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The true story behind Fela’s hit song- ‘I no be gentleman’ – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Let me make this confession from the very beginning: I am a gentleman. Please this should be read to mean that I am not in the same slapping class as that Slapping Senator of the Sex Toy Shop!I am different.…

They say bail is free, yet my daughter is still in prison

Look at me. I am younger than you and yet I look like your older sister. It is the suffering of this world that has turned me into an old woman? I am just 44 years old, but a widow…

Help! My wife prefers sex toys to my thing

That Senator caught in a sex toy shop is a correct man! Wait! Let me define it, clearly. I am not in support of any man assaulting his wife or any woman for that matter. At all! I have always…

Wives, stop enabling your husbands when they do wrong -Tara Martins Aisida

I  watched a film recently. It was titled THE WIFE and it’s about a man who won the Nobel prize. In the midst of his acceptance speech, he thanked his wife for her support and that prompted her storming out…

Our silence killed our friend.

Something happened to my son recently at school. That is the reason I decided to share my own story. Well, it’s really not my story, per se, it’s the story of four young men, four undergraduates from one of Nigeria’s…

Haba! Men want to finish women in Nigerian politics-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Nigerian politics is hell for the Nigerian woman. Every Nigerian lady who has taken the plunge into the murky waters of partisan politics has very sordid tales to tell. A good number of women have tried to walk tall alongside…

Dear Mummy, you are not a Super Hero(ine)

I recently had cause to remind my adult children that they i the greatest beneficiaries of their education and that they were not doing me or anyone but themselves a favour by being responsible individuals. I made the statement because…

My mother had me at 15. I had mine at 15 but I swore my daughter would be different!

Mine is a twisted story but I’ll try to break it down. My mother got pregnant when she was 14 years in form two in secondary school, back when JSS and SS hadn’t been introduced into our school system. She…

Chai, Buratai has finished our soldiers -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

The patriot in me cries foul. How can our army chief claim that our soldiers lack fighting spirit?   With proper backing and motivation, the Nigerian military can flush out Boko Haram and the so-called bandits. Be it peacekeeping or…

My two sons are fighting over one woman and her child. Who do I support?

‘I will kill you,” he shouted at his brother.  ‘I swear I will kill you!’ Then he turned to me, his eyes red with anger and tears. It broke my heart as he kept repeating himself.   ‘Tell your son,…

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