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Humans are equal as humans

Nkechi Bianze — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:06:40 +0000

There’s this elderly man that worked temporarily as a driver for my mum. I met him when I went home in 2013. We got into a conversation one day, one talk led to the other, and he told me that he has TWELVE children. I mean 12. He said it with all pride and joy, […]

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Raising Bilingual Children in Diaspora

Rachel — Tue, 23 May 2017 09:15:53 +0000

I remember growing up as a young girl in Lagos, and we had cousins that were never spoken to in Yoruba. I thought it was Da Bomb cos I thought they were so so posh. Now I stay trying to watch Yoruba films and learn the proverbs of old. I’m in love with women like […]

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When it comes to the difference between Western and Nigerian education, thinking makes all the difference

Akin VoGg — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:00:05 +0000

Why would a 4-year-old child from Nigeria who is able to recite the alphabets A-Z, numbers 1-100, States and Capitals etc, still be seen not to be as smart as a child of the same age from UK who at the best try can only read 1-20 and identify a few different colours? The answer […]

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The stupidity of trying to control another human

Victor C. Ibeh — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:37:32 +0000

Marital control The idea that a man should marry a woman he can control is one of the most ridiculous ideas that people peddle in our society. Let’s for a moment assume that controlling another person is right, why do people get angry when it is a said that a woman is controlling her husband? […]

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African African Why Wait?: A Poem On Self Love

Wordsmithf — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:59:31 +0000

African, African why wait? For the media to acknowledge your beauty, your substance, the richness of your culture, the uniqueness of your paradigm, the poetry that is your language? Why wait for another to declare that your life matters? African, African take a good look at yourself and see That you are rich and as […]

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Unwanted/Unplanned Pregnancies: What Next?

Wordsmithf — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:21:22 +0000

One of my mum’s cousins got pregnant at 16. She told her parents that she didn’t want an abortion, but didn’t want to marry the man responsible for her pregnancy. Her parents took her in and took care of her till she had her baby. She then went back to school for her WAEC. She […]

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Examination Malpractice in Nigeria

Wordsmithf — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:50:27 +0000

On the day of the release of our WAEC results, I checked my results and saw that I cleared all my papers. I immediately called my friend and former schoolmate, and she told me that she managed only two credits. It was a mixed feeling of joy and sadness because I wanted her to pass […]

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Osun State and CAN now encouraging religious freedom in public schools?

Charles Uzor — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:45:46 +0000

The events unfolding in Osun State have once more shone the light on the stark reality of the nature of the nation’s problems. Following a court order granting Muslim pupils the right to show up in classrooms attired in hijabs, the local Christian body CAN had instructed parents to send their wards to school wearing […]

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43 Nigerian Students Break Records At Howard University

Rachel — Fri, 20 May 2016 13:51:22 +0000

It did not make the headlines. And why would it? Students graduate in their thousands around this time in the US. The only reason the major newspapers reported the event was because the head of state, President Barack Obama, was in attendance and delivered the commencement lecture at Howard University, Washington DC. But there was a major […]

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Aregbesola and the Goblet of Gloom: Osun State gov awards graduate with a cup

Rachel — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:01:40 +0000

I don’t know why Rauf Aregbesola hates education so much, I really don’t. Education and health care are two things the Osun State governor dey forbid. The worse these two sectors do, the more despondent the students are, the more impoverished the workers are, the better he feels, I think. Maybe he’s cast a macabre […]

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