In a surprising admission, Tony Mwaba Kazadi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, acknowledged having an unplanned pregnancy with Aminata Namasia. Yet he said it was an accident at work. In spite of…
Welcome to cutting season — Gbubemi Atimomo
Musings on re-examining and severing relationships Early last year, I found myself embroiled in a situation between two erstwhile friends. Before that time, I was unaware that the two friends had not spoken to themselves in a long while. As…
Relationships: Where have all the good guys/girls gone? —Tara Aisida
If there is something that amazes me nowadays it’s how complex relationships have become. On a weekly basis, someone comes up with the statement of how ladies or men should act in relationships. Sometime back, the raging war was whether…
Relationships will hurt and heal us-Tara Aisida
I was listening to a sermon on emotional health recently and the preacher made the statement that although our greatest hurts will come as a result of the relationships we have with others, we will also heal in the context…
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…
2022 advice: Choose your battles wisely-Tara Aisida
Some few weeks back the story of a man who took his intended wife home to meet his mother for the first time was the most discussed story on social media. Apparently, the man had asked her not to wear…
Musing on life, love, sex and relationships-Tara Aisida
Life is for the living It was Barry and Glodean White that uttered the line “Life is for the living and love is for the giving” in the song “Didn’t we make it happen Baby” in their hugely successful album …
What’s this thing called love, sef? Tara Aisida
My friend was telling me about a series she is watching and in one of them two people meet themselves in a train and immediately the sparks flew. They knew they were meant to be and to prove it they…
This is not The Gods are not to Blame, but I killed my mother and married my father!
Some stories are weird and leave a bad taste in your mouth, mine is. I grew up an adopted child. I had known since I was a lot younger that the person I called Mummy was not my real mother…
I did not fall because I have one leg; I fell because I trusted him
I was born normal as in my two legs were perfect but I became paralyzed when at 9 months, my mother was said to have taken me for polio injection. The injection paralyzed my left leg; my mother must have…