I Lost My Website. So Here I Am 🤷‍♀️

2020 was shitty. It came with a lot of loss. By November, I was only grateful for life. That of mine and those who are mine. Then I got an email from my hosting and domain people that both were going to expire. I did not have the money to renew them both, so I…

When My Facebook Page was My Blog

I started blogging in 2016, a few months before I finished school. It was my last semester and we were in the last weeks before the final exams. I had a laptop and that was what I used to begin blogging. My phone was a miserable Blackberry torch2. I call it miserable because I couldn't…

5 Pointers That You Are Not an Entrepreneur

Can you count how many times you have heard people give the if-you-want-to-succeed-in-Nigeria-you-have-you-be-an-entrepreneur speech? I can't. I've been hearing it since I was in primary school, literally. And when I graduated from university, it was ringing in my head: you have to have the mind of an entrepreneur in order to rise above the Nigerian…

5 Reasons why Nigerian Graduates are Unemployable

Every employer has a set of goals he intends to achieve and every job sector has a job content as well as professional capacity to sustain it in the highly competitive global clime. This is the reason why professionals are always making input of fresh ideas and innovation into their industry. Sadly and Incidentally, the…

3 Things You Should Not Ignore if You Want to Avoid Headache at Your New Place of Work

The desire of every employee is to do their job (I would like to exempt some government workers from this 🙄), find favour in the sight of their employers (and colleagues) and get paid (on time) at the end of the month. Sometimes, it's smooth but most times you find it difficult to find a…

Salary: Dead on Arrival!

By Sunday, I would have been working for a month. Sigh. The first two weeks were slow. One day felt like two days and so two weeks seemed like a whole month. The third week, however, ran like a cheetah and before I knew it, it was Monday of the fourth week. What this means…

When You Feel You’re Left Behind…

I feel a bit down today. A few days ago, one of my friends from unversity chatted me up. This was the short exchange 👇 Her family just recently got an elevation and I know she can afford it right now. So I told her to go. This afternoon, I was in grade 4, teaching…

Nwa Teacher Chronicles: I’ve Got a Crusher!

So this little, pretty girl in grade two has a massive crush on me. OK, OK... not crush crush, but I noticed earlier this week that she smiles at me whenever our eyes meet and is always quick to greet me. I didn't think anything of it until three days ago when she came to…

Nwa Teacher chronicles: What do I do with My Naughty Kids o?

So, as you all know, last week was my first on the job and it was good, really. My skirt split, though, and I was forced to use one other one with spoilt zip (because when I tried to patch the split skirt myself, I realised I couldn't) and so all the clothes I wore…

My First Day at Work

Holla 👋... I officially resumed our job today. I updated everything in real time on instagram (if you're not following us there, what's your purpose in this life?), beginning with a rare video of me 😁. The video is the first before all these👇👇 So, we were asked to resume by 8am. I was there…

The Universe is Playing with Me!

For months, I sent applications around and searched for jobs upandan, no show. And then a job came and the gods of temptation sent agents of shield! Temptation comes in different forms. Me, I'm tempted to leave the job I have not yet started!😂 So, two days after I got the teaching job. I got…

How I Landed a Temporary Teaching Job (Part 2)

Read part one of this post here Even though I had absolutely messed up the interview process, the following day I received a call from them. Talk about a miracle! Again, they had sent me a message (which I did not receive) and the second stage of the interview (which I had qualified for, surprise-surprise)…

How I Landed a Temporary Teaching Job

Yes o! Say hi to the latest teacher in town! So, on the 31st Of July, I received a call for an interview for a teaching position in a private school. Apparently, they had sent me a text on one of the numbers on my CV, but being that that particular number was not in…

When You Have Long-Leg That You Cannot Use

So, since I passed out from NYSC in April and came back home, the person that seems to feel the pain of my unemployment (I think even more than I do) is my mother. Mostly because na she dey suffer am pass. You see, she takes it upon herself to help me financially, sometimes even…

The Relationship Between Bullying and Depression

On Thursday, I called my little sister, Butterfly, to my room. She had been too quiet for the past three days, moving around with a sullen face, practically dragging her slim, perfect body around, smiling at things she would ordinarily laugh at. I asked her if she was OK. She said yes. I asked if…

Throwback: The Toughest Exam I Ever Wrote!

I remember an exam I had once written back then in school. It was the toughest! In the end, I packed my things up and made for the front of the lecture theatre where I submitted my answer booklet. I walked out. It was hot but I felt a cold shiver travel through me. I…

My First Interview Ever: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned

It was sometime in November last year and I had just resumed serving in Nasarawa. I got a call from a neighbour back at home saying that his friend had just got called to work as a content developer for an agro-based NGO in Abuja. Because she was very busy at the time, she turned…

I Finally Got My Laptop!

After months of saving, losing and postponing, I got my laptop today. I went to Banex in Abuja with my friend and two of his brothers. Don't think it was too many people o, because the people at Banex can be crooks if you are not lucky to meet the good ones. I had only…

Now That I Am A Former Corper: Adjusting Into The Graduate Life

Since I came back home, things have changed. You know, I always had it in mind that things would change when I finished school, but I never thought it would be this... Overwhelming. As a jobless human, they have given me new roles at home and my worries have evolved into a journey of uncertainty.…

Help! How Do I Talk About Sex With My Teenage Sister?

You guys, I need your help! I have this younger sister that I am 7 years older than. She is the one I spoke about here and here. Most times, we are cool. Now that I'm a full time unemployed graduate and am always home, I'm like her daily diary where she offloads interesting events…