“What happened to me was traumatic….” “It was incest from my most trusted and most loved uncle who I had loved all my life…I couldn’t tell...
I stifled the first yawn as I felt it push its way up from the pits of my belly. After a quick dart around to see...
I have just turned 25, and for everyone familiar with Nigerians, you know that this is the age everyone begins to talk to you about marriage....
Don’t you just hate people who can’t kiss? It’s a hot mess really! Okay, let’s dial this back a few rounds. You meet this super delicious...
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The Nigerian music industry today is more viable than it used to be two decades ago – though the content/message keeps getting poorer, while the artistes...
Footballer Emmanuel Adebayor and his family have been on the receiving end of a lot of questions recently as they media reported that things were not...
In the last few days I have heard people say repeatedly that whatever you don’t suffer to get you will not appreciate. Some others say if...
I am at the age where a lot of my family members (immediate and extended) are having kids or planning to have children. It is so...
It is no secret that men are intimidated by successful women. I know the kind of girls I will attempt to talk to in my Toyota...
Poverty, desperation, peer pressure or greed? What could possibly be the constituting factors responsible for the increasing rate of prostitution burrowing deep into the ivory tower...
Y!/YNaija.com, in partnership with Leading Ladies Africa project presents their list of Nigeria’s 100 Most Influential Women – #YWomen100. The team said it aims to inspire a generation...
So it’s no secret that courts in some States have been on strike and that that automatically means that some lawyers are currently experiencing the much...
I turned my head away from Temi. It took two days of deep reflection to reach this acceptance stage. But here they were, Temi and Tayo,...
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BellaNaija seeks to share more human interest stories in 2015. We want to focus a bit more on the shared experiences of our readers. Moses Obroku...
Papa dies in the middle of the night, when the noise hitting through the lusty sky agitates the windows. When I first came to work here,...
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In my little time of working with a publication house, I have come across all manners of people- some nice and some not so nice. A...
There is a virginity tradition in Yoruba land called Asa Ibile (It is no longer practiced as before). It is a virginity test where the bride...
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