“Molues” were the kings of Lagos roads.


These typically rickety motorized contraptions are built from a Mercedes or Bedford lorry-head.


When in motion –they sometimes give an impression that their tyres and the steering wheel are not in unity.


Sometimes, patronizing Molues is a necessary inconvenience.


The only edge these uniquely designed mammy-wagons commanded over other modes of transportation was its affordability. For a pittance, a passenger could be transported to a distant location within Lagos.


Riding in Molues is always an adventure. As soon as one is inside, drama is never in short supply.


The ability to embark and to disembark from a Molue is a special art form. The doors are not necessarily the only point of entrance. The windows come in handy too.


A ride in a Molue offers not a few side attractions. For instance, it offers a substantial dose of aggravations, entertainment, commercial activities; pocket-picking opportunities, sexual harassments, etc.


The passengers in a Molue is often an odd mismatched assortment of people. The typical ratio is “49 seating and 99 standing”. Some of the passengers can easily pass for escapees from a prison or a psychiatric hospital.


Then there is the combative driver and his conductors. They are the kings here. The Molue is their kingdom. Common courtesy, respect for others and decorum is totally alien to them.


Moreover, to be a Molue driver or conductors, besides driving skills, other credentials required include a husky voice and body odour.


The conductors also enjoy rubbing their sweaty bodies against the bodies of the multitude of standing passengers whenever they wriggle around to collect the fares.


In Molues, it is almost customary for a journey to begin with a prayer or religious session. One of the passengers usually conducts this. When done, the same passenger, or another, would later proceed to advertise some pharmaceutical or herbal concoction.
These products are typically sold with a claim to potency for all manner of sicknesses and diseases - from the common cold to Cancer and HIV! Bizarrely, too, some of the products boast of a NAFDAC endorsement.


Indeed, there is never a dull moment in this theatre of the absurd.


Today, this legend of the Lagos roads gradually fades into extinction.


However, we cannot help but admit the entertainment riding in Molues brought to the lives of commuters in Lagos.

Nevertheless, the iconic Molue is one experience that we will all love to miss.


Or will you miss the legendary Lagos Molues?


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Nobody can take molue out of lagos o, we cant do without it.

-The big bus is for smartest people in Lagos , u can go in with #100 and come down with #500 ...no need to pick pocket o but u can collect some of the co passenger's fare together and not remit it to the conductor especially from Kola to Oshodi .

- You can refuse to pay the conductor and still slap him if he talks too much.

- Molue where kids dont have respect for elders, small pikins go sitdon and old man go dey on standing.

- Molue where driver will be driving half unclad

- Molue where number of passengers on standing triple the number of the sitting while those hanging is equal to sittings

- Molue where fats people go dey tell the slim ones to shift properly

- Molue where slayqeens and slaykings will be calling their lovers that they are in uber even with the noise

- Molue where one medicine can cure all sicknesses/diseases

- Molue where fake people will be making fake calls to spirit that ''I'm in a public bus'' just to woo a lady

- molue where u will know the level of some men in suits (imagine almost 20 men wearing suits in the heat)

- Molue where there is no rich or the poor everybody is equal , if u want respect go carry uber !!

- The molue smell is bae

Molue is Lagos legend

Those buses lacked horse power,

would always lean to one side,

and always one useless passenger would release a stinky rotten fart!

I won't miss them at all.

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Never

It's a part of 9ja lifestyle.. Will be missed

Too Low For Zero - Molue (Lagos City transport) (1986).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNb8qQAsddw

How will transportation be like in lagos without molue

lolzz I will surely miss the action film that happens all the time inside molue,like different types of fart odour,body odour,some go toast u sef,fighting,conductor wahala(joining of 3 to 4 peoples together becos u wan collect ur change),and the most crazy part that always happened all the time...that moment the driver press break and everybody wey dey standing section just glue together most guys enjoyed that part and to crown it all u go don't dey shout your bustop name and hitting the molue 3bustops away b4 u reach your bustop...hmmmm Lagos na real wa.

Once lost my wallet in one of them. Didn't know how to explain when I had to pay. The experience was harrowing.

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space booker....mr ok, i hail oo

Safety first. Then better pricing

I would, really i would.

this pic jst show d high level of poverty in nigeria ..

Forever and ever....
It helped those days.....

There was a country

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Yes im already missing and would like to go on an adventure with one, anytime i visit next real soon.I was asking my Dad recently about molue and he regarded them as Coffin lol...Its part of a Lagosian Identity.

I can't miss negative things gone with my past.....

I'll not miss molue as transportation have been more redefined over the years but it was real fun while they lasted.

I never gbadun that means of transportation for one day
Either your cloth is torn, you'll sustain an injury or you may be pick-pocketed while trying to catch up with the bus
I will never miss it...!

If you are never a passenger or knew molue, you are new in Lagos and you have no story to tell about Lagos


Molue: The face of Lagos and the life saver of hustlers and job hunters (it helped move from one spot to the other without and or with little money)

I wld miss d molue

From iyana ipaja down to oshodi, den anoda to yaba, dats how I shuttled myself around 2002 to yabatech, I would wait by d door till I hear 'standing' which was way cheaper Dan sitting.

Now when am driving to work and I see d molue, I just laugh n I pray for those entering to stop just like me.

Molue, d experience is compared to non

For those that havent seen molue or entered one b4, kindly go to oshodi or Iyana Ipaja.

Most people won't miss them, because the generation didn't experience much of them.... all this early and late 90s children lol

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Otipe gaan

Change is constant.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!