It is somebody's birthday

A birthday box is the usual answer: cake or doughnuts, snacks, drinks and a card, delivered to their block at a time you pick, from ₦29,000 with delivery in the price. Other things people send: a cake on its own with their name on it, flowers, a meal from a kitchen they like, or a box of whatever they actually eat. If several of you are chipping in, one person orders and everybody pays their share.

Here. We bring cakes to the hostel blocks at PAU and to houses around Ibeju-Lekki, and we can have the name written on it. Say the day and roughly the time you want it there and we work to it.

Yes, and on a birthday that is most of the gift. Tell us the window you want it in. Give us a day's notice where you can: a cake has to be bought and collected, and the good windows go first.

Yes. One person starts it, everybody else joins with a link, and the bill splits between you rather than one person paying for all of it and chasing the rest afterwards.

Yes. The card says whatever you tell us to write, including nothing. We deal with you about the money and the driver only calls them when he is at the door.

Yes, and plenty of these come from parents, from other states and from abroad. Give us their name, their block and the day. You can pay by card in pounds or dollars if you are outside Nigeria.

Boxes start at ₦29,000, delivery included, and any of them can be made bigger or smaller. Tell us what you want to spend and we will put one together to it.

People do it constantly and nobody here thinks anything of it. A box of what you actually want, delivered to your block, is a better birthday than waiting to see whether anybody remembered.