For our #BellaNaijaMCM and #BellaNaijaWCW features this week, we celebrate the Nigerian youth, the men and women who for five days in a row, having taken...
Raising startup capital can be a gut-wrenching process for any entrepreneur. On one hand, it is validation that you are on to something and that capital...
How is it that the Nigerian police has failed to understand the youth and is now failing the #EndSARS movement as well? How ironic, the audacity...
The 10th of October, 2020, was the first time I had ever joined a mass protest. It was important to me that I joined the hundreds of...
The protests of young Nigerians have yielded some results: the Nigerian Police has announced that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is being dissolved. The Inspector General of...
The last known photos of Jimoh Isiaq of Ogiri Compound, Ita Alasa, Ogbomoso, show him standing in shorts and a sweatshirt, palm slippers, watching #EndSARS protesters from...
A long time ago in the late ‘90s, a teenage me sat beside my dad in his Benz 230 wagon, sweating it out on a long queue...
She was going to interview the renowned writer, Chinua Achebe, but it appeared that her interviewee was skeptical about her stance as a journalist who sings. So...
16-year-old Tina Ezekwe is maybe the most recent to make the headlines. A policeman trying to arrest a bus driver who had broken the lockdown curfew shot...
If there ever was a time for our voices to be heard collectively, it is now. Now that we are united against a common enemy –...
Every year the Big Brother Naija reality rolls around, and every year you see older Nigerians bemoaning the youths, complaining that rather than stand for something,...
You probably already know that Nigerians showed up en masse to the streets on Thursday, October 8, to protest the extrajudicial killings and assault by the Special Anti-Robbery...
New work from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is coming! As part of the Amazon Original Stories, Chimamanda’s “Zikora,” a 35-page short story, will be published on Tuesday, the...
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy divides human needs into three broad categories. The basic needs category highlights safety and physiological needs such as food, water, and rest. The...
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...
“How is your heart?” Very strange question, right? Certainly not the best conversation starter by any chance. However, this was the question a very close friend...
Sometime during 2019’s notorious Detty December, I went on a night out for my girlfriend’s birthday. It was a long night and I made my way...
Many things have been happening on Twitter lately, from the #EndSARS movement to Lil Frosh allegedly beating up his babe to Room 306. If you don’t know the...
With barely three months left of 2020, the year 2021 is fast approaching, and a lot of ‘how-tos’ will begin to surface. I am pro planning...
An experience that very well sets the tone for this piece is one I had with a man who has lived through the crests and...
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