I recently watched MO Abudu’s new film Olotore said to be inspired by the work of an undercover reporter Tobore Ovuorie who in 2014 published a report titled “Inside Nigeria’s ruthless human trafficking mafia.” The film comes highly recommended, it…
I have HIV and my father said to keep mum from mum
I am normal; I look normal, I do everything ok and yet I am HIV positive. I didn’t know about my status until I got admitted into the university. I attend a private university in Nigeria where you have to…
Life is a leveler joo-Tara Aisida
When you think you have it all figured out, it throws you a curve ball and you stand wondering at how finite you are and how you are so not in control. I have become more reflective with age and…
Call me wicked if you like, but I have left my brother and his wife at the hospital to suffer!
My younger brother is a lay-about; he was spoilt rotten by our parents because he came out as the last born. Our parents didn’t discipline him the way they did us, so he has ended up spoilt, entitled and generally…
After Covid-19, we may have a mental health pandemic. Are we prepared? – Tara Aisida
I don’t know about you but when I drive or walk down the streets in the city I live in , I tend to look at people’s eyes and wonder about their history and what is going on in their…
From a crying baby to a mogul, I am proud of my friend
Our paths crossed many years back at a secondary school Ijebu ode; we were in the same class. I was the class captain of my class and even after we left school, my mates call me ‘Kaptain’; in short many…
Our daughter is missing but I just wish she is dead!
She went missing shortly before the lockdown. She had a habit of going missing for days but somehow always found her way home, though of course in all of these ‘missings,’ we would usually send a search party out and…
Are you in a sexless marriage? – Tara Aisida
As a single matured woman, I am wont to look enviously at married couples especially on cold wet nights and wonder what must be going on behind closed doors. I imagine how sweaty and steamy their love making is and…
My mum and I are enemies just like she was with her mum. Tell me, are we cursed?
I never met my grandma because my mother never let us; she never let us and she herself never even went to visit grandma nor was she on speaking terms with grandma, till the old woman died. I heard bits…
This “Touch not my prophet…” is bull crap! – Tara Aisida
I looked him straight in the eye and told him, “leaving your church doesn’t mean I wouldn’t get into heaven, we will both meet there and thank God you wouldn’t be at the gate to determine who comes in.” We…