leading and caring
“I closed late from work that day and I rushed home to cook dinner for my family. I knew I was forgetting something but I couldn’t remember at that time what it was. It was …
Stories
love in a strange place
“My first time of setting my eyes on her was at my sister’s burial service in church. She was one of the choristers who sang at the burial service. After the service, I walked up …
simple life
“What else do I need? I am already rich as I can be. See this keke, I bought it with my own money and I am happily riding it. No hire-purchase and nobody to give …
grandma’s blessings
“I didn’t want to go home that period, but my parents insisted. ‘Your grandma wants to see you, go and visit her.’ I reluctantly agreed and travelled. Grandma asked me why I haven’t visited her …
colourful
“I have been a painter for 15 years, training others and sustaining my family through this. I believe that someday, my life will be colourful.”#TalesOfNigerians
strength of a woman
“I married my first husband at a very young age but I was unable to conceive. When the family situation became really tensed because I couldn’t bear a child, I left the marriage and returned …
a mother’s heart
“I lost my husband in May 2018 and my daughter fell seriously in June of same 2018. She couldn’t walk and it was around the time she was preparing to write JAMB. We had to …
pouring it all in
“It all came to me. I just poured out my anger and life into this sculpture. In my SS1, I was withdrawn from a private school to a public school, because family fortunes turned bad. …
started out early
“I got married at the young age of 25 years old. The feeling was right and I felt deeply in my heart my wife was just the one for me. My family were against my …
making it from polygamy
“My mother was the 6th wife and I never stopped asking her why she agreed to be the 6th wife to a man who already had many wives and children. She often told me, ‘My …
