My best friend killed himself at 17. Lemme tell you why!

Daniel was my friend. We were friends from nursery school continued halfway through primary school then met again in secondary school. It wasn’t planned, it just happened. The funny thing is, much as we were close, our parents weren’t close.…

My parents say I can’t marry my fiancée because she is too old

My mum always likes to say, “when a bird is alive, it eats ants. When the bird has died, ants eat it”. It was and has always been her favourite saying and she has been mouthing those words as far…

Okay, I killed my son but I swear I did it to save him

I am a mother who wanted the best for her child. I am a woman, who suffered to have a child. I am a good mother and what I did was simply to correct my own child. The same way…

Parents ordered not to shout at children’s football matches to take pressure off kids

Rowdy parents are being banned from shouting out at children’s football matches this weekend in a bid to take pressure off youngsters and quell violent incidents. Mums and dads have been issued with a code of conduct to adhere to…

If you Spare the rod, you spoil the Child -Viola Okolie

How do you “train” a one year old? How do you even train any child regardless of age, especially when training is viewed from the Nigerian perspective of “half kill the child, and they’ll know better than to go down…

3,200 Autistic children benefit from GTbank’s Autism Awareness – Goddey Odin

3,200 Nigerian children with Autism Spectrum Disorders have benefited from the GTbank’s free one-on-one consultation services and special programme, the bank said on Tuesday. This was revealed in Lagos at the 8th Annual Autism programme of the bank which ran from 17th to…

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