Tobi* (28) and Tare* (29) met in 2022 and started dating the next day. In this week’s Love Life, they talk about navigating his “hustling musician” lifestyle, keeping their relationship private and ignoring the many people who assume he’s playing her.

In 2021, Sharon’s (20) much older boyfriend punched Sammie (21) in the face because of her. Two months later, she’d started dating Sammie. On this week’s Love Life, they talk about getting her out of a toxic relationship, falling in love over mathematical logic and the death pact that has her friends scared of their relationship.

The 31-year-old subject of this #NairaLife tried a few things for money before realising freelance writing paid him more than his colleague’s bank jobs. He thought he’d reached his final bus stop, but that only lasted four years. Now, he’s down on his luck, sending 10 job applications weekly, and hoping that a structured job will provide him an escape.

The subject of this week’s What She Said is a 42-year-old Nigerian woman. She shares how being her parents’ least favourite child made her fail school, lose motivation to work and accept her husband’s infidelity as her fault. Trigger warning: This story touches on parental emotional abuse and self-hate

The subjects of this Love Life are Blessing* and Tunde* who are both 30. They tell us about meeting through work, two failed proposal attempts and how Tunde pulled what he considers the “greatest scam of all time” by making sure they got married on their shared birthday.

Today’s subject is Odunayo, a Keke rider. She tells us how she navigates being a breadwinner, a traditional chief, and a woman in a male-dominated field. MONDAY: My day starts really early. I live with my mum and my two children. But I am a single mum. So, that means I have to wake up […]

What’s your oldest memory of money?  One day – I think I was seven – my mum just came into the room with a black plastic bag. There was money inside ₦2.5 million. She just – Wait, what? Yes. She just said, “keep this money, this is for your dad’s next car.” I don’t know […]

This week’s #NairaLife is made possible by Premium Pension. What’s their bragging right? They’re one of the first to be licensed in this Pension grind. Over 600,000 people trust them. And their assets under management have crossed 700 billion. Big deal. The guy in this story is not only 33 years old, he’s also looking […]

5:20 AM The sound of people wake me: “Dry clean your clothes, dry clean your clothes.” When I sit up to look, I see that they are men and young boys carrying white plastic bags filled with clothes to be dry cleaned. I fall back into bed and close my eyes. I am tired. I […]

This is one of my favourite love stories, ever. `