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... Continue Reading →
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.... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
I flash back quickly to that day. We had gone on a road trip, and ended up in a little hotel in a quiet area, small city on the outskirts of a big town. The heat was doing our heads in and the constant airconditioning provided by the hotel was pure bliss. Nothing like vaseline,... Continue Reading →
Frank rushed into Ola Mummy canteen in Bodija, hungry as an abandoned baby elephant, and made his order of two wraps of pounded yam, fish and ewedu. So hungry was he that it wasn't until he'd swallowed the first wrap that his eyes came down, and he could once again see like normal humans do. It... Continue Reading →
I decided to clean out an old box of my stuff, you know, burn what I don't need and look for somewhere better to store the other things. I found a little plastic bag of photographs, and promptly dropped my good intentions. I spent almost an hour sitting right in the middle of the rubble,... Continue Reading →
Anything to make you happy. I know you mean well. Money, Your time, Your body, Your heart; A place in your life. You want to be My confidant, My lover, My protector; My hero. Anything I want, You say, You are prepared To give. But can you give The one thing I ask? Can you... Continue Reading →
