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She died in labour, “Oh my God, can’t imagine, thank God I was not the one’’. She failed her exams, “Ehyah, thank God I passed mine once’’. I can go on and on. Tragedies befall people and I’m not saying you should wish you were the victim, far from it. If life was a movie, it’ll definitely end as a tragi-comedic one. Some will end up smiling, some dead, some sad and alive. A lot of us are not exactly sympathetic about what happens to other people as long as they don’t affect us directly. We’re more gladdened by the fact we’re not the one affected but have you ever stopped to think for a minute “what if I was the one?’’ Errrr no, as long as it didn’t happen to us, it’s as good as not happened at all. I’ve seen a lot of cases where people are very confident that some of the challenges people face will never happen to them but sadly, it eventually does happen to them in like seven folds or more. It has made me realise that anything can happen to anyone. No one is too super to...

Family = FAM, I Love You (lol, I know how that sounds too). So let’s get to it, what does it mean to be fam? These days, you see people say ‘happy birthday fam’, ‘what’s up fam’ and all other fam-related sentences. After much observation, I’ve decided to define fam as someone who is either blood related or non-blood related who you share a lot with, trust, fight with and for, and very loyal to. Who can be fam? Being fam isn’t a gender thing, anyone can be fam. Your girlfriend or boyfriend can be fam only if you have mutual friends and they get along well with your blood relations. Your blood related family can be fam provided they have the fam qualities which being blood isn’t one of.    Basic fam rules    v Always make sure that the person you consider fam thinks you’re fam too. It shouldn’t be one-sided.   v You should be able to insult (yab) fam without them taking offense. However, never insult fam during an argument or a fight....

Some of us want to get married someday for different reasons. Some seem logical while some do not; it’s all about our perspective. Long story short, of all the one million reasons to get married, which would inspire you or rather, will be the reason behind your getting married? For love ; A lot of us want this until we find out that love can’t pay bills. Lol, I’m kidding. No, not really. But yes, this happens and this is definitely why I’m getting married because they say love conquers all (I heard you say ‘’if I hear’’). For money ; It’s better to cry in a Lamborghini than be trekking thinking about your life. For this reason, a lot will rather go for #teammoney than #teamlove because ‘’who love epp?’’ Didn’t the Bible even say even say that money answereth all things? For connections ; Connection is more important than money, so I heard. We want to make or keep that connection no matter what it takes so if I have to marry Dangote’s son to get some kind of connection, no w...

On my way home sometime last week, I stopped this bike-man and told me how much he’ll charge so we haggled. We eventually concluded that I’d pay 80 naira instead of the 100 naira he asked for with the condition that he’d pick up someone else. I was cool with that. He tried picking up someone else but the person wanted to pay 70 naira instead of the 80 naira he was charging me. I thought it was a good deal because he’d get to get something rather than stand the chance of no one else going towards our direction therefore getting only 80 naira instead of 150. It was simple mathematics and common sense to me but he refused to see it that way. It was an ‘integrity issue’ like one of my friends would say. He didn’t want to stray away from what he said or purposed in his heart. He wanted it his way or no other way regardless of what he stood to lose or gain. I’ve heard people say stuff like ‘I’d rather go hungry than ask him for money’ and many more statements relating to that. It sounds ...