The bathroom is a very powerful part of the house. It is where the pressed find release; where the soiled find cleansing; where the stressed find...
Coming out of a long relationship and being single again can be really tough whether you are the one who instigated the breakup or the one...
This was what I grew up observing in Nigeria – the stereotypes of gender roles, the belief that it is only a woman that can nurse...
Do you ever look back at your childhood and wish that you had been given at least some basic lessons about money? Perhaps many of the...
At a small gathering several years ago, I was carrying a friend’s five month old baby when another friend walked up to me and asked to...
Aunty Bella is our agony aunt column on BellaNaija. We launched this column in the early days of BN and periodically feature issues sent in by BN readers....
There were five of us in the car journeying down a long road around West Oxford. I am not sure how the conversation started, but being...
We are in the 21st century and it is shocking that activists, advocates and development agencies still continue to agitate for citizens access to the internet....
Last week, I wrote about resistance and why we must understand that it is an important force in Physics, as well as life in general. There...
Punt aan the lijn is Dutch for full stop! On a recent trip, a group of us stayed briefly with a Dutch family, amidst banter and...
Apart from bringing the world to our fingertips, a Smartphone is also a medium of entertainment and one of the ways it does this is through...
Cheers to a new week BellaNaijarians! Here’s wishing you a prosperous day and week. Go ahead, smash those goals and return with the positive results. We...
I repeat: I am not you. From the middle of last year to early this year, a raft of my peers began to express disappointment with...
Hi guys, BN Confession Box is a new feature on BellaNaija – curated by Nkem Ndem. The Confession Box is our virtual confessor’s box where BellaNaijarians can let loose and say...
What’s the angle when exes decide to bestie up? Maturity has been trashed and misinterpreted in several ways, which I myself cannot comprehend. It’s kind of...
Aunty Bella is our agony aunt column on BellaNaija. We launched this column in the early days of BN and periodically feature issues sent in by BN readers....
There is no denying the fact that in Nigeria – a society organised on patriarchal lines, the title of “ the first son” comes with a...
When I was 7, my dad would package my mum, my siblings and I in his old Passat 2 days to Christmas, and we would ride...
Aunty Bella is our agony aunt column on BellaNaija. We launched this column in the early days of BN and periodically feature issues sent in by BN readers....
Our patriarchal society nudges men into hyper-masculinity. “Men are not meant to cry.” “Men should always be strong.” Most times, men experience ridicule when they show...
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