Culture Shock
Life
The first time I experienced culture shock , I was 8 years old and yes my memory is fantastic .  I had travelled home to Otukpo for Christmas with my family. Now if you’re Nigerian you know what this means. For those who know not, a lot of us live …
My Maid of Honour
Marriage
In my previous blog I was simply going to blog about planning a wedding but somehow ended up blogging about my grieving process you can read it here. Choosing a chief brides maid (maid of honour) was one of the most stressful parts of my wedding.  I had always known …
Were You Raised Right or Do you Assume You Were?
Life
“My mother is the best cook in the world. Her….'{insert choice dish}’…. is the best in the Nigeria”. Almost everyone I have ever met, has that stoic belief that their Mom/Dad is best at one thing or the other, which I think is fabulous. I mean, Nigerians love to hate …
Murder Plans
Life
Are we capable of committing murder? Under the right amount of pressure would you actually think of killing another human being? I have been tested in this regard and whether or not I passed is left to the reader to decide. I had these two guys as neighbours when I was in university …
Contaminated Bread
Daddy Series
There comes a time in everybody’s life where you have to grow up and I had been dying to grow up for a long time. My older sisters where already in boarding school and the stories made it sound super interesting plus, I could not wait to have provision and …
Me and Money
School
The first time I experienced and understood what it meant to lack financially, I was in secondary school; JSS1 to be precise and unfortunately for me it wasn’t a case of me seeing someone else lack and being shocked by it (that would have been a better introduction), but even that …
Monday Blues
Memoirs
Some Mondays are created to remind you why you hated school in the first place and why you were supposed to be Dangotes’ Daughter so that you would not work a day in your life. My point being every single assignment you didn’t do over the weekend and all the …