In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to South Sudan, where he took the now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated...
Although child sexual abuse is prevalent in Nigeria, it is seldom discussed. However, Nigerian actress and TV presenter, Tricia Eseigbe-Kerry, is on a mission to end...
Shakespeare’s Polonius offers the sage advice to his son Laertes in Hamlet “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and...
The recent events in the country have proven one thing beyond reasonable doubts. It is the fact that Nigerians are so gentle and our leaders can...
Omawumi’s song “Be The Best I Can Be” rings in my head anytime I think of my mother. Like Omawumi, I was also a recipient of...
Go Africa! BN is so excited to share this news. Kwasi Enin, a 17-year old Ghanaian-American has been accepted into not 2, not 4, but 8...
“About half-dozen people dead, many critically injured.” That summarizes the Nigerian Immigration Service’s recruitment event at the National Stadium, Abuja earlier this Month. But that’s old...
After listening to Ekene Onu and Aduke Gomez’s tender and moving letters to their younger selves read out at the LifeHouse event called Letters and the...
She said she was ‘only a stay at home mum’ as she avoided making eye contact with me. I felt bad all of a sudden, it...
Today is Mothering Sunday and our African celebrities have taken social media by storm with numerous tributes to their mums, wives and themselves! From Temi DollFace...
The journey to making these dishes was hilarious at best. I wanted my next post on Bella Naija to be something quite unusual but still undoubtedly...
My best friend and I decided to take a trip out of town. On the day, we got on the train and settled into a booth....
I recently saw Chief Ebenezer Obey, now known as Evangelist Ebenezer Obey, playing on stage and the title of this post struck me almost immediately. He’s...
“You aren’t married are you?” I looked up from my phone screen and shook my head. No. Up until then the conversation had been in Yoruba,...
I sincerely lay no claims to being more knowledgeable than anyone, but I do confess that I know better than I did yesterday, last year and...
One morning, a woman drove for two hours up a hill to her daughter’s house. There was something her daughter wanted her to see. As this...
Happiness is a choice. This is something I tell myself all the time; it is the one thing that keeps me going. When something overwhelmingly difficult...
Salut my BN Cuisine people… Believe it or not I am still in this Paris frame of mind and it seems we are going to be...
Move Back to Nigeria is a series on BellaNaija which aims to encourage young and not-so-young professionals in the diaspora who are trying to make the decision of...
Life is not always kind. We don’t always get what we want. Sometimes everything goes south at once: The longed-for love doesn’t show up or goes...
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