The Lagos Boy's coastal highway, By Festus Adedayo
Nigeria, April 14 -- Whether real or imagined, none of the metonyms for "Lagos boy" is complimentary. The "Lagos boy" moniker once came up in the late 1980s. Commodore Olabode George, then military governor of Ondo State, had just been removed from office after spending two years. The African Concord magazine then did a post-mortem of his turbulent rule. Newly purchased boats for the coastal part of the state were alleged to be second-hand. By then, for analysts writing about the George years, rigor-mortis hadn't set on another uproarious component of his time in office. It was his wife, Feyi George's "Queendom." So, she came up for examination, too. Her Excellency was quarrelsome and garrulous, something that was strange to people in tha...
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