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Letty was a good girl who became a good wife but the seasons changed and this once-upon-a-time choir leader, like Lot’s wife, looked back and right before the eyes of her Pastor and in the presence of her bewildered husband, is turning into a pillar of salt. The kind of salt no one wants to […]
Continue ReadingToday I’m worried about men of God, wet matchboxes and the fire at the base of the mountains of pastors’ wives. I’m worried about pastors who leave their wives’ needs unattended in the name of doing God’s work. A pastor’s wife was caught pants down with her butt-naked brother-in-law defiling the clergyman’s marriage bed. The […]
Continue ReadingAs a young reporter in the early 90s, I grew up in the newsroom hearing the phrase ‘IBB Boys’. These were young soldiers loyal to the former Military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who ruled Nigeria between August 27, 1985 and August 26, 1993. As a directing staff (lecturer) at the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA in […]
Continue ReadingIt is rare to find all four in one husband. Sometimes you find two in one man and unless God helps the couple, that marriage is doomed. These sins hurt and scar women. The men who commit them also suffer from deep-seated issues. The children bear the scars for life, oftentimes carrying them into their […]
Continue ReadingWhether you are a runs-girl or a serious-ready-to-mingle single looking to settle down, you need an extra pair of eyes to ‘see’ the man on your case. Pastors call it a discerning spirit. It’s the ability to deeply and spiritually see beyond the fine face and six packs the man toasting you presents. Women, these […]
Continue ReadingA man with the he-goat spirit is a man who does not listen to your advice. It’s not that he does not respect you. It’s just that he respects that thing in-between his legs more. He is not deaf either, he just likes the sonorous voice of his third leg. It is sweet in his […]
Continue ReadingSome wives are not worth the titles they carry. They are women, yes. Wives? No. The right moves, acts and depth are just not there. It is either they forgot everything their mothers and clerics taught them about being a wife or they simply came up with their own codes of conduct but whatever they […]
Continue ReadingShe has come a long way. She started small, very small in fact, but life has been kind to her. She has found favour with God and man. Today, the young awkward marketing executive is the Chief Operating Officer of a multi-million naira concern. She has men, her father’s age, calling her Madam and women, […]
Continue ReadingSoldiers are special beings. The things they do are not for lilly-livered people. The stuff they signed up for are deep and deadly. The danger they are exposed to just to keep us safe are difficult sometimes to explain. As a mother, I don’t even know how their mothers cope. For instance, how’s a mother […]
Continue ReadingYou are 33 and not doing badly. You are comfortable and beautiful but your love of easy money has blurred your childhood vision of a cozy happy home with children and a husband who loves you to bits. Your once vivid dream of falling in love and marrying early to raise four children, while nurturing […]
Continue ReadingHusbands can and do defect because defection is a two-way street. If wives can defect, so can husbands. If a woman doesn’t get too old for touching and pampering, a man is also entitled to warmth, kisses and cuddles. A bull is always a bull. His charging power may reduce but charge he must. He […]
Continue ReadingYou know our forebears had traditional antidotes to infidelity? Yes, they did. They had things they said, did and believed would protect the marriage institution, and those things worked. It does not matter what you think of their antidotes. The fact is, today, whatever we are doing is neither working for marriages nor stopping infidelity […]
Continue ReadingIt is not every marriage that is founded on love, and not every married person who married for love. Don’t tell me you don’t know a few people who took their vows based on what they could see, rather than what they felt. They stood, all dressed up in front of their pastor, bishop or […]
Continue ReadingOne man, three, four wives, and a strong home, a marriage that lasted till the end of their lives. How did our grandmothers, and great-grandmothers do it? How did they cope with the sleep roasters, sharing their men’s affection, attention and bodies? Didn’t they ever get jealous, feel betrayed when the men they love bring […]
Continue ReadingShe is many things to many people, different people, depending on where you are standing. In the late 80s and early 90s, to me, and many fashion and style reporters, Folorunsho Alakija was our reference point, the must-get interview. We wanted her voice on our fashion pages and the photographs of her designs definitely lifted […]
Continue ReadingWhen a man is done with a relationship, he’s done. He may not look like he’s even lacing up his boots, yet he might have left you weeks ago. So, a girl needs to know how to read the signs and what to do. Unlike women who are sentimental about such stuff calling it quits […]
Continue ReadingEven men who boast that they don’t believe its existence don’t want to taste it. It is one of those things in our local pharmacology that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is yet to figure out. It is a branch of science that is strictly ours. The manufacturers do not have registered names, addresses or […]
Continue ReadingMe: When will you stop this nonsense? Thug: Which of the nonsenses? Me: So you agree that you are involved in all kinds of shenanigans? Thug: The fact that something does not make sense to you does not make it nonsense. What I’m doing makes a lot of sense to me. I’ll suggest you mind […]
Continue ReadingThe threat and trepidation that preceded February 23 polls are gone. Those who want to fret about March 9th are welcome to whatever size of stress they feel entitled to. Elections come and go. The taste they leave in our national growth is what it is, a taste left behind. We are a people who do […]
Continue ReadingThere is tension everywhere. Those who are not angry at the location of a certain bullion van are cursing those who burnt their votes. Those who voted in peace are wondering how military-kind-of-arms surfaced on the streets on Election Day. I felt it would not be savoury or nice to burden you with any violent conversation […]
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