The first time I broke a plate, I broke a full cooler of them. The crashing sound of their fall made my head ring like a cymbal, or an old alarm clock…
The high maternal mortality rate in Nigeria has been linked to a number of things. From lack of education to age and socioeconomic status of the mother. The poverty level is also…
It is almost New Year’s Eve again. At every year’s end, we make dazzling new decisions for the new year. Tell me, what happened to your last year’s resolutions? How many of…
Nostalgia, I play with that word in my head. These days I wonder so much in my mind that I find it unnecessary to leave my apartment. Preferring to stay indoors mulling…
“Bimpe! Tope! Funke!” my aunt’s voice pierced through the nightmarish haze in my mind. For the first time in three days, I was grateful to her for screaming this early in the…
Cooking has a way of bringing people together. Food, particularly good food has a way of making people happy and putting people in a festive mood. But it is the holiday! Everyone…
Would it interest you to know that the glow you have always craved is very possible with just a few kitchen spices and Aloe vera? Even though organic and homemade beauty products…
“We can’t get to the bottom of this issue until you tell us the whole story,” the policeman said. I looked from Ephraim to my mother, he lowered his eyes but my…
Jide walked down the street to the Cafe for some coffee. Another man would perhaps have gone for a drink and a long smoke but Jide didn’t drink and neither did he…
Based on a true life story. When I married Arinze we had nothing. Two fresh graduates from Unilag coming together to build something. In the beginning we were so poor we could…