Just a night before I went for my youth service posting in a strange land where the possibility of kidnapping is so high even till today, my father called me. I was still using one of these unstable network

I once heard someone say, "Children remember how you made them feel long after they forget what you punished or rewarded them for." We have this laminated chart that is still hanging very faintly ghosted

A lot of people do not have a favourite food or any food they are loyal to, and that is okay in a way. But anytime anyone ask me why I still choose beans and soft fried plantain (dodo) over over things

At exactly 4 am, the rooster crowed for the first time, as it usually does every morning of my life, and this was exactly what broke me, not the burial. It was Sunday morning, and we had buried my grandmother

Dear version of me reading this next July, While searching through my second phone a few days ago, I found a letter I wrote last year in the PDF section of the phone, though I read it after I wrote it,

I could remember while still in school, there is this final year group that our class rep created then, a WhatsApp group actually, not even an Instagram or Facebook. Then one of us posted a complaint about

To me, no good news is small or great. They all have equal magnitude in my cite. Leeme put it that way. Even though I have heard a lot of good news this month, like a family member escaping being kidnapped

On Monday morning, I was outside my compound when I got a notification on my Instagram from a friend. I opened it to check it, responded, and then clicked back to my feed. That was how I found news on

Sometime in May of this year, my response to the request of someone who i genuinely like was a NO, and then I waited. I didn't wait for the person's response. I waited for this familiar pull in my chest

Until I stopped following someone I used to follow on Instagram with over 100,000 followers, and when he called for an event to take place, he was not even able to gather up to 40 people during one of

If anything happens, all my sisters usually call me first. Not because I am the firstborn or because I have the solution more than the rest. But because I am always less worried or panicking when there

On one of my note books where I usually write some of my to-do things, I wrote my 2026 goals as far back as last December. Not on my phone note or vision board, just something I used my black biro and

During my active time on IG some time ago, I used to watch a guy who used to post funny skits. Though it was not an extraordinary thing, I just liked his sharp observation, good timing, and real situation

There is this other type of pressure that I have discovered in this country, and it has come down on people without them noticing it at all, with no pressure, and it looks voiceless, yet the presence is

There was this important conversation at one of my guy's places in Lagos about two years ago, where I had a deep and clear thought about something that we were discussing, and I chose not to voice it out.

I was in SS1 when it happened during an afternoon physics class that I was halfway prepared for because I was stressed out already. The teacher was asking some random questions about the previous class,

Last year, I cannot remember vividly exactly the month. A female friend of mine that I met in camp sent me a video when I was in camp, and in the background, clearly visible, I was seated there with one

Some time ago, in my state, I entered a private car for just a fifteen-minute drive that cost more than what some people earn in a week, and at the same time, I entered a commercial danfo with my body

This week, on Tuesday to be precise. I went out to get something in a mall when I noticed a young lady in the section where I was. She wore casual wear, no wig on her head, her natural face. No lip combos

In the past, when I started writing, I was spending some great numbers of minutes looking at my screen or the blank page in front of me before anything came. It was a comfortable stretch. But this kind