She left in September. Regular Temi. Shawarma. Pidgin. The group chat’s most reliable contributor. Strong opinions about jollof rice. The person you’ve known for eleven years, whose laugh you can recognize from the next room, and whose references require absolutely no explanation. She came back the following November. The person who returned looks like Temi, […]
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The rude awakening of graduating from a Nigerian university does not come with the convocation gown, the pictures with your parents, or the long motivational captions on Instagram. The real awakening happens in the first week you start working and quietly realize something deeply uncomfortable: you spent four or five years in the university, and
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If you listen carefully to conversations among young Nigerians today, you will notice something interesting. Language is moving at the speed of WiFi. New slang appears almost every week. One minute, everyone is saying a particular phrase, and the next minute, the internet has already moved on to something new. But the most fascinating part
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There are some things Nigerians will defend with the passion of a lawyer handling a billion-naira corruption case… even when everybody involved knows the thing has absolutely no business being defended. But the moment the debate starts, logic quietly excuses itself. Suddenly, people are providing childhood stories, village traditions, and their grandmother’s opinion as evidence.
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The budget meeting, as usual, happens in someone’s living room over a weekend. The looming event — a naming ceremony, a wedding, a birthday of a particular milestone number, or a burial that had to be done properly. The only question on the table is how to make it excellent. The event budget is discussed
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Ah, Nigerian men… where do we even start? Nigerian girls have officially reached peak exhaustion, explaining the same things over and over again. Honestly, some of these explanations are now eligible for a PhD dissertation in patience. You know what I mean. Let’s unpack the classics, the stuff that makes a Nigerian woman sigh, roll
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There’s a strange modern phenomenon happening everywhere, online, offline, in group chats, at family dinners, and especially on social media. Someone goes through one experience. Just one! Suddenly, they return like a warrior from battle, ready to teach the world the secrets of life. They have advice. They have threads. They have deep captions. And
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