About seven years ago, Olamide set up his record label and released his sophomore album. The record label YBNL came from the sophomore album’s title – Yahoo Boy No Laptop. This epithet did not only ring true at the time,…
How likely are you live to 90? Depends on your gender and body size(CNN)
Living to the ripe old age of 90 may depend on your body size — both height and weight — as well as your level of physical activity, and seems to influence a woman’s lifespan more than it does a…
Yes, widows are lonely. No, they don’t want to sleep with you! -Tara Martins Aisida
Loneliness is such a sad affair crooned Luther Vandross in his song ‘Superstar’ and he was right. Even God acknowledged the fact that it is not good for Man ( female and male) to be alone. It is a terrible…
Breaking all rules from Lagos to Ghana-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
I have never ever obeyed any rule or law for that matter. In a word, I am the exception to every rule. The invitation from Nick Elam, administrator of the Caine Prize for African Writing, was quite straightforward: “This is…
Yes, I beat my landlord black and blue and I will do it again!
I just wanted to teach that man small sense; the man has been testing my patience for long; you also have to know that I am not the only person in that house that has been planning to beat him!…
“Moral Instruction” is Falz trying to be like Fela -Dami Ajayi
Falz may well be the most hard-working Nigerian rapper alive. With three studio albums and one duet EP with Simi already in his kitty (not counting his retinue of comic routines in cyber archives) the lawyer-turned-rapper’s work ethic is quite…
No, not every breast pain is cancer related-
Maybe you were putting your bra on in the morning, reaching for something in a top cabinet, or getting a hug, when you first noticed it — an annoying twinge of pain in one or both of your breasts.While a lot of women…
Yes, God is the husband of the widow but will He sleep with her? -Tara Martins Aisida
A older friend of mine approached me about a month after Mr Aisi’s death and said “Tara when you start having boyfriends don’t have them close to home ooo.” I laughed and told her “ah Aunty my grief is still…
It was Alfa that killed Messiah but now we are all in trouble
We all lived in the same house, here in Ibafo. Alfa, that was what we called him. Though not his real name, we called him so because he was a Muslim cleric and then there was Messiah. He is an…
The day I lost all my books – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It was a windy Tuesday evening, and the traffic jam in Ikeja GRA was choking. I decided to get out of the car of filmmaker Mahmood Ali-Balogun in which I had been for the past hour or so. Rain clouds…