The Bible says to everyman his own…let me add, to everywoman her own too. I am a widow. I lost my husband a few years back. He was a businessman. He would often get or buy contracts, execute them and…
I am a widow but I am also your daughter, sister, mother and most importantly, human-Omotara Martins Aisida
I have had a relatively short journey into widowhood but it’s been a sheltered one. However, I am daily confronted with the realities of so many women who have lost their life partners and have suffered greatly for being widows…
How To Get The Ancestors Drunk-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is an icon of impeccable style. When his namesake, Wole Oguntokun, inaugurated his epoch-making Theatre Republic in Lekki, Lagos, Soyinka was present in fine fettle to do the dedication. Soyinka asked for vintage wine from Oguntokun,…
The guilt sent my mother to an early grave
I remember my mother of blessed memory. Maami as we fondly called her passed on a few years ago from a guilty conscience. That’s the only thing I think could have killed my physically strong mother. Maami was a devout…
I want to return my boyfriend to his wife because I am tired of him
Before you judge me, just let tell my story first, ok? I have had enough from my friends and family that my ear is bent. That one don do me, biko. So in the spirit of gisting, let me tell…
I used to be a rapper and they called me Buck – Dami Ajayi
I used to rap. My steady urging at stringing rhymes together was at the instance of a well, from which I fetched water on a daily basis. Between throwing the fetcher and drawing water, I found a rhythm to which…
If the dead could speak; guess what they would say- Tara Martins Aisida
Some years back I read Stephen Covey’s book the “7 principles of highly effective people.” Chapter one- “Begin with the end in mind” was for me the whole essence of the book. In that chapter, he asked us to imagine…
Like Esau who sold his birthright, this couple sold their soul for rent
I reported my neighbor to the police because I saw them colluding with our landlord to abuse their 14 year old daughter. We live in Makoko. Our house is a face-me- I -face-you. There are six rooms on each side…
Welcome To The Federal Republic Of Retired Generals-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The military never left power. Forget all that jazz about democracy in the so-called “Giant of Africa”. Even common civil rule is neither here nor there. The democracy we practice in Nigeria is a musical chair of retired generals.…
After 23 years, I now understand why my mother left us
There’s a photo of an aged woman found wandering and looking lost at the bus stop of Silverbird Galleria in Lagos being circulated on WhatsApp. It says the woman, in her 70s, had been found by good Samaritans, she was…