I was going through Pinterest recently and a post caught my attention. It was labeled the Children’s Divorce Bill of Rights. I read through the rights and it made a whole lot of sense to me. I am sure several…
My sister has sickle cell. My mother had endued three pregnancies and buried two baby girls before she was born. The third time, my mother’s baby girl did not die… we named her Boluwatife, meaning, this is the way God…
Why did I let Area boys rape me? That’s a question I will never be able to truly answer. Who asked this question of me? My husband; he asked me when I came running home one morning after I…
My friends call me abo ko ku! It means one who wants to die for the sake of her husband. I agree I may be that and I have no apologies for being who I am. I have no apologies…
I am a great fan of Barry White and one of his less known songs titled “whatever we had we had” dedicated to his second wife Glodean is one of my many favourites. He was said to have sang two…
As you’re seeing me so, I almost finished secondary school. If not for bad friends, I almost did my waec and I swear, I could have passed! But I didn’t finish school, I joined bad gang and I steal phones…
My best friend, Thelma and I have been together for more than 30years. We practically grew up as siblings because our mothers were besties when they worked together at one of the government parastatals in Lagos then after marriage they…
Recently, I was in the company of a friend and a younger lady. We were talking about a mutual friend who is beginning to find her feet and whose husband is threatened by her growing self-awareness when the younger lady…
When I sent my daughter out of the house, I didn’t do it because I wanted to wicked her or because I am a bad mother. I did it out of frustration. I know my daughter is quite wayward, ha,…
My brother is married to a woman whose family has bad luck. I said bad luck runs in that family because so many young deaths have occurred in the last 20 years, well that is about the same period my brother…
