Welcome to Nigeria’s Face Me, I Face You, or, as it is hilariously known in Nigeria, “Face Me, I Slap You!”
“You have dramas, you have excitement, you have heart aches, you have disappointments – in Nigeria’s Face Me, I Face You rooms,” explains Ebenezer, our BattaBox editor.
Nigeria’s notorious “Face Me, I Face You” is slang for cheap rooms in housing estates, commonly a series of rooms facing each other joined by one corridor, toilet, bathroom, and kitchen.
In today’s video, BattaBox continues our “Stories” series to give you the highs and lows of life in shared, cheap accommodation in Lagos.
“When you wake up at 4.30am, maybe there is no water ion your area, so you go and fetch water, and then you must queue for bathroom,” laughs Warri Pekin, our BattaBox presenter. “Queue dey for toilet, queue dey for bedroom!”
“When I was in Face Me, I Face You, there was no such thing as being a fine girl,” explains Folly. “I had to show myself, and show the hustle, enter toilet, and do everything sharp sharp, no wasting of time.”
“You get the dirtiest people, the nosiest people invading your privacy,” explains Folly, our BattaBox presenter. “They will borrow all the things you have in the house!”
But despite all the problems, there are also many opportunities to living in Face Me, I Face You – you can borrow matches or gas for cooking if you have run out, it’s easy to make friends, they are also cheap, and often in a good locations in the city.
Have you ever lived in a Face Me, I Face You ? What was your experience – do you have any funny or crazy stories to tell? Gist us in the comments.
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I have never seen a box of 7 eggs 😅😅😅 !
Many years ago I lived in a face me, I face you apartment in Abule-Egba. This was coming straight from abroad, at the time my dad was being cheap and thought we can blend in with everyone else. Because of all the foreign things we moved in, we got robbed, with cutlass and everything within the first two weeks. It was the most traumatic experience of my life. I remember seeing fear in my fathers eyes for the first time ever and I remember my mother crying of heartbreak. They robbed us of everything and I mean EVERYTHING. Thank God they didn’t physically harm us though. This was over 25 years ago and it still makes my eyes water when I think of it. SMDH
You forgot to mention the one where someone in one of the rooms is doing black magic and the spirits will be sucking blood from all the other tenants in the house
Most dirtiest. London my food. Petrol for my stove. Oyibo people my food . Lot of atrotities..
” …you get the most dirtiest people there…” that’s a first. Never heard that English before.
Hey Battabox, where’s the other pretty, funny girl? Adeola/Adeshola? Not sure which is her name. Did she leave?
Asian here, I have great memories when I visited your country. I stay for 7 days, I get robbed 6 times. I tell friends to get authentic African experience instead of going to the ghettos in america
SO NO SEWAGE SYSTEM IN LAGOS.
battabox where have u been all my life.
battabox start selling those shirts man. make that money lol
That girl cute asf