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 all have finally become rusty old chains around my neck, arms, and feet. I cry all the...
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 were the exact words written on the post. The man who made that statement had found his...
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 walked in. My brothers had whined in protest before my dad even held the remote. We knew...
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 as possible. Little did I know that Umaima would be getting married soon. She sent her...
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 you’ve been hearing about since your undergraduate days.
I got back home and soon it became clear I needed something to do to bring money home. A lot of people kept advertising different online schemes. I thought I should give it a shot.
One of them had offered me 30k monthly. It was a good deal since I would be working from home and it would serve me until I got a standard job. As I started I realized it was tough as it required about 22 hours of an online presence. I wasn’t getting enough sleep but it was worth it.
I soon realized I was working for someone and he was getting triple the amount he was paying me yet he keeps complaining about how slow I was and repeatedly threatened me. Regardless, I ignored his critics and continued because I was not a lazy person. I told myself that in at least a month, I’d learn the trade well and gain an amount of audience before I’d register and start working on my own.
What I did mostly included buying and selling. Yet it was time-consuming. I had hoped my December would be free and I could hang out with my friends but it wasn’t as it seemed. Due to the pressure, my employer had placed on me I sold past the stated amount of allowed sales per day. This act got me suspended. It was good since I could rest for the while and managed to visit a couple of friends.
I realized the situation was almost the same for everyone. They were all at home doing nothing apart from complaining about the system. I didn’t like the situation I found myself in but at least I was ready to change that. A couple of few who had hobbies or learnt trade was doing the little they could. But then seeing them move forward with the struggle gave me the strength to continue.
My account was reactivated afterwards and my boss complained about the hours I’d missed due to the suspension and wanted me to cover for it. How? I didn’t like the way he was pushing me around and I saw more reasons to open my own account directly and make sales for the company. The last straw was when he refused to give me my complete pay because of the suspension.
I met someone who told me they would help me get direct access to the company. He convinced me to pay him and I did only to find out he was a scam. I couldn’t cry because I knew I was the fool here.
I see a lot of graduates like me and I wonder what kind of life we would end up leaving. Please don’t say you were not told.
Start asking yourself, after graduation what next?
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 knot in their hometown. I was very happy for her although I was not in attendance...
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. Fasting is not for me; I just couldn't do it as much as I have tried. I grew up in a home where...
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, “Amaryaaaa!” Safiyya laughed and replied, “Hamra you’ll never change. How are you?” “I’m good o, ya...
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. It is also a time a lot of people deem fit for them to get married. Why is that, What's the...
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 a mistake and I'd like you to hear me out. Zuwairah is a classy young lady, though I was...
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 knowing didn't make it easier. There was a fraction of me, just a little part of me that...
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 between their legs. Their lack of control was something else. I thought I had seen it all until...
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 without question regardless of the proof his sister has put forward. He knew his siblings...
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 situation states otherwise. Her mother inch forward urging Aneesah to move back, stopping her...
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 and when I started digging this ditch that almost led to my death. But, I can only tell you...
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