Like many kids, I had a long pile of books sitting atop one another in a corner of my room. Save for a few exceptions, the...
I was scrolling through Twitter one evening when I saw an advertisement for a vacant house. It was called a studio apartment. The room had a...
Since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry‘s interview with Oprah Winfrey was released on Sunday on CBS, there have been lots of debates on whether the former...
The love of God is illimitable, still, many times, we often feel like God is far away and this love he has for us is beyond...
As a kid, two of my favourite snacks were Coasters and ‘Pitit’ (I cannot remember how it’s spelt). A pack of Coasters had about 8 thick,...
I sat in the bus one evening as we snailed through Ikeja Underbridge, pressing my body to the edge of the bus in a bid to...
Years ago, while reading through a page created to be a safe space where married people can let out their frustrations and get possible solutions to...
My friend is looking for the killer who murdered her friend. Last year, he was a bubbly man with a beautiful family of 5. Today, he...
“How softly the rain fell that Monday morning when my water broke. Because I was used to the raging downpours of Lagos, this quiet patter...
In many African homes, sex is often talked about in hushed voices and the intricacies of it are hardly ever discussed. Many women grew up hearing...
“What’s the purpose of liberation when we can’t have a peaceful transition, freedom fighters become dictators” – Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, AKA Bobi Wine. When you ruminate over...
Nicholas Kristof‘s essay in the New York Times tells the story of 4-year-old Abdo Sayid who, eerily calm, apathetic and expressionless, dies of starvation in Yemen. In...
For many of us in Nigeria, we live and exist as statistics; no one sees us and we do not see other people outside our immediate...
On December 20, in a video that went viral on social media, Deborah Okezie, the mother of an 11-year-old JSS1 student of Deeper Life High School,...
In 2018, in a now-deleted tweet, an excited 21-year-old Naomi announced her acceptance into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) competitive internship programme. “Everyone shut the...
Through the years, I have grown to expect less and less from our elected government officials, but there are certain things they do that still leave...
Rachel had enjoyed masturbating since she was a teenager. In her book excerpt, she shared how the curiosity to discover the meaning of the word orgasm...
Breathing, blinking, yawning, walking, grabbing items as we move, talking — things are conventional for many of us; we do not think too much of them,...
On the 23rd of April, 2020, 17-year-old Favour was returning from work when 28-year-old Godday Robinson allegedly waylaid and raped her. In the process, he repeatedly slammed her...
For many young people, determining what to do with their lives can be a very daunting task. From choosing what career path to take, to what...
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