I think a little number of my followers already know that I'm a Lagos girl. In a few times, I have made articles about Lagos in one way or the other. Lagos is everything you want it to be or let me say everything you can imagine it to be. Lagos is beautiful and ugly, rough and smooth, silent and noisy and every other thing that you can imagine it is. Well, not everyone in Lagos is a criminal but we've got so many criminals here and that's why you gotta be careful and smart at the same time.
If you have ever heard anything about Lagos, you'd realize that Lagos is only for smart and wise people. You can never see a dull Lagosian. By the time you experience one or two criminal activities in Lagos, you will know how to live life here. The rate of criminal activities here is what made a lot of people to become very smart. Imagine pressing your phone in a public bus, someone snatches the phone from outside and the runaway. You won't even see the face of the person who snatched your phone. That's why we have angry birds in Lagos. You'd see people walking fast as if they are being pursued by something...hahaha. it us not their fault, it is the Lagos spirit.
Now, there are different kinds of crime in different areas in Lagos. There are some places that the best thing they know how to do is snatch phones, others may be battling with the issue of cultism. I've lived in five places in Lagos ever since I was born. Also, I was born in one of the craziest ghettos in Lagos. One of the most popular one. Presently, I stay on the island. I live in Victoria Garden City and I have to tell the truth about what is going on there.
Luckily for us, no one comes inside VGC without and invite code. The code stands as a proof that you have been invited into the estate. Walking around the estate, you may how safe and fantastic it is. Here on the island, there are people with legit jobs and aside from those, what most girls engage in is prostitution and we have so many guys who are fraudsters and ritualist. These are the two basic jobs done here on the island and that's why you find it hard to see a girl who's not a prostitute here.
We all know that those things are criminal activities and another thing that do is use girls for ritual. That's why you see so many girls on the streets of Lekki walking naked or must have ran mad. Well, a lot of people may not know about this or may think I'm being superstitious but so many Nigerians know this. The ritualists may even keep some of these girls in their secret room for years after they have bedn used for ritual and that's why we hear that so many girls have been kidnapped and we are in search of them. That's the same as VGC and its environment (Lekki, Ajah, Ikate, Victoria Island and others).
At the same time, there have been issues of robbery lately. We are having too much robbery report even than before especially in bigger estates like mine so we have to be very careful and be conscious of our surroundings and even our security.
Is it safe to go out at night? Well, I wouldn't say it is safe or not. At least, 60% of the people here are night crawlers. I know it is more than that. We have so many clubs around here and other places to entertain ourselves and they mostly open at night and that's why you see cars running up and down at night. Nightlife here is normal and it is just like afternoon life in other places. It may not be safe in the night or afternoon so kerp your heads up.