Everyone expected much more from the year 2020. Recently, I came across a video showing a montage of different pastors at the end of 2019 prophesying...
I cannot forget that evening in October when a dear friend rushed into the room to show me the video of DJ Switch (Obianuju Catherine Udeh)...
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better” – Dalai Lama. A new year provides us the opportunity of renewed hope and the need for us to...
On a night like this when the moon sits full in the sky, illuminating the already lit city, we are but estranged from the coolness the...
The typical foundation of New Year’s resolutions is change: lose weight, read more, cut fake friends off, get a promotion, start your side business, meditate daily,...
When we launched ourselves into 2020, I was full of ambitious plans and high expectations, but little did I know that 2020 would turn out to...
If I ever planned for any year, it was 2020. You can imagine my disappointment when things went awry. I heard “2020 is cancelled” chants a...
Welcome to the year 2021! It is my hope that this new year brings in the best for us all. 2020 has been one troubling and...
2020 has been a year! All of us made our way into it with different goals and aspirations, sure it was going to go just as we planned....
I speak so fast when I’m nervous to the point where it can become difficult for people to understand me. I was very nervous the first...
2020 was a year that kept people apart in many ways — borders were closed, hotels, airports, and businesses were shut down, schools and economic activities...
For our #BellaNaijaWCW feature this week, we celebrate Samira Isah Modibbo, a women and girls education and empowerment advocate and human rights activist who’s the founder...
There is a subtle shift in modern Nollywood romantic comedy from family to work. Well, maybe it’s not a shift but an expansion. For many years,...
“Do you have anyone?” I mused over her question. It wasn’t the first time I had been asked the same thing, it was a recurring question...
Often, I think about a line from a piece by the Nigerian author, Tola Rotimi: “Families are everybody’s first war.” Recently, I had cause to remember that...
For our #BellaNaijaMCM feature this week, we celebrate and shine the spotlight on Dr. Debo Odulana, the founder of Doctoora Health, a patient-centered healthcare platform that...
The word ‘philanthropy’ stirs up thoughts of ‘affluence’, but philanthropy takes on many forms: it is our individual response to human needs, it is about caring...
A secondary school classmate of mine got married recently, and while I was chatting with a friend of mine who also attended Shagamu the day after...
The Christmas holiday is here and yet it still feels like we are in the middle of the year. The holiday shopping season was nothing to...
It’s Christmas… and it’s that time of the year when we’re supposed to just spread good tidings and love! 2020 has been a long year but...
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