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Adulthood
First off! Merry Christmas to you! It’s a season of love, a time to give and receive love and also spending time with your loved ones. My daily routine these past days has been cook, eat and sleep. Gosh! I love Christmas. Come to think of it, this adulthood is not easy o.While growing up,…
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Standing Out
In Nigerian Universities, writing your final exam is a big deal. Final year students wear white T-shirts on the day for people to append their signatures and nicknames before heading to the examination hall. After the examination, you’re then treated to series of beatings and decorations with water (sometimes dirty water; some got from stagnant…
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Starting Over
Writing is a skill I’m trying to get very good at. I love stories, whether to read, write or even talk about them. And like I always say, everyone has stories to tell and here I am telling mine.
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Angels and Demons
It was my birthday and I had to go to my place of primary assignment otherwise known as PPA which is a school. I had told the students they would be having a test that day. I got to the school and on my way to the staff room assigned to corp members, I met…
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Pepper Dem Gang!
There’s this general belief that Yoruba people love eating pepper and whatever food they cook contains so much pepper. This is true and as an Igbo girl with a Yoruba mother, I know this. I personally do not have an issue with pepper. I particularly love hot and spicy foods. I even enjoy peppery food…
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Nysc is a ?
In the beginning, when you were first given the uniform, there’s this pride that one exhibits, it is a sign of achievement as you’ve made it through your very long education in the university all thanks to the various strikes internal and ASUU strikes and younger ones who see you on your khaki uniform look…
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Jealous much?
There’s this popular saying that girls naturally have beef for each other or better put are usually competitive and jealous of themselves. And, this still baffles me because it’s totally not normal. A few years ago, I was listening to my role model Tosin Bucknor on the radio, she’s late now( may her beautiful soul…
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Pedestrian Walkway
Up North here (Minna), even the pedestrian walk way is also used by drivers. Motorcycles, tricycles, cars; all of them drive on that side of the road. If you think you can get angry and form rights, you’ll be amazed that the drivers too are angry and you can’t even say anything cuz they’d have…
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Savage Kings and Queens
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit It’s so easy to lose oneself in this era where savagery is the norm. You’re deemed cool if you have good and fast comebacks. And when you are brought up in a home where abuses and hurtful words are frowned at, you tend to struggle with being fast…
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The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton It’s so hot here you always wish for rain to fall, but rain falling here in Minna means there’d be no electricity for that day and sometimes the next day. So, when it’s about to rain we start…
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