One day, the police will be your friend

Did you get to see that video clip of Nigeria’s paramilitary officers singing a special rendition of that popular Christmas song, Feliz Navidad? Yeah? Were you impressed with the pretty fair-skinned Civil Defence female officer in the opening scene and…

My son’s friend is my baby’s father

It’s true I am expecting a baby and the father is my son’s friend. But you have already judged me. The reason you have judged me even before hearing my full story is because I am a woman. If I…

I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but my father was an evil man

We were friends at school. And for a long time, my siblings and I had no idea our father was sleeping with our friend. We wouldn’t have known if my mother hadn’t confirmed it when Baba died suddenly. And when…

Hey, stop looking down on that ‘aboki’ – Lucia Edafioka

If you look around you, you’ll notice that the number of northerners in Lagos has increased. It is a case of cause and effect; the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast has forced a lot of people to move down…

Man stabs friend over N400 (Punch)

The police have arrested a 25-year-old man, Morenikeji Oguntoyinbo, for allegedly stabbing his friend, Emmanuel Ibeh, in the neck with a broken bottle during a scuffle in their residence on Benson bus stop, Ikorodu, Lagos. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident…

Adult-ing is not easy at all – Abiodun Kuforiji Nkwocha

When my friend’s father died almost 2 years ago, I wrote a poem in his memory called ‘The Landscape is changing’. The clear picture of my childhood that included my parents, her parents, my aunts and uncles and our homes…

Esprit de coitus – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Men are not jealous beings. Forget whatever you read elsewhere. Go to any brothel and see how men share women without any jealousy whatsoever stepping in to stop the jollification. In my early days in this Lagos, when I was…

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