NIGHT LIFE IN UNILAG
Funny how a
simple thing as just a song from a radio can inspire an article. Loool!
Anyways, Lagosians basically live for the the night but that’s even
over stretching the scope of this article. How about we make it a little
more personal…. something we can relate with. Does a typical unilag
student live for the night? The answer can be yes or a no. If we draw a
venn diagram and call the universal set ‘Unilag night life’, then there
would exist in it two subsets….hehe! I just totally lost some people
there. The lost folks would be typical elements of one of these subsets
I’m going to talk about.
So as I was
saying, one subset would be the typical balling guys and lets represent
them by ‘A’. The other subset represents our nerd and we shall be
calling them ‘B’. Well, since the class room is just a sequel to what
they started in the library a night before and every other night,
there’s not so much to talk about. Then we have our very sharp guys.
These ones overlap on both spheres and we will call them the ‘C’ dudes-
a little there and a little here.
These being
said, let’s just enter into our major discussion for the day. You see
one subset where all the drama is. The ‘A’ dudes which we’ve
identified are the diversity dudes. To thoroughly operate in this sphere
you need something called money. The money factor is what has
subdivided this group into how they hangout with their female species at
night.
Below are the further sub division that exist:
- The rich dudes
- The okay boys
- The hangout boys
- The Rich dude
Things are supposedly easy for this guy. Hangout nights are more
spontaneous and just like rhythm unplugged, anything can happen! They
come around in cars bearing gifts- most times, consumables. They say it
makes conversation easier. Well, I don’t know. Things kick off in their
cars with the lights off. Regardless where he parks, it is always dark
in the car at night. You see, gists are that this guy sucks at
conversing with babes. At least that’s the perception of…. “Well, she
can’t really think I drove all the way here just to talk. So we can as
well not beat round the bush” he says. So it goes two ways; things gets
a little too awkward with his ‘guest’ and the girl storms out making
the visit very short. In the case the girl hasn’t finished munching her
gift, she would still be carrying it while leaving the car. So people
can’t really figure out what happened. “He just came to visit and give
me dinner”, she tells her friend.
- The Okay boys
So many guys exist in this sphere mehn. The bad thing is that girls
rarely feel a thing for guys like this and yeah, I have a theory to
support this statement. You see, these kind of guys usually delude
themselves by believing that have what it takes to handle the girls that
roll with the rich dudes, so their conversations never really pass the
telephone. In their attempt to impress, they even buy home delivery food
for girls since they don’t have their personal cars.
- The hangout Boys
This is where all the gist is. You see, these boys would have been
perfect with a little bit of substance (money). Let me first highlight
all the qualities of these boys:
1. Smooth talker
2. Adequately polite
3. Knows hangouts spots and corners in school
4. Live for the night
The smooth talkers
This is just a
case of- if you don’t have one, you sure must compensate it with
something slightly adequate at least. A friend once told me about how he
‘gisted’ a friend all the way from ozone down to school. Apparently, it
was all part of the plot. Shockingly, the girl said talking while
walking down to school was her best part of the night. The guy however,
told me it was just a solution to not having enough money for cab-
thanks to ozone that chose not to include free pop corn and drink in the
ticket fee that faithful Monday.
Adequately polite
For the rich
dudes, being polite ends at opening the car door for that girl to enter-
which never happens. So no rich dude is polite based on my
conclusion. The hangout guys personally take it upon themselves to be
girls’ school daddy and yeah I mean it literally, school daddy! The
scenario of a boyfriend in arts helping his engineering girl do her
assignment is totally not impossible for these boys. They are so good at
adjusting, at least temporarily if need be.
They know all
the hangout spots and corners in school. Opportunities are rare and
golden for them unlike the very much spontaneous rich dudes where
anything can happen in their car. For these ones, the whole investment
of smooth talking and doing assignments finally pay off and you think
they would slack by not knowing the appropriate place to milk their
cows. Nothing like bad market and enough of these corners ‘yapa’ on
campus. I’m tempted to start listing them but let’s leave the gist for
another day. Let me not start busting bubbles. Hehe!
“I wan go
parol” “mehn, this last 5h na for this night o” is a common statement
sodehinde boys are very familiar with. They are like our typical igbo
boys who hustle only to go and spend it in the villages. They starve to
have enough for that chicken and chips at night, if you know what I
mean…..loooool
Just my own biased perspective, but wait sef……am I even right????????????
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"Umbrella," 2007). By the time of her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad
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Rihanna indeed inked on the spot. Come summer 2005, Def Jam rolled out
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Sun even had been released. The album spawned one other hit, "If It's
Lovin' That You Want," which broke the Top 40. Rihanna's follow-up
album, A Girl Like Me, was a greater success, spawning three big hits: a
chart-topper ("S.O.S.") and two Top Tens ("Unfaithful," "Break It
Off"). Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), continued her
success and, more notably, signaled a change of direction. Whereas her
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single, "Umbrella," shot to number one and, for the third year in a row,
was a potential "song of the summer." By this point it was clear that
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Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
