OSOGBO – From afar, the yellow and black uniform of Fauzziyah Oyebode is visible. It’s about 3 p.m. and the scorching sun exposes the speckles...
One day, I found myself walking briskly from Marina to the CMS ferry terminal. It was past 5 pm and I had just finished working at...
Suffering Olympics, it is called; the times when people exchange poverty or struggle stories, debating who amongst them suffered the most. “Ah, bros, you no suffer...
Manna For Life Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for food security and capacity building, with a vision to create a hunger-free world. Through visionary minds,...
Perhaps we are not. But how do we explain that in our country, we have money but cannot spend it?
This was not Busari's first encounter with a child beggar. Children aged 6-10 approached him three times last week, but there were no mothers present.
There's acid in your stomach, bile in your throat, anger in your heart, and war in your head. Your mind is raging with ideas like alates...
As a kid, two of my favourite snacks were Coasters and ‘Pitit’ (I cannot remember how it’s spelt). A pack of Coasters had about 8 thick,...
Get ready Yemi lovers! Afrobeats sensation Yemi Alade is hitting us with her new album “Empress” this Friday, November 20 and we are so ready for...
In this Live Session, Yemi Alade performs the Swahili version of her song “Poverty“. Watch below:
You live in your head. In the illusion of being rich. In your kitchen you have a sink, it isn’t like the one you admired the...
African pop diva Yemi Alade revisits her critically acclaimed fourth studio album “Woman of Steel“, by servicing Funke Akindele aided “Poverty” with a revamped live rendition...
On Tuesday afternoon news began to filter through that gunshots had been heard on Tarkwa Bay, the popular island that’s home to beaches along the Atlantic...
To understand privilege better, you have to realize that it is not by your work or power. Many people are born into privilege and have no...
To be poor in Nigeria is to go to sleep every night, wishing that the world would come to an end and you wouldn't have to...
Typical of the Nigerian government, they have decided that cutting off the head is the best remedy to a headache.
If a Yoruba person ever calls you, “Omoojuolari,” which literarily means “a child who has never seen wealth before,” you should feel bad. Although the word is...
We must care because all human beings have equal inherent rights to dignity that should never be diminished. It is important we recognise and respect those...
Financial hurricane blows in different direction hitting nations, individual or things, it tears nations apart and remove their self esteem and if you are not in sync...
Hello Patriarchy, the protector of men - rich and poor. As long as patriarchal systems remain firmly in place, the concept of choice is really a...
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