A few weeks ago, Nigerian men on Twitter came up with a new name for women: Settings babe. One would never have guessed what it meant, and even after I explain it, you might still wonder how they came up with it. A Settings babe is a woman who accepts invitations as long as she knows food will be available and she can take pictures. The term caused an uproar online because it was another instance of men using the …
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To talk about kissing as an art, we need to talk about chemistry and all the things that build up to that exact moment. Imagine running into someone you’ve had a crush on for months. You …
The girls decided to spend the night at Lillian’s and take Aba home the next day. Rami would tell her mom that she was bringing some people around to meet her and then go with Peter …
Now Lillian quickly drove them back to where Peter and the herbalist were waiting. They were euphoric with the success of their mission. “How did it go?” Peter asked anxiously when the girls got out of …
The ride to Nokalu was mostly quiet, with Rami intermittently repeating the words she was supposed to say at Nokalu and the follow-up responses she was supposed to give when asked. By the time they got …
Nobody is as serious about marriage as a mother who is desperate for their daughter to get married. My mother started with subtle hints about finding a serious relationship that would lead to marriage when I …
Written by Ifeoluwa. I have watched my mother burn the midnight oil, praying at the top of her voice for our marriages, asking that any spiritual hindrance keeping her daughters unmarried be taken up and out …
Written by Eniiyi When Ifeoma opened her mouth to tell him to stop, nothing came out. They had been having sex for a few minutes when his hands closed around her neck, and at first she …
On the 9th of September, Elizabeth ‘Tsontso’ Moselakgomo, a 38-year-old mother and a runner, left her home in Kempton Park for her usual afternoon run. When she did not come back home, her daughter alerted the …
On January 24, 2023, someone placed a distressing call from a home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The caller was Patrick Clancy, and he had just returned home to find his three young children unconscious in the basement. …
Aba was nervous. She knew that something was happening, but she didn’t know what. She had been awakened earlier than usual and allowed to walk around the compound of her prison. Her handler, whom she had …