💼Jobs & careers33 careers, every title and pay grade📍Places138 venues with hours and activities🏡Homes & rent17 homes, rent, move-in and buy prices🍛Food & groceries25 groceries and restaurant meals🛋️Furniture104 items for your home✨Skills & traits9 skills, 10 traits💚Needs6 needs and how fast they drain🚐Transport & cars6 ways to travel, 26 cars🏪Businesses & land8 businesses, 6 land plots
Glossary
Lagos Life talks like Lagos. Here's what the words mean.
- Danfo
- The yellow minibus. ₦100 + ₦5 per km, and it sits in traffic.
- Keke
- Tricycle taxi. Same fare as a danfo, a bit slower, less affected by traffic.
- Okada
- Motorbike taxi. ₦150 + ₦8 per km, the fastest through go-slow.
- Go-slow
- Lagos traffic. It slows danfos and cabs far more than okadas.
- NEPA
- Power cuts. A generator or solar keeps your appliances running.
- Face-me-I-face-you
- A single room in a shared compound. The cheapest home in Mushin.
- Self-contain
- A one-room flat with its own kitchen and bathroom. The Yaba starter home.
- Mini-flat
- A one-bedroom flat. The Nepo Baby home in Lekki.
- Buka / Mama Put
- A local restaurant. Amala Shitta is the famous one in Surulere.
- Baff
- Pidgin for bath. Fixes Hygiene.
- Belle
- Stomach. "Belle full" is a happy moodlet after a big meal.
- Gist
- Chat, gossip. Gisting with people fills Social.
- Owambe
- A big Nigerian party. The Owambe Spirit trait loves them.
- Aso-ebi
- Matching outfits for a party or wedding.
- Spraying money
- Throwing notes on dancers at a party.
- Alabaru
- A market porter. "Carry Load" at Balogun Market is a no-skill gig.
- Omo-onile
- Land grabbers who demand money from plot owners. Cheaper land has a higher risk.
- Agbero
- Motor park touts.
- Area boys
- Street thugs. They can rob you.
- Tokunbo
- Imported second-hand, like the "Tokunbo Baby Boy" Corolla.
- Padi / Paddy Mi
- Friend / best friend. Relationship levels run Stranger → Acquaintance → Padi → Paddy Mi.
- Werey
- An enemy: what someone becomes when your relationship drops to −30 or below.
- Bae
- Your partner.
- Nepo Baby
- The rich start: ₦500,000, a car and Daddy pays rent.
- LAPO Baby
- The self-made start, named after a microfinance lender: a ₦60,000 loan and faster skills.
- Blessings
- A reward currency from promotions, streaks and goals.
- Lagos Rep
- Your reputation level. Raised by daily missions; needed for higher promotions.
- Moodlet
- A temporary mood boost or drop, like "Promoted!" or "Still Shaking".
- Chowdeck
- The in-game food delivery app.
- Grade
- The four steps (I–IV) inside each job title. You climb grades before you get promoted.
- EFCC
- Nigeria’s anti-fraud agency. In the game it investigates suspicious money.