Prizm

Prizm is the big house at No. 1145 June 12 Street, lit purple and impossible to miss. Its owner is the Warden, Chief Lazarus Ekanem, who spent thirty-one years at Kirikiri prison next door and named his club for the difference between a prism and a prison. Nobody is quite sure why the house is numbered 1145. The Warden says it is the minute he walked out of Kirikiri for the last time.

It is the only compound on June 12 Street that opens to the public. In the party, any ticket gets you through the regular door to the ground floor, and VIP tickets use the VIP entrance to the rooms beyond. Bouncers stand at both doors, and now and then they wave in a guest with no ticket at all; Natasha runs the floor inside.

Inside

The ground floor, where the stage is and where the Warden keeps his back booth. The pool deck. The rooftop garden, with the prison lights just across the road and the port cranes beyond them. And the artist's lounge and backstage, for the very few.

Joe-Izzy, every night

The artist Joe-Izzy plays Prizm every night from 9 pm to 1 am Lagos time. Inside the compound the music is loud; out on the street it drifts over the wall. His songs "Asset", "High On Life" and "Worry (feat. Trevv)" are on the estate radio, so the whole street knows the words.