmm, during my days at Unilag, I do go with my coursemate to her house at Bode Thomas.

Sometimes, I will spend a week or two with her during the holiday. Her mom is very nice (God bless her for me). We would go everywhere including Rita Lori to swim and that Chinese restaurant close to shop rite.

And I dated her brother until he travelled to Germany.
What a wonderful world!

ceejay80s:
U don't know surulere be that
Aguda is under surulere Masha kilo too,
I grew up in surulere, I dey trek back then from my house at ojuelegba to visit my classmate at aguda and bode Thomas,
Imagine we back then trkking from birch Freeman boys high school surulere in the 90s to bode Thomas,
Good old days

Sorry bro, Aguda was never recognized as Surulere. Aguda was a new found area. In those days, Surulere was termed the areas covering Ojuelegba, Cole street, Barracks on the right, up to the national stadium, Alaka, Bode Thomas, Eric Moore, Shitta Bey, Masha, Ikate and Lawanson, Ramoni, just before the Ijesha intersection, when coming from Mushin. You see that Ogunlana drive as you are moving towards Animasaun, it stopped at the end, where we had Census. The whole of that end to Brown road, etc were Aguda. Again the boundary between Aguda and Ijesha ends at that Canal. The total front where Rita Lori hotel was situated was called Aguda.The right drive into Aguda from there was not called Surulere but Aguda. Some people started writing their addresses as Aguda, Surulere, just to give the sense of belonging. Orile bus stop was newly developing. OBJ constructed that road to Badagry. Breweries was called Iganmu. When you enter that breweries road from Costain, you moved yo the end, cross the road and turn left facing the Iganmu bridge, were and all Iganmu. Sari Iganmu was an afterthought when Orile was as fast developing and they are wanted also to have Iganmu as a name. The same went for people who then lived on Kirikiri road, who claimed Apapa, instead of Ajegunle.

You can walk from Ramoni off Lawanson road to Kilo, connecting NEPA, Aguda and Ijesha in less than one hour, without knowing that you are simply rigmaroling. That’s the beauty of the area, with plenty of friends and family. I lived in Aguda and I lived just by the present day General hospital, Randle Avenue.

With these few historical facts, I hope I have been able to convince you and not confuse you that Aguda is not Surulere.

Olatara:
Hmmmm, during my days at Unilag, I do go with my coursemate to her house at Bode Thomas.

Sometimes, I will spend a week or two with her during the holiday. Her mom is very nice (God bless her for me). We would go everywhere including Rita Lori to swim and that Chinese restaurant close to shop rite.

And I dated her brother until he travelled to Germany.
What a wonderful world!

Na the brother you dey take do abracadabra follow your friend enter their house. Na him you carry for mind, no be the sister!

I catch you.

Crucialgem:
Surulere cover Aguda, Lawason, adeniran ogusanya, Shitta, some part of mushin, some part of Itire, bode thomas, Iponri, which part am I missing

No. Aguda is under Coker Aguda local government. Go and check. No make mistake.

cyberbro:
Packing as how? Kindly clarify.



So Aguda is under which LGA? You can't limit Surulere to only the porchest streets like Bode Thomas and Adeniran ogunsaya or Ogunlana drive na.

Iponri, Aguda, Ijesha, Lawanson are all part of Surulere. If you truly grew up in Lere, you'd know this.

Aguda is under Coker-Aguda local government. Go and check. Aguda na attachment dem dey.

ElevationD:
Sorry Fela did not make Ojuelegba popular, even though his song described the traffic and human confusion around Ojuelegba. That place was always there, with no bridge then. It was a popular place where buses from the North, South, East and West arrived. People knew where to pick up their friends and loved ones then. There were too many joints with cheap foods and Ashawo joints for bus drivers and everyone. There were night clubs and it was 24 hours busy. Marcopolo, and Lagos state transport buses stopped there. It was a dispersal center to other areas of Lagos, just like Yaba bus stop.

Fela’s Kalakuta republic was on Agege Motor road, as it was called, backing the Ojuelegba army barracks then until OBJ ordered soldiers to destroy the place. He actually started in Alagomeji, Yaba and then to Shitta in Surulere, with Afrobeats, before relocating to the finally destroyed Kalakuta republic. He moved from there to Pepple street, Ikeja where we have computer village today and to Gbemisola street, as his residence. His song promoted Ojuelegba, but it was a very popular place before then. Femi and his siblings lived in Ikate on Oduduwa street with their mum then.

The original headquarters of ashawo na Ajegunle and Amukoko. If you like to patronize you fit go there, no be Ojuelegba.

I hope you and others enjoyed this piece by me.

Ok.I doff my hat for your deep grasp of the history of the place.
Can't argue with this your level of knowledge of that axis.
Felt Empire was one of the axis that made Surulere popular during days of Fela

seborrhic:
Ok.I doff my hat for your deep grasp of the history of the place.
Can't argue with this your level of knowledge of that axis.
Felt Empire was one of the axis that made Surulere popular during days of Fela

Thank you my bro. I follow for Surulere pikin. Was, still and will always be beautiful. Everyone knew and still knows everyone.