If The Men’s Club Characters Were Your Office Colleagues, You Would Definitely Recognise Them
One Nigerian series that gives us an interesting collection of office personalities to explore is The Men’s Club. The series takes viewers into the lives of a group of friends navigating adulthood, with all the relationships, ambition, and personal struggles that come with it.
Now imagine taking these characters out of their usual settings and dropping them into a Nigerian corporate office. The dynamics would be hilarious, and the office politics would be even better.
Here is how you would identify them if they were your colleagues.
Aminu: The Corporate Big Boy
Every organisation has that one colleague who seems to have a contact for everything. In The Men’s Club, that colleague is Aminu. He understands that business is not just about what you know, but who you know, so he is always networking, building relationships, and looking for the next big opportunity.
At office events, you will find him exchanging business cards and turning conversations into partnerships. While everyone else is catching up with their peers, Aminu is expanding his network. He probably knows the CEO personally and has the MD’s direct line on speed dial.
How to identify him: He starts almost every conversation with, “I know someone who can help with that.”
Tayo: The Office Lover Boy
The Men’s Club Tayo is that colleague who seems to have admirers in every department. He understands that sometimes, all it takes is a little charm and attention to turn an interaction into something more.
At office events, he is the one making people laugh and winning hearts without even trying. He is probably the reason some colleagues put extra effort into their outfits on days they know he will be around.
How to identify him: He is in every department’s WhatsApp group, and every one of them replies to him.
Lola: The Colleague Who Always Has Tea
If information were a corporate asset, Lola would be the company’s most valuable employee. She knows who is dating who, who argued with the manager, who is secretly interviewing elsewhere, and who has been coming to work suspiciously early. Nobody remembers telling her these things. She just knows.
Lola is the unofficial office information centre. She can walk into the kitchen for a cup of coffee and return with three new updates, two theories, and one piece of information that will completely change how you see your department. You might not want to tell Lola everything, but you definitely want to know what Lola knows.
How to identify her: She says, “I’m not one to gossip, but…” and then keeps going for ten minutes.
Lanre: The Colleague Who Always Has a Plan
While everyone else is panicking about an approaching deadline, Lanre is calm. He has already considered the worst-case scenario, identified the possible challenges, and prepared alternatives. If Plan A fails, there’s Plan B. If Plan B doesn’t work, Plan C is waiting patiently in the background. And if Plan C fails? Plan D.
He’s the colleague you want on your team when things get complicated. He thinks ahead, watches the details, and rarely gets caught off guard.
There is one small issue. Sometimes his plans are so well thought out that you start to wonder whether the team is working on a simple presentation or preparing for a national emergency. Still, everyone needs a Lanre when things get chaotic.
How to identify him: He sent an email titled “Contingency Plan” before anyone had officially admitted there was a problem.
Jasmine: The Office Baddie
Jasmine is that colleague. It doesn’t matter what day of the week it is, her outfit is going to eat. Hair laid, accessories coordinated, not a wrinkle in sight.
She knows how to carry herself and never misses a chance to make an impression. At office events, she’s the one everyone wants a picture with, and her Instagram stories are pure corporate chic.
Her colleagues might assume she spends all her time thinking about fashion, but Jasmine knows how to balance looking good with getting the job done.
How to identify her: She has never once said, “I didn’t know we were taking pictures today.”
Louis: The Main Character
There is always that one colleague who treats every meeting like their personal episode, and Louis is that colleague.
He is ambitious, expressive, and very clear about how things should be done. In meetings, he wants his contributions recognised. When a project succeeds, he wants everyone to know how much he helped. When things go wrong, he has a detailed explanation, and it is never his fault.
Louis isn’t a bad colleague. His confidence and willingness to speak up can be genuinely valuable, but working with him requires a little extra patience.
How to identify him: The meeting is about the quarterly budget, but Louis has turned it into a discussion about his personal growth journey.
The truth is, most offices have a little bit of all these characters, and you might even recognise some of these traits in yourself.
This is what makes The Men’s Club such an interesting series to revisit.
Watch The Men’s Club on REDTV’s YouTube channel and revisit the characters who make every episode worth it.