There is something interesting about the way we define beauty.... When someone asks us to describe the most beautiful thing we've ever seen, our minds often travel to big places and extraordinary experiences..

The first time Samuel won a bet, he bought his mother a new wrapper.... It wasn't an expensive one, just a beautiful Ankara fabric he had seen at the market but the way Mama Esther held it against her

Society doesn't expect women to be strong, it expects women to be strong all the time..... And those two things are not the same. Women do need support, you see I watched my mom take care of all of us

Imagine someone breaks into your house while you are sleeping... They steal the money you have been saving for months, destroy some of your belongings and leave you feeling unsafe in the very place where

When I hear people talk about spring, summer, autumn and winter I wonder what it feels like to live in a place where the year comes with four different seasons because Here in Nigeria, especially where

Imagine scrolling through Facebook one evening when you come across a picture of a young person lying in a hospital bed... The caption says he needs an urgent operation, and his family has been able to

Let me ask something.... Imagine you haven't eaten properly in two days...Things are hard, your account balance is not smiling at you and you honestly don't know where the next meal is coming from... Then

The first time I heard my dead father calling my name, I did exactly what any sensible man would do... I covered my head with a blanket and pretended I was still a child... My father had been dead for

There is one thing I have come to understand about scammers.... they don't always look suspicious.. Sometimes, they speak politely, other times they sound more professional than the actual people you are

Have you ever looked at your life and asked yourself, “What exactly am I doing here?”.... I have asked myself this question more times than I can remember. Sometimes, it happens when I'm alone with my

There is something about the last few months of the year that makes people start behaving differently to the extent that even before December arrives, you can already feel the change. Somebody is talking

I noticed something about power.... Sometimes, you don't really know the kind of person someone is until they get a little authority over you.. Give someone a title, a position, money, or even the smallest

Let me be honest.. If the Ladies of Hive community ever organised a lavish masquerade meetup, I wouldn't want to enter that place looking like somebody who came to collect food and disappear. If I'm attending

Let me start with a very Nigerian question... If someone tells you, “Your student loan has been completely cancelled,” will you ask how it was cancelled, or will you just shout, “Thank God!”? Honestly,

Every morning at exactly 6:15, Mama Adaeze stood by the window and watched the road. Nobody knew why. She lived alone in the old yellow house at the end of Odu Street, the one with the rusted gate and

I think most of us have that one voice in our head that has something to say about almost everything, I definitely do and honestly, sometimes I wish I could tell it to just keep quiet for five minutes...

If I throw a pure water sachet on the road in Nigeria, somebody can shout, “Oga! Pick that thing!" And honestly, they should. We complain about dirty streets, blocked drainage, flooding and plastic

When I saw this movie, honestly I was expecting just one thing... Sharks. Big sharks. Scary sharks... People making terrible decisions while sharks circle them and thankfully, the movie actually gives

Honestly, if you're coming into this movie expecting a complicated Oscar-level story, you might want to lower those expectations immediately.... But if you're here because you want to watch Scott Adkins

The internet is a very strange place... A person can wake up one morning as a normal human being, go online, make one terrible decision, say something stupid, or do something genuinely harmful, and by