Former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Goni, says the Federal Government was ready and had the money to pay civil servants a N150,000 minimum wage. But the plan failed because state governments, local councils, and the private sector pushed back. Goni is now calling for an urgent change…
We were strangers on a bus in foreign man’s land. As Black people, we naturally got talking, exchanged contacts, and from that day, a friendship was born. Since then, we’ve been very close. We go out together, talk about everything, and anytime she cooks, she calls me to come and get some. What started as…
A United States court has sentenced Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, to five years in prison for orchestrating an online romance scam that defrauded eight victims of more than $3.5 million. Nwadialo, 42, was arrested by the FBI at a Texas airport upon arriving in the United States…
By the time we hit three and a half years of marriage in a few months, I still won’t know how to describe what we have in this marriage. Maybe it’s because it still feels relatively new, but I have reached a point where I can no longer hide the “man” in me that wants…
Two weeks after marriage, my husband’s taxi had an accident and the driver died. This is a taxi he had owned for over four years, and this same driver had worked with the taxi, making sales for him every day. The taxi was completely mangled, though the accident didn’t look very serious. My husband was…
When I needed money to go to school, or whenever I was short of cash while I was in school, I would call him and, within minutes, the money would be sitting sweetly in my account. During vacations, he sent me money every week, and that was what I used to take care of myself…
I accidentally saw my girlfriend’s bank account, and my life hasn’t been the same since. This is a woman who would call me late at night and tell me, “You’re my last hope. Please do something for me.” I would send my last pesewa to her because I was her last hope, and that kind…
When my dad died three years ago, my elder sister moved my mom abroad to live with her. We lived in a huge four-bedroom house, and when my mom moved, the whole house was left to me. I wanted to rent it out and get myself a small place to rent, but my mom had…
That night, I wasn’t furious, I was just still in a state of shock. I provide for this house, the basic needs and the little luxuries within our means, and I provide them fully. There is a roof over your head, there is a gate outside the house. “Why would you go for a loan?”…
When we got married at that beautiful ceremony, never in our wildest dreams did we imagine that years later we would be standing in a courtroom asking for a divorce. But that is life. It happened, and we moved on. The divorce was mutual. Neither of us fought it. Between the two of us, our…