Tag: life

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 24, 2017

Edwin Okolo: Musings [NEW VOICES]

by Edwin Okolo In 2014 I started writing a manuscript. It took me a year and three months from the ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 21, 2017

Afam Ade-Odiachi: System collapse [NEW VOICES]

by Afam Ade-Odiachi The message came in at about 10:30, system failure, please reboot. I ignored it. Another pesky little ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 19, 2017

Funmi Iyanda: The marriage diary

by Funmi Iyanda I 1985 Yesterday brother Eleyinmi visited, that really is his name. He was an elder but not ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 19, 2017

Ezinne Ukoha: The Obamas | The last time is always the best (especially when in good company)

by Ezinne Ukoha   This is my last testimony. It will capture a period in time that was boundless and ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 24, 2016

Tamilore Oladipo: New year, same-ish me [NEXT]

by Tamilore Oladipo This has been a pretty terrible year. Like, if all the years of the new millennium got ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 23, 2016

Eyiamoni Apeji: The me I am when I am by myself [NEXT]

by Eyiamoni Apeji The me I am when I’m by myself is much better than anyone else. For one thing, ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 20, 2016

Boluwatife: The present in my past [Nigerian Voices]

by Joshua Boffin As I penned down my signature on the register, it dawned on me that life was really ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 18, 2016

The Thread: Don’t be fooled, many ladies are keeping themselves till marriage

We live in the real world, so the pressure for Christians to compromise their beliefs and values  comes in thick ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 14, 2016

Adeboro Odunlami: Not a good parent [NEW VOICES]

by Adeboro Odunlami Some mornings before I step out of my house, I look in my mirror and ask myself ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 13, 2016

Oreoluwa Fakorede: I am Nigerian [NEW VOICES]

by Oreoluwa Fakorede   I say it like it’s a condition I have lived with for years. I say it ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 10, 2016

Otasowie Christabel Ogiemwonyi: When the curtains do not fall [Nigerian Voices]

by Otasowie Christabel Ogiemwonyi **************** Sometimes, you crave for solitude but you find out you are with company. The peripatetic ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 10, 2016

Vera Ezimora: The Igbo language is trying to kill me

by Vera Ezimora The Igbo language is really trying to drive me nuts. Let me tell you how. The other ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 8, 2016

The Thread: She saved my number as Elvis cold stone

Relationships can be touch and go: one person can be invested in the relationship and the other is just along ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 8, 2016

Jonathan Mairiga: Times and seasons [Nigerian Voices]

by Jonathan Mairiga Most times in life, the picture we get from events and situations are not exactly what they seem ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 6, 2016

Edwin Okolo: Circumstantial Ownership

Republished with permission from uueirdness.wordpress.com I’ll start this post with a scenario: Imagine, if you can, that you walked out of ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 5, 2016

Ayodotun Rotimi-Akinfenwa: Don’t lose your Balance… [NEW VOICES]

by Ayodotun Rotimi-Akinfenwa Life is a tight rope of thoughts, decisions, actions and outcomes. You simply cannot walk away from it ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 4, 2016

Michael Ehinmowo: Possessing possession [Nigerian Voices]

by Michael Ehinmowo There has not been light. I charge my phone at the petrol station close to my house. ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 1, 2016

Kehinde: Private insecurities

by Kehinde There is a certain kind of shame that comes with having attended one of the best schools in ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 1, 2016

Eketi Edima Ette: International interviews versus Nigerian interviews

by Eketi Edima Ette Interview on BBC. My name is Adam Greene and this is Focus on Africa, on the ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 1, 2016

Bomi Ehimony: Friends are like blindfolds [Nigerian Voices]

by Bomi Ehimony On most days, I haven’t the slightest clue as to who I am. I have ideas, of ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 1, 2016

Nene Henshaw: 30 experiences before 30 [NEXT]

by Nene Henshaw I recently realized that I was no more a teenager and had in many ways reached the ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 30, 2016

Review: Toke Makinwa’s book ‘On Becoming’ is the first sound in a world of silence

by Afam Ade-Odiachi I worked in entertainment news for six months. I enjoyed a certain proximity to the people many ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 29, 2016

Opinion: How I lost a job with Google

by Viola Ifeyinwa Okolie I had a friend in school, the “most likely to succeed” type. She was brilliant – ...

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RoqeebahNovember 29, 2016

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce is making sense again

Senator Benedict Murray-Bruce is everyone’s favourite legislator who just wants to make common sense. No he’s not? Okay then. Senator ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 28, 2016

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto: I saved my marriage [Nigerian Voices]

by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite. ...

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ToluNovember 24, 2016

Octagon Session: Marriage and the breadwinner

On this week’s episode of The Octagon Session… The Octagon: Welcome to The Octagon. We appreciate your taking time out ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 22, 2016

Opinion: How things change gradually and then suddenly, sometimes

by Gidimeister Isn’t it familiar? We are slim and fit for the longest time, then suddenly, we are overweight and ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 19, 2016

Vera Ezimora: Back in America

In this new episode, Vlogger Ezimora goes from a meeting that didn’t happen to getting stuffed at Texas Roadhouse to showcasing ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 18, 2016

Vlogger, Vera Ezimora lets you in on her experience back in Nigeria (WATCH PT. 4)

After 16 years out of Nigeria, vlogger, Vera Ezimora finally took a trip back to the motherland this August with ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 16, 2016

Lekan Olanrewaju: Fleeing time [NEW VOICES]

by Lekan Olanrewaju Is it really as hard as it seems?   “And I hope self-actualisation is all I need ...

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