A MALL LIKE NO OTHER
Lanre, Ikenna, and Bashir are eternal friends whose friendship started in one of Nigeria’s foremost Architecture Schools several decades ago. All three of them are Lagosian and could confidently stake a claim to be from Lagos, a bustling State in South-Western Nigeria and her economic capital. Recently, though, the jamboree surrounding the Presidential Elections reminded them all, that their ancestral homes were far away from EKO (Lagos) and that Lagos was indeed their ‘second home’. Thus the city they've always known and called ‘home’ became their ‘second home,’ thanks to partisan politics. This rude fact seems to have been reluctantly accepted and respected as the Lagos ‘descendants’ have no such places as ‘ancestral homes’ except Lagos. The friendship shared amongst these Architects, who are now in their early 40s, is quintessentially Nigerian, as they are from the major regions of the Country, and is in conformity with the intents of the founding fathers of Nigeria who designed policies to ensure, enabling environments for every Nigerian to thrive within her shores and in any of her 36 States despite having their 'ancestral homes' elsewhere.
