This is how it all began. I joined an agency that recruits househelp for foreigners: Indians, White people, and all types of people who are not Nigerians. Even though the agency also services some Nigerian homes, they are mostly focused…
(Series written and edited by Peju Akande and based on true stories) True story about my boss’ wife. Full disclosure. I’ve never been the type of woman who got her own man…no, let me rephrasethat. I did have boyfriends but…
If you didn’t know, now you know. You can go to the market, same place they sell pepper, meat, crayfish, ponmo and shaki…yeah and after buying all those you can buy prayers. And you don’t even need to fast or…
I’ve heard stories about fathers having sex with their daughters. Some even impregnating them, never in my life did I think it’ll happen to me. It’s a taboo! My own daughter, having a child for her father! This kind 9f…
I join millions of Lagosians in welcoming the launch of operations of the Blue rail line now operational in the state. I watched a video and saw photos of the train in transit. The clean rail tracks, the neat and…
I japa-ed before it became a thing. I was young. I had just left school. Bright eyed and had just come to the UK to live. Hitherto, I had been coming for summer holidays. I would work at the warehouse.…
Every time I hear about deliverance sessions, I know it’s got to involve a woman. You hardly hear of men undergoing deliverance sessions with pastors. It’s as if men are immune to certain challenges in life that ensure only women…
I was abducted on my way back from school along that notorious Rijana road in Kaduna state, almost four years ago. Our car was attacked, the driver and passengers ran into the bush but the kidnappers chased us out to…
I call my mother, “my aunty” because I grew up believing she was my aunt and I feel cheated by her. She had me in her first year at the university when she was 19 years old. She remained at…
The Dean of the Faculty of Law, University Of Calabar, Prof Cyril Ndifon has again been suspended. This followed allegations of sexual harassment. I said “again” because reports have it that this same Prof Cyril Ndifon was suspended in 2015…
