Lagos State Government Must Check The Excesses Of Housing Agents – Stephanie Coker

Popular media personality, Stephanie Coker Aderinokun has come out to speak about the different exorbitant charges Lagos housing agents place on prospective clients.

She recently had her say via a post on her Instastories, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to her, she once contacted a housing agent and was asked to pay N20,000 non-negotiable viewing charge, and some housing agencies in the country even go as far as demanding 20% agency fee.

Stephanie then called on the Lagos state government to step in and regulate the excesses of these housing agents.

Her words,

WOW.

Stephanie Coker (born Stephanie Omowunmi Eniafe Coker; 28 November 1988), is a Nigerian on-air personality and a television presenter for MTV Base Africa and EbonyLife TV. She also featured as ‘Feke’ in the popular Nigerian TV series Tinsel and a popular sitcom program Hustle as “Cindy”.

Coker was born in Lagos, but moved to North London, in the UK at the age of 1. She attended St Mary’s Church of England Primary school in North London, a place she described as “a really small school where Christianity was taken very seriously”. She later graduated from Brunel University with a degree in Media and Communications.

Stephanie Coker moved back to Nigeria in 2011 and got her first job with MTV Base Africa as an anchor of the countdown show Street Request.

Since then, she has worked on various projects and shows such as Cool FM Midday Oasis Show, MTV Big Friday Show (with Basketmouth), Tinsel on Africa Magic.