Women generally are familiar with body heat, it’s in our genetic makeup-hormones and the like, I guess. And when we get pregnant that heat intensifies; it’s almost as if there’ll be an implosion. I remember when I was pregnant, years…
Dear Naija man, what do you really want?
Did I hear you say sex? But is that not for guys in their twenties and thirties…ermm and their forties and fifties…add the sixties…ok, while you are at it, let’s just add seventies… but really, is that what sums up…
From one chance to fart chance
I’ve been told by a couple of my silly Ibo friends that the Yorubas fart a lot. Haba! See why I called them silly? I mean, is farting a cultural thing? Without trying to task my Biology knowledge or putting…
If your spouse is a kidnapper, will you report him?
The arrest of Chukwudi Onuamadike, the most high-profile kidnap kingpin in Nigerian crime history a few years ago, got us all talking. Several social and news platforms had images, even videos of Evans; his gang and of course, his luxurious…
A toast to my publisher Toni Kan @ 52 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The first time I set eyes on Toni Kanayo Onwordi, famously known as Toni Kan, I found fun oozing from his every pore. He blazed into the Lagos writing circle with uncommon confidence that was at once assured and very…
A fake country full of fake drugs – Peju Akande
Years back, when I was still nursing my son, I made it a point of duty to always buy his medicines at a registered pharmacy; cough syrups, multivitamins, pain relief syrups et al. Never mind the fact that there are…
My dear, run o if your partner is insecure? Peju Akande
A few year ago, Vanguard newspapers detailed the story of how a certain hairdresser, who resides somewhere in Ajangbadi area of Lagos pushed her boyfriend, a Uniben graduate out of the window of their one storey building to his death…because…
Let me tell you about the good policeman I met-Peju Akande
I had car trouble on my way back from church, one Sunday afternoon. As soon as I made the turn at Motorways to hit the Alapere express way, I felt the car shake; my first thought was, Peju you have…
Toni Kan strikes 50 with panache – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It was fun at first sight. The first time I set eyes on Toni Kanayo Onwordi, famously known as Toni Kan, I found fun oozing from his every pore. He blazed into the Lagos writing circle with uncommon confidence that…
Musings on love, life and its vicissitudes: A review of “Built for the Storm” – Peju Akande
The first impression one gets reading through the first few chapters of Bridget Oyefeso-Odusami’s book is: this is like a War Room memoir. You remember the movie, that one with the faithful and ever abiding long suffering housewife? But in…