boys | Zikoko!

I remember a time where needs were simple. All I did was play with friends, watch cartoons, eat, and pray for my parents to buy me presents. For boys growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, here is a list of toys that made our day:

1) Water gun.

Police and thief was lit as hell.

2) Toy cars.

The ultimate childhood dream.

3) Health and felele balls.

Oh simple things, where have you gone?

4) Plastic figures.

Who remembers buying them inside chin-chin?

5) More guns.

With these guns, I felt invisible.

6) Yoyo.

For all the OG’s out there.

7) Brick games.

What a time to be alive!

8) SEGA mega drive.

He shoots! He shoots! – blocked shot.

9) Game boy color.

Pokemon hear am that year.

10) “Christmas” shoes.

The ultimate sign that you had arrived. You’d march extra hard on assembly ground so everyone could notice your shoes.

11) Lego.

What did we not try to build with this thing?

12) Calculator watch.

I miss the simplicity of childhood.

Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments section!

Hassan Yahaya

August 20, 2020

Inside Life, Man Dem

90s, boys, Nostalgia, Throwback
If this sounds like you, welcome on this journey.

1) You are scarily good at rough play.

All the years of wrestling with your brothers has developed an appetite for violent activities disguised as play.

2) Competition is your middle name.

Your brothers must never win anything because you won’t hear the end of it. However, it has now spread to your life as everything is a competition for you.

3) There was never anyone to practice braiding with.

You had to learn many things alone because no one to share your struggles with.

4) Your friends had a crush on your brothers.

Iyama.

5) You’ve had crushes on your brother’s friends.

Especially the older ones.

6) They never allowed you to touch the play station.

Except in very rare cases did they allow you play with them.

7) Sadly, you now have a high iyama meter.

Growing up with boys means that you now have a higher tolerance for things many people consider as disgusting.

8) Your speciality is stealing your brother’s clothes.

Especially if they are older because they just fit so snugly.

9) Your brothers never get tired of embarrassing you.

The see finish is just too much.

10) They can be overprotective.

At the end of the day, you try to understand that it’s all love from them to you. You wouldn’t trade them for an American visa.

Hassan Yahaya

July 20, 2020

Inside Life

boys, Brothers, Men, Siblings
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “this modelling will fit me o,” then this is for you. But before you rush into it, let me prepare you for the different types of people you’ll meet in the industry once you’re ready. Pay attention.

Beware of the ones who stand in front of everyone by force

Heyyy designer, i’m the one you want
For they usually don’t get picked.

“Oh no it’s fine, seriously I’m not angry, it’s fine”
There are also the proud one’s who have a history of constantly getting picked

“Okay congratulations but do you have to rub it in our faces? HA!”
Meanwhile we have the one’s who happen to be there by mistake but somehow got picked

Who me? Excuse me sister, what’s happening here?
Congratulations to everyone who’d be walking the show

if you were not picked, please kindly exit the building, see you next year.
Today is the day! Models..

Are you readyyy?!?
This is where we know who the real models are.

I mean the one’s who were truly born for this. The category most people believe they fall into.
Those who bragged about their walk all week and got to the runway to surprise everyone.

“See when I walk, everywhere will scatter” But it really was catastrophic!
There’s also those ones who won’t let anything get in their way

This girl thinks she can stop my shine, God forbid bad thing
These ones literally put the run in runway.

No one is chasing you aunty, slow down
Those who give up as soon as they get backstage

“I can’t do this anymore, please tell my fans i’d miss them”
You know those people who start to narrate and exaggerate how people were staring at them?

Even if it wasn’t that bad? yeah we have those too
And finally, the designer’s pets who feel the need to form a clique backstage

While everyone hates on them
And next year, we do it all over again

I’m sure by now you’re more than convinced modelling is for you, so go for it!!!

Eniola

June 1, 2018

General

boys, Girls, model, runway
1. “Men are not to be trusted”

He told you to marry him and the next week you got his wedding invite abi? We’ve all seen that one.
2. “Boys are stinky”

You think you smell perfume but all all you smell is lies.
3. “If a boy touches you, you’ll get pregnant”

All I wanted was a back rub & now I'm pregnant pic.twitter.com/EvH6D78bCZ
— Riah 🦋 (@babymamari) March 25, 2017

No words needed.
4. “Boys don’t have sense”

They think you don’t have all their side chicks on speed dial.
5. “If you die on top of a boy, he’ll bring a girl to your funeral”

You thought your mum was saying rubbish, now can you see for yourself?
6. “Boys are selfish”

No? Explain to me why one man needs 5 girls again?

Shola

March 28, 2017

Oldies

boys, Nigerian Men, Nigerian mums, Nigerian parents, Yoruba boys, Yoruba demons
1. When you have hearts to break with your agbada at 12:00 PM, and Ibrahim Tailor still isn’t picking your calls at 10:30

2. If you’ve ever referred to yourself as a ‘Yoruba demon’, just take your Lagos boy title and be going

3. When you’ve finally made it to the owambe and you can’t find your squad to do a grand entrance with

4. Expect this kind of behaviour from a Lagos boy when they finally get the red-bottoms they’ve been saving for:

5. When you notice your Arabian oud has finished and you have 4 major clubs to grace with an appearance that Friday night:

6. When you’re out with the love of your life, but your girlfriend keeps calling, is this your reaction?

7. How you pretend to be blind when Tola that you engaged 8 months ago is coming to ask why shes’s seeing pictures from your wedding on Facebook

Boyin Plumptre

February 18, 2017

Oldies

boys, Lagos
1. You, when you see fine boys

What’s up boy?
2. As you’re looking at the fine boy, another one passes by and you’re like

See fine fish!
3. You, talking to a fine stranger like you’ve known him since forever

Because that’s how you roll.
4. How you sprinkle ‘my dear’ and ‘sweetheart’ into every conversation you have

Everybody is a ‘dear’.
5. When you enter an office full of men, you’re like

You’re a fisherwoman in a sea filled with fishes.
6. When you buy a new see through top and you know how eyes will feast on you

Game about to be lit!
7. When people accuse you of being a flirt, you’re like

Don’t loud it, abeg.
8. When a guy looks ashy AF, but you still throw in a compliment because flirt

If you don’t do it, who will?
9. How your smile game is always 100% anytime you see boys

Come rain or harmattan, your own is just to be smiling upandan.

Shola

February 17, 2017

Oldies

boys, flirt, Funny, Girls, Like, love, relationships
1. When you’re calculating how much you’ll have to spend on new weave, and you think of how much boys spend on ‘Gallas’

2. When you’re just sitting down jeje and you feel that evil pain on your side and you know your period is coming for you

3. When one yeye Tola has refused to give you ring, and you know how you’d have snatched yourself up if you were a boy

4. When you’re running up the stairs and your breasts think they can sabotage you with their weight

5. Who else knows the struggle of wanting to pee when you’re stuck in traffic with no where to go?

6. When you have to call structural engineer to help you design what you’ll sew with your aso-ebi and you remember ordinary kaftan and sokoto, and boys are set to go

Boyin Plumptre

January 29, 2017

Oldies

boys, Girls, wish