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Relationship, Stories 24/08/2019 by Jennifer ( Jeni Pha ) Yange

My Fear Of Marriage And It’s Wrong Reasons

Most people today are marrying for the wrong reasons ‘oh we look good together, oh we have so many likes on social media’ others because their friends are all married and they are still single. They go into marriage forgetting that marriage requires a lot of hard work and sacrifice and compromise. Sometimes the woman makes it hard for the […]

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Culture, Stories 10/03/2019 by Angela Omaji

Returning Our Daughters Home; Our Customs And Traditions

Diary of an Idoma lady The Idoma people have so many customs and traditions which bid our people together and to the modern generation (21th century generation) it seems overbearing especially to the female gender. Most of these customs are gender sensitive and applied mostly to the female gender  Daddy girls even after marriage still prefers to be buried beside […]

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Relationship, Stories 10/02/2018 by Ogo Marilyn Omaafrica Anoma

Feel Free To Judge Me

A lot of you will be disappointed but then I am sorry…. I can’t help it! Every girl has at least dated a married man in her lifetime!  Yes I say this because I know and I have fallen in love and still in love and still dating a married man. Truth is, I can never stop loving him. I […]

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Relationship, Stories 28/08/2017 by Salome Labeh

Who Is An Ideal Marital Partner

Didn’t know how to cut it short as every line is important. My thoughts. We are naturally attracted to flashy things, anything that makes a lot of noise has a certain appeal to our minds. We follow a reigning trend without even considering the implications of our choices, insofar as many other people take the same way, we feel secure. […]

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Relationship, Stories 27/08/2017 by Ayila Waya

Honestly There’s Nothing Inside Marriage

The above statement is very true and a lot of people may laugh at me but they will agree it’s true. Especially with what I have seen in my marriage recently, I have been left with no choice but to believe every word of the statement that there’s nothing inside marriage, it is totally empty and I can prove it. […]

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Business, Stories 31/07/2017 by Kwaghdoo Enyi

Small Beginnings, Big Dreams

I have been obsessed with entrepreneurship for the past 2 years for a simple reason; I read a book called ‘The Unfair Advantage‘ by Robert Kiyosaki. He said when someone wants to be a pilot they go to aviation school, a wannabe doctor goes to medical school but when we want to start a business we just look for a […]

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Culture, Stories 30/07/2017 by Joan Agabi

The Most Vulnerable Adult

The most vulnerable adult is the woman waiting for a fruit of the womb. She is ridiculed, has lost her sense of self and is gullible to anything filtered to her that can bring forth a child. She is led high and low, to doctors and spiritual healers. Confesses to all sorts and checks her family tree for issues. She […]

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Creatives, Stories 30/07/2017 by Awa Ver Ikeseh

My Dreams Are Coming True

You all know how I love Arts and how I use the Human body as my canvas. This has been my passion since I was a little girl and I made it. In Primary School: I was the best fine arts student. I would draw and sculpt with clay……. Anything at home was raw materials… Omo! I destroyed stuff. My […]

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Relationship, Stories 28/07/2017 by Kwaghdoo Enyi

Here Is The 80/20 Rule

The other day a couple of my old girls came by and we ended up in a heated conversation over courtship, relationships, marriage and all the ships in between; divorce, separation, complicated, single parenting. This gave birth to my musing for today. As individuals do we seriously sit and pen down what we are looking for in a partner or […]

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