GoodLiving Podcast

A bus that won't fill up. A driver they say has bad energy. A race against a 6.30pm kickoff. In this real-time recorded episode, Koke narrates one ordinary Monday evening — and finds an unexpected lesson on manifestation hiding inside it. Not a lecture. A story, told as it happened, with the thinking left in. Marcos couldn't make it to football today, so Koke has to find his own way to the pitch —...

There is a name for something you have been watching happen for years. The Olodo Uprising — a slow cultural shift away from intellectualism and toward the celebration of stupidity — has been building in Nigeria's music, comedy, governance, and everyday life. In this episode, Koke traces how it started, why it has thrived, and why the people who can see it most clearly are also the ones making it h...

In this episode, Koke unpacks the aspirational timeline, the social expectation, and the specific, uneven pressure that lands on women when they fail to meet it. From old Nollywood to the church pew to the auntie at the family -- the expectation is everywhere. Nobody agreed to it. Nobody can even say exactly where it came from. And yet, somehow, all of us have internalised it so deeply that we use...

They are putting ads on WhatsApp. The one app most Nigerians use for everything -- family, business, community, privacy. And if you are surprised, Koke thinks you should not be. Because this was always where it was going. In this episode, he traces the line from the moment these platforms launched for free to where that decision has now brought us. Somebody had to pay for Instagram. Somebody had t...

You turned off your WhatsApp blue tick. Maybe to avoid confrontation. Maybe to buy yourself time. Maybe just because you do not want people knowing when you have seen their messages. But it says something. And we think you already know what it says. In this episode, we build a full argument for why transparency is not just a moral virtue -- it is a practical advantage. And why the people who opt o...

The prostitutes of the future are in primary school right now. So are the armed robbers, the cultists, the bad politicians. We know this. So why are we not doing anything about it? That is the question this episode is actually asking. Koke works through a genuine philosophical argument about prostitution, not from a moral panic position, but from a structural one. Why has the world's oldest profes...

Lagos has between 18 and 22 million residents. A housing deficit running into millions of units. And if you are a young person who just moved here, a self-contained apartment now starts at N800,000 a year. If you are lucky. Koke just finished house hunting in Lagos. This episode is the full debrief. He breaks down exactly why Lagos rent is this expensive as a structural argument. The city attracts...

Arsenal are champions. 22 years. This is a bonus episode: not the usual GoodLiving format. This one is for the Arsenal fans. And for everyone who has ever been the underdog. Because what this Arsenal journey has been about. Since 2019, since Arteta, since two years of trusting a process while the whole internet laughed is something that goes beyond football. It's about what happens when mockery be...

The final episode of the NYSC Series is here. After 341 days of service in Lagos, this episode captures the real emotions of finishing NYSC . Growth, loss, ambition, survival, and everything in between. From sneaking into exam halls in university to building a podcast during service year, this is an honest reflection on how life can completely change in one year. In this episode: • Finishing NYSC...

How much money does a man have to make? How much fame? How much sense? What does it actually take to avoid the kind of public embarrassment Frank Edoho is going through right now? This episode isn't about Frank Edoho or Chike specifically, the full truth of what happened between them isn't fully known. But the situation forced a bigger conversation about where men actually draw their ethical lines...

The NYSCeries is back. Day 334. Final clearance. After months of sporadic recording, Koke returns to the series to document the day his NYSC service officially started winding down; final clearance, hundreds of corpers, one room, and a queue that had no respect for anybody. He also sits with something he's been turning over for a while: what does it mean to be 28 in a scheme built for 24-year-olds...

Your phone isn't listening to you. It doesn't need to. In this episode, Kokeboi breaks down the actual mechanism behind why your ads feel so personal, from the tags that record everything you do on a website, to the cookies that follow you across the entire internet, to the device fingerprinting system that knows your Wi-Fi network, your language settings, your battery level, and your screen brigh...

In March 2023, Kokeboi recorded an episode about why he doesn't go to church. Two years later, people are still asking him the same question. His answer hasn't changed. So instead of re-recording it from scratch, he's doing something GoodLiving has never done before, handing the episode over to his 2023 self, because that version said it better than he could today. Three arguments. All of them sti...

This is the final episode of GoodLiving's Nigerian leadership history series — covering 1914 to 1999 across three episodes. In this episode, Koke stops narrating and starts drawing conclusions. After weeks of research into Nigeria's political history, the colonial handover, the coups, the oil boom and bust, the military transitions, the return to civilian rule, seven patterns have become impossibl...

I strongly believe that, to understand the present, one needs a good understanding of the past. This episode is a narrative of the movement of power between the period just after the civil war in 1970, until we started our democratic governement in 1999. SOURCES: A history of Nigeria by Jide Olanrewaju FIND GOODLIVING ONLINE TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@goodlivingpodcast?is_from_webapp=1&se...

When young people in Nigeria become apathetic toward their history and politics, the consequences can be deeply damaging to the nation’s future. A lack of historical awareness makes it easier for misinformation to spread, allowing past mistakes: such as ethnic conflicts and governance failures to repeat themselves. Political apathy also weakens democratic institutions, as disengaged youth are less...

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You are already somebody's example. You probably don't know who. And you definitely didn't consent to it. In this episode, Koke gets into something that keeps him up at night, the weight of being watched by people who are copying you without saying a word. The teenage boy in your compound. The younger cousin. The kid on the street who sees you as proof of what adulthood looks like. He opens with s...

In 1925, light bulb manufacturers could make a bulb that lasted over 3,000 hours. By 1930, the biggest companies in the world had secretly met in Geneva and agreed to cap that lifespan at 1,000. Not because they couldn't do better. Because if the bulb lasted forever, nobody would keep buying. This is planned obsolescence — and it didn't stop with light bulbs. In this episode, Kokeboi breaks down p...

Why does it seem like good things always happen to people who already have everything and the person who's struggling, who actually needs a break, keeps getting nothing? Koke has a theory. And it's not luck In this episode, he unpacks the concept of frequency — the idea that the energy and emotional state you operate from determines what finds its way to you. Not as a mystical law of attraction, b...

Most friendships don't end in a fight. They end in a hundred small things that were never said. A slight that felt too minor to bring up. A word that landed wrong. A moment where you felt unseen and let it go. And then another. And another. Until one day you realise you don't feel the same way about that person anymore, and you can't even explain why. In this episode, Koke gets into the real mecha...

Tough times create strong people. Strong people create good times. Good times create weak people. Weak people create tough times. We are somewhere in that cycle right now. And Koke thinks we are not the strong part. In this episode, he builds a theory about why the world is genuinely getting worse, not just politically or economically, but biologically and intellectually. Average IQ is declining i...

In 2025, the Nigerian government allocated over 400 billion naira to healthcare. The amount actually disbursed to hospitals across the country? 36 million naira. That gap between what was promised and what arrived is the story of Nigeria. In this episode, he makes one simple, uncomfortable argument: if you are suffering in Nigeria right now — struggling to pay rent, riding danfo to work every day...

Every year in Nigeria, something happens. A woman is assaulted. The internet erupts. And then — nothing changes. Koke thinks part of the reason nothing changes is because of how the conversation is being had. In this episode, he makes a clear, uncomfortable argument: rapists are not men. They are rapists. And when the response to sexual violence lumps all men together, it doesn't just feel unfair...

My father died at 67. My mother died at 36. And for years, i told himself he had time. Time to fix things. Time to travel with my dad. Time to show my parents the life i was building. Time to start eating right, saving money, and so on. I didn't. This episode is about the bias nobody talks about — the quiet, comfortable lie that there is always more time. That you can start next year. That the peo...