I didn't blame Maryam Sanda when she was found guilty of stabbing her darling. I wish I had her courage. I am in shackles. They used to have roses growing on them before now but...

I scrolled through Facebook reading posts to keep myself away from boredom, reacting to funny posts and commenting on some. "I will take a leap of faith and settle down!" These...

One night, the whole family was watching the television after dinner. As usual, I was with my phone as Telenovelas were not as interesting as Kamal, my new boyfriend. My dad had...

There I was in front of Umaima's house, waiting for her to come outside. I have been coming to see her for a month now. I hoped to make my intentions known to my parents as soon...

I could not believe my eyes at first but then I had caught my friend who just got married cheating on her husband. It was just two weeks after this friend of mine had tied the...

It may seem shocking to you but I am a twenty-seven-year-old Muslim and I do not fast. You may think I would have a medical backup or a particular reason why, but I don't....

Safiyya was in the middle of making her bed when her phone rang. It was her friend Hamra calling. After she picked, she was greeted with Hamra’s chirpy voice yelling,...

Ramadhan is a lunar month every Muslim looks forward to. It is a time most people want to stay close to family, do more good deeds, and indulge in devotional acts and the like....

I am married with a kid now. I know that sometimes it's confusing when it comes to trying to select a partner with whom you want to live the rest of your life. I might have made...

Life after the four walls of a university contains so many choices. Initially, you are happy that you just crossed a great hurdle only to be faced with the harsh labour market...

It didn't have to take a soothsayer or a magician to tell me that Abba was mad. Of course, I'd envisioned it, it was bound to happen, I knew this was how it would turn out, but...

I've met scumbags of different sizes with colours of problems that I cannot describe. Men! I despised some of them because they act like they were born with their brains in...

He bore his eyes into her welled-up ones searching for the truth and nothing but the absolute truth. Kamal wants her to falsify the newfound information and he'd believe her...

She was slowly cracking and they could sense it. It made them wonder what and why they did what they did to her. Do they truly deserve to be named parents? Cause the current...

Hello, beautiful people of Arewa, this is a real-life story of Tata. My name is Tata Bala, I live in Kaduna state Nigeria, and am the only child of my parents. I can't say how...

“What do you mean you can’t find her?!” Suraiya asked, panic written all over her face. Her aunt, Zainab rocked the baby trying to pacify him as they thought about where his...

Part 1: Nurse Bikina “Do you know how it feels to have a cheating husband?” “No, Ma”. I replied “With all I did for Garbati, can you see? Can you see where it has led me?!” She...

This is the story of Malama Sa'adatu, a beautiful woman who woke up to the frowned face of fate on her. She had narrowly escaped the inability to walk due to an injury sustained...

My name is Maimuna Garba, and this is my Fibroid journey. During my university days, almost towards my final year, that was around 2011, I started experiencing heavy bleeding. At...

I was at a job interview at a media house, anxious and fully prepared because I had always dreamt of being a T.V personality. I stepped into the office and all eyes were on me, I...