In 2014, Irene N. moved to Kenya for work and spent the next seven years there. But in 2021, she took an opportunity to return home. What drove her decision to stay at a time people were leaving in droves? How does she feel about this move now? She talks all about it here.

"If you can't relate to anything in this article, you don't know what God has done for you."

Travelling with a Nigerian passport is not the easiest thing. However, a couple of countries across the world allow Nigerians to visit without a visa. Find some of them here: Travelling with a Nigerian passport is quite a task. With the Nigerian passport ranking 101 out of 199 countries, there are not many visa-free countries […]

During a random conversation with a friend, Sierra*, a few weeks ago, she mentioned that her mum passed several years ago and that she has never met her dad. I couldn’t stop thinking about the story the whole evening. On the following day, I hit her up to ask if she would be open to […]

As told to Toheeb. Last year, I thought it might be interesting to talk to a student cultist for Aluta and Chill, the flagship series I was writing at the time. I put the word out, but it was futile. I was about to give up my search when a friend told me there was […]

Nigerian parents have a really weird parenting process. Sometimes, they are so chill that you actually get along with them, but at other times, they do things that make you wonder if they are keeping your true parentage a secret from you. If you grew up in a Nigerian home and have wondered if the […]

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Using bank apps to process transactions is literally the best thing ever until it isn’t. These are some of the times you wished you banked the old-fashioned way. 1. When you send money to a wrong account You will be thinking that you’ve done a good deed by sending someone money, even if you’re only […]

Here we are again with another task no one put us to. If anything in this post sounds like you, you can count this as a heads-up. We’ve done our part. 1. Turned Aso-Ebi into an outrageous money-making venture How can you ask your friends to pay 50k when you bought it for 20k? 2. […]

You can’t tell me anything — everyone who grew up in Nigeria heard these things or variations of them growing up. It would have been great if we had everything it took to retort and have the last word. Don’t get me wrong, the situation won’t probably end as a complete win, but it would […]