I once escorted a friend to our children’s school Accounts office to help plead for more time to pay her children’s school fees. My friend was a single parent, her ex-husband would not pay school fees but would buy the…
My sister and I are very close; so close that even after we got married, our husbands found it difficult to understand our bond and many times both men would quarrel with us saying we preferred each other to them.…
Two years ago, I cheated on my wife. I swear, it wasn’t deliberate. It just happened…and lasted for… well, for almost two years. Yeah, I know, something I didn’t plan and yet lasted for almost two years. You won’t believe…
We met at a re-union after 30 years. But let me back track a bit to give you context. We finished secondary school in 1988 and after that I went to the UK to continue my studies. When I finished,…
“No one owes you anything” was a refrain I heard severally when I was growing up and l in reply would often snicker in my mind “I didn’t beg to be born, so you owe me plenty.” The true meaning…
I want to start my story by saying that some people are just bad for business; they are the reason a lot of people who are in business go into all forms of fetish things. I am not in support…
I was in my early-thirties and newly married when my father married a 19-year-old girl. Yes, I am telling you the truth. My father was an Imam. He was popular in his area and he was also not poor, you…
It was 2001 and I had just moved to Philadelphia. It was taking a minute to adjust because apart from me being a little introverted, Philly people, or Philippians as I ironically called them, were not friendly people. I didn’t…
When people cannot find an easy solution to a problem, they throw their hands up in the air and walk away. Parents who get tired of telling their children how to do certain chores, and do not have the patience…
You know, women say men are scum; but my sister, women are not the salt of the earth themselves. They find it easy to call us names but some women can bring out the worst in you. I met Ada…
