I met my wife on Facebook; that was about 5 years ago. The photo she put as her profile photo was not her real photo but you know women can be very deceptive. She told me she was a Master’s…
I have an identical twin sister but we are sworn enemies. My twin sister and I were not like this before. Growing up, very few people could tell us apart. We are both gap toothed, we are both dark in…
I am an Uber driver and I have been in this business for the past three years. I graduated with a 2.1 Pharmacy degree 10 years ago from a state university in the east. I was hired to work in…
I am writing this missive after my umpteenth visit to the loo, fighting yet another episode of food poisoning in this Lagos. I no dey hear word. But why write about food instead of music? Well, didn’t someone say music…
“A rich and mighty Persian once walked in his garden with one of his servants. The servant cried that he had just encountered Death, which had threatened him. He begged his master to give him his fastest horse so that…
I am a mother for five children, four girls and one boy. I married into a polygamous home, the second wife of an Owo Chief. My husband is in his late 70s and like many Nigerian men in his days,…
I am an expert at ignorance. I just do not know why just one day should be set aside as International Women’s Day. All the days of the calendar ought to belong to women. I have spoken. To be a…
Life is funny; sometime it spits in your face and sometimes it takes you over a curve and you smile. I am in the hospital not to visit a friend o, the person I am visiting with all these packed…
Why do we suffer to make a living only to die, eventually? What is the reason for our being here, for the length of time we spend on this side and why? I have asked these questions for a very…
I trusted my father to be the one to protect me but he didn’t. I am almost 18 years old and I will finish with secondary school by June this year. I would have finished a long time before now…
