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I very well how I once told myself that “My kids will never go through this things.” I just returned from fetching water with a jerrycan, my neck was crying and my body was shivering, the slippers I had

Well, it does sound like the idea of a gap year is a luxury, one that can't be afforded by just anybody. That was my thought though, I thought it was meant for just rich people or the unserious type. Not

It was very early in the morning, and I was just folding my clothes and wrappers scattered on the small chair in my room when my last born, Tolu, walked in and from nowhere he dropped a question. I don't

Well, we've all suffered in school, but if you haven't experienced or never stayed in a school area with no light for over three years, my dear, you didn't suffer. Well, throughout my stay in school, I

I was never taught in school to believe in myself, I was never taught nor did I learn it from school, that when everything around me keep saying otherwise I shouldn't give in. Life taught me that in the

Everyone knew uncle Felix, well, not that he was our real uncle, but here in Nigeria, that title is free and for you as long as you are old, but uncle Felix was more, he was nosy, loud and he was nutty

Anytime I think about culture, what I think of is home. I think of those early morning greetings, I think of the way we talk, I think of the way we respond, and I think of how that each and every of our

Have you come across children who ask certain questions and you pause to really look who it was that talked. Well, here's Tife, a four years old girl, who happens to be a pro in whatever she does one.

I have always been a lover of clean space, that was how I was brought up, and even though I see my mums shouting and all as her punishing me, it does help. Well, my cleanliness is not the perfect type

There was this time in my life, then, I so much believe my mother hatred me, and I ain't even joking. I call and see it as hatred. Every Saturday morning, at exactly 5:30am, she would just fling the door

Well, the only thing I had on me was money for Just one bus ticket, nothing more, nothing less. I don't even have anything on me to buy snacks on my way or even buy something along for them at home. I

So, I have days that I just sit and wonder, just like today, I was just wondering and I decided to put my thought down in words. I was wondering if it's possible my us to get it right in Nigeria. This

There's this particular day I was traveling, I had to take a danfo bus to get to the park where I would board a bus going to my destination, on boarding the danfo, the conductor started shouting

There was this time in my life where when I rest, I feel guilty. Even though my body needed it and was pleading for it, I’d still push through, do some tasks, go hard on myself, go out to hustle, respond

There was a time I thought evolution was just about humans coming from either monkeys or apes, well that was what we were told, there was atim I even asked my uncle if those monkeys in the zoo will someday

Well, I never knew my period would come, no, let's just say, I never knew have started my period, this was my first time, tis is my first experience of it, I just felt some warmness on the chair I was

I could vividly remember the day I got angry because my mum didn't want me to take a vaccination. According to her, “Don’t take that thing o, you won't be able to think for yourself again, they just want

You see that individual or being who stipulated 24 hours as a day, that peron did not do well at all, he/she didn't consider people like me😁. People like me who starts their day with their phone in hand

Well, all my aim was just to deliver food, I can swear with anything, but well...it just turned out the way it did. It was still in the morning, I was busy arranging things at the event center, the day

There was a time I used to think life had something personal against me, I see people experience ease with a good and soft life, but it do seems like I was absent when He(God)was dishing all of that out