AUTHOR/WRITER: OSA There was nothing extra ordinary about how I met her. It was on the most ordinary day, under the most ordinary circumstances. We had exchanged names after meeting at a mutual friend’s party and barely spoke the rest of the evening. The last ordinary thing I remember about her was her being shy after
AUTHOR/WRITER: Faysal Biobaku I’ve got a skip in my step, my hearts racing, my palms are sweaty, I’m nervous but yet I’m happy. I finally get to meet her again, it’s been weeks since I last saw her but It feels like it was only yesterday. The tension has been building up between us but
AUTHOR/WRITER: TERIBA NIMOTA. I I grew up living with my step mother, life with her wasn’t smooth. It is true what the Yorubas say “Oju oloju o le da bi o ju eni”. I couldn’t wish for death while living with her, because I was of the belive that she would change. She did change,
POET/WRITER: FAYSAL BIOBAKU Someday I feel like I can take on the whole world and Someday I feel like what I’ve got isn’t enough and I’m going to end up alone. Wondering where I went wrong. Perhaps on the street begging for change or in a one (1)bed room apartment with a wife and children
AUTHOR/WRITER: TERIBA NIMOTA. I EPISODE ONE Whenever it’s this time of the year, I do not go out neither do I do anything, it’s all about my mom. My eyes are filled with pool of tears , it seems like the earth is crushing under my feet this time around. My heart filled with pains
AUTHOR/WRITER: TERIBA NIMOTA. I My people, I don’t know if it’s a crime to be in love but I swear I don’t think some people deserved to be loved. I was on my own before this man Kenneth came my way. If I’d known he was going to be this way I wouldn’t have given
AUTHOR/WRITER: TERIBA NIMOTA. I I’ve always had my eyes on my family friend Sam, but he wouldn’t even look at me because to him I’m just a girl. That has been his thoughts since I was little. You all would think I’m crazy right? But I’m not. Young girls can fall in love too but
SOURCE: UNKOWN With gay marriage now legal nationwide, many (like William Baude in the New York Times) are now wondering if legalized polygamy may be next, and some (like Fredrik Deboer in Politico) are suggesting that it should be. Should it? As Baude points out in his op-ed, polygamy should remain illegal because it would
Holding grudges will consume emotional energy… if we let it. I think some young women and some men also have learned how to take things very personally. This results to holding grudges. The behavior is learned and probably they were taught this behavior by their parents. Holding grudges uses lots of emotional
AUTHOR/WRITER: SULEIMAN Hmmm, just before writing this, two things came to my mind; like seriously am I ready to share this ordeal? Secondly, will it convince her to have a rethink or harden her more? well, lemme just write and have fun jare… 2012 was the year when I was posted to Lagos for NYSC,
I am Teriba Nimota Ideraoluwa, I was born in Ogun state, into a family of eight, I'm the second child of the family and the first female child. Anike is a name my mum calls me whenever I'm sad , Anike is my Oriki (praise name). continue here...