AJ CitiesIloro House
A face-me-I-face-you at No. 3: eight rooms, one kitchen, one bathroom, one bench. AJ lives in Room 3.
The street
June 12 Street
The estate's one main street: a coal pot, a rooming house, a clinic, a gym, a restaurant and a club.
- No. 1
- Mama Shola Hot Stuff Restaurant & Grill; the Parade Room at the back
- No. 3
- Iloro House, AJ's rooming house
- No. 4
- Prizm's grounds, entered only through the club
- No. 5
- June 12 Community Clinic and Funke's home
- No. 8
- The family's house and home gym
- No. 1145
- Prizm, the club house
June 12 Street is the estate's one main street and its living room. Most compound gates on it stay locked; the street itself belongs to everyone. Here is who lives where.
No. 1: Mama Shola Hot Stuff Restaurant & Grill
Opposite Prizm, Mama Shola owns the restaurant that feeds half of June 12 Street. She runs the Hot Counter in front; Mama Bisola, her head cook, keeps the kitchen and her soldiers' four favourites: jollof rice and chicken for ₦1,500, beans and dodo (fried plantain), goat pepper soup and cold zobo, a hibiscus drink. The old dining room lives on as the Parade Room, where soldiers from the training facility eat with their helmets off.
Outside under the red canopy, Mallam Sani turns the suya at the Hot Stuff Grill and Ronke, the waitress, carries plates between the hall and terrace. The late kitchen feeds hungry Prizm guests on party nights. There is no alcohol, no credit today, and plenty of pepper. Outside the compound, Chuks keeps his own coal pot and cooks for everyone else.
No. 3: Iloro House
A face-me-I-face-you rooming house, eight rooms facing each other down one corridor. AJ lives in Room 3, Dozie in Room 6. More about Iloro House.
No. 4: Prizm's grounds
The plot beside the club belongs to Prizm. Its own street gate stays locked under a sign that reads PRIZM GROUNDS, ENTRY AT No. 1145, so the only way in is through the club. Prizm is expanding into the grounds next door.
No. 5: the June 12 Community Clinic
Nurse Adaeze Okafor, Dr. Funmilayo Ige and Dr. Chidi Nwachukwu treat anyone for free, which is useful with the dogs at No. 8 across the street. Funke and her father live in the flat behind it, and she talks from the upstairs window at night.
No. 8: the family's house
Dimeji, Yelena and their five children, a home gym in the yard with a radio that never goes off, and three guard dogs. Meet the family.
No. 1145: Prizm
The club house. Any party ticket opens the ground floor, VIP tickets open the rest, and Joe-Izzy is on stage every night from 9 pm. Inside Prizm.
The Afternoon Store
A kiosk with cold water when the power stays on, and the pepper and onions Chuks is always running out of.
Nearby
AJ's home The club Prizm
The Warden's club at No. 1145: purple lights, a pool deck, a rooftop garden and Joe-Izzy live every night.
The estate Abraham Adesyan Estate
A walled estate on the edge of Ajegunle, where Navy Town meets Kirikiri. One street, one club, one gate that costs ₦2,500,000.