People advise us to forgive a person who has wronged us. The person could even beg for forgiveness. It is almost as though we are doing...
To seek validation with intention, we must consider emotional proximity. We have to examine our different relationships and understand how much they mean to us. In...
It is important that we do not delegate the responsibility of our happiness to factors outside us. Happiness that emanates from within is harder to lose...
Are you being around stressful family members because you are scared of what they would say if you stay away from them? Are you still at...
While filling out forms, we see “Gender,” and beside it, two boxes with “Male” and “Female.” In regular conversations, some of us refer to gender in...
Life should not be stressful. It should be challenging, because that way we learn, evolve, and become the refined, best versions of ourselves. Individually, we should...
If God is perfect; it only makes sense that everything from God should be perfect. The actual sin is trying to fix perfection. *** Spirituality is...
Mind your business” is a brilliant advice! *** Poking our nose in other people’s business, I daresay, is an inherent trait in us. It is the...
On December 15th, 2018, Damilola Marcus led the Market March Organisation to Yaba Market in a bid to protest the way male traders and touts harass...
“Take care of yourself” is a common sentence most of us have heard, and even told others, as a parting shot. However, how many of us...
Selfish (adj.) (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure. When we genuinely love...
What would you do when your dream suddenly takes on morbid, “abominable” elements to morph into a dreary nightmare? In “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”, a...
Unsuspecting ʌnsəˈspɛktɪŋ/ (Of a person or animal) not aware of the presence of danger; feeling no suspicion. Synonyms: unwitting, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, heedless, unmindful. On Twitter,...
Originally, “Slay Queen” meant a woman doing amazing in life. A woman who is slaying. Remember Beyoncé’s “Formation”? She repeatedly sang “I slay, I slay!” There...
Because I hardly watch television, I could not watch much of this year’s Big Brother Naija. Besides learning the names of the contestant, I saw that...
(This is a continuation from my last post.) A sizable number of the population scream “14 years!”, despite not understanding the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of...
Once upon a time, a very close friend and I were at a live show Somewhere-On-Lagos-Island. A woman was performing with a band, singing her heart...
According to Collins dictionary, Chivalry has different definitions. It is the polite, kind, and unselfish behaviour, especially by men towards women. In the Middle Ages, chivalry...
Menelaos Apostolou in his “ground-breaking” “magnum opus” declared that female queerness is an evolutionary trait. “A lot of men indicate a desire to have a partner...
Sometime last year, I was talking with two of my male colleagues about how men are susceptible to rape. “Men can’t be raped,” one of them...
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