13 Things They Don’t Tell You About Working in Customer Service

For the most part, working in Customer care is: 1. Having waves of malicious mouth odour wash over you by 9.15am when you are premenstrual and nauseous and want to lie down. Oh, and you have to smile through this biological attack and wait until the source is safely out of view before dousing yourself …

Mistress in Distress

                                                       02/02/2016 Seun checked the wall clock for the umpteenth time. 9:00pm. This was really disturbing. She picked up her phone and dialled his number. Again. No answer. Again. She was pacing around the living room now, walking off her worry. He was supposed to have come home by 7:30, 8pm at the very latest. …

Calming my Restless Heart, or Something Similar

Towards the end of June this year, being of troubled mind and weary body, I decided to take a trip home to draw strength from the soil in which my umbilical cord is buried, so to speak. And so I set off home. For those who don't know, "home" for me is Jos; since it …

Pepper

It was years ago when I realized I probably wouldn’t do very well in the “landing men who take me seriously” department. The year was maybe 2006, I was still mop-skinny; thin body, big head. To make things worse I actually had on this weave at that time which had been put together by a …

Dear BFF

The stereotype is that all married women have to watch their single friends for fear they'll try to snatch their husbands. The belief is that us single girls are mortally envious of the "luck" our married friends have,  and will do anything to make that luck ours.  In actual fact, mami, I'm the one pulling …