Gomez is lying on the floor, curled like a foetus. His head placed on Bisola’s lap as she kneads her palm into his temples. Someone else...
The telephone rings and you pick it up. It is Owolabi , communications director for Mex investment bank. “Ms Ogbeche, good evening, I hear you have...
Despite the bitter residue from past relationships, I am yet to subscribe to the mantra “All men are cheats so just get used to it”. For...
In a recent magazine interview, I was asked what spirituality meant to me. My answer “Spirituality for me is an awareness of deeper values and meanings....
“Aww she looks so beautiful” she says, the stench of coffee and cigarettes escaping her breath clutters my nostrils. The other lady, less than a couple...
I have recently developed a crush on a man twice my age. Aside from a couple of friends who have been praying fervently and at all costs,...
“Babes please call me back, I have jist for you”. That was what the text read. I had no particular interest to respond. It was Chinwe...
Seun Anikulapko Kuti once said to me, that giving with cameras is not giving. It is PR. He said “You don’t have to call a press...
It’s award season again. The Golden Globes has just passed, the Oscar nominees have been announced and soon the festivals will start to do their rounds....
It is being thrown out flippantly that Nigerian graduates are unemployable, and the reported 75% failure rate of the 2010 NECO exams doesn’t do much to...
In every mile radius in the City of Lagos, a church exists. For most of these churches, there are plans to sprawl into more concaves in...
I hate the smell of mackerel fish. Not because of its pungent odour but because it reminds me of our days being broke. For a little...
Sitting outside his front yard, choking from the air saturated with generator exhaust fumes and itchy legs from sand fly bites. It was night, the moon...
It’s not enough to sit and pray for comfort and healing. It’s not enough to hope that it will get better.
Lagos is obsessed with success and success stories. It’s the reason why the word “Hammer” erodes every sentence. The disconcerting part of it is that it...
I had started avoiding conversations with some people. It is that bad that I don’t pick up the phone. Everybody here is simply obsessed with marriage....
Nigeria has become a new hotbed for young gunslingers in the world of the literati. It seems this year, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani has emerged it reigning...
It’s often difficult admitting that life can be a bit lonely sometimes. It’s all going great, career, side hustle, finance, and the prospects of living the...
The 2010 edition of the Future Awards was the best yet. At the awards ceremony, it was a double whammy for Ifeyinwa Aniebo, the young malaria...
A friend once told me I had become famous for my woes. My brothers had started teasing me. They said “Wana, can’t you find something else...
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