December
15,
2024
The Mean Landlord This is the husband who bullies and threatens his wife with quit notice at every turn. Here are some of his favorite refrains: “I’ll soon send you back to your...
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Entries Tagged - By Funke Egbemode
December
8,
2024
When you see Carl and Mary, all you think of is perfect romance. Carl is tall and handsome, very supportive of Mary’s career and business. They had been dating for three years and were...
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November
3,
2024
Rose is one of the women who suddenly became a widow as a result of the November 1996 crash of an ADC aircraft that plunged into the Ejirin swamps on its way from Port Harcourt. She was in...
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October
13,
2024
Nobody understands. How could she do it? Why did she do it after all these years? An affair after 25 years of marriage and three grown-up children? What is she still looking for? What...
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September
22,
2024
Sometimes, a woman is just a glorified call girl, “olosho”, but she tells herself she’s in a relationship. She calls a man her boyfriend while he sees her as just a booty call. She believes she...
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September
15,
2024
Monogamy is a tough call. One-man-one-woman can only be the title of a book, it can’t be law or most men will end up in jail. Fine, women cheat too but for today, let’s just concentrate...
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September
8,
2024
It is God who gives babies. It is the God-assigned duties of parents to nurse and nurture those babies into adulthood. It is a long journey, onerous task to grow babies into adults. Every...
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August
18,
2024
It’s been going on for years, maybe three, maybe more or less. Everybody expects the journey to culminate at the usual final bus stop. And true to people’s expectations, it looks like the normal...
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August
11,
2024
She has lost two children. One via miscarriage, the other through still-birth. They just couldn’t afford basic medical-care. So, when she gave birth to her son, she was not just over the...
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July
15,
2024
One of the things I find most wondrous about God is the way He distributes children. Oh yes, I’m a Christian and I strongly believe that God is the “giver” of children. I do not believe that...
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June
30,
2024
I met a woman, a mother-in-law, in Jordan. I mean at the River Jordan while I was on pilgrimage to Israel many years ago. We were on the same bus and in the same prayer group. It was an intensive...
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June
24,
2024
Whatever your description of marriage – passion, love, investment or even a divine call, what is common to all marriages is that it is about flying blind, with only faith providing the wind for...
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June
23,
2024
This bride is not turned on by humble-beginnings or aroused by let’s-start-together-from-the-scratch pitch. The soup must not only be cooked and ready to be served, there must also be a servant...
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June
16,
2024
Tamino was a man about town. He played the field and sowed generously. He gave himself as well as his substance. He was the Nigerian version of Don Juan. He knew where all a girl’s buttons were and...
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May
26,
2024
This piece was inspired by a story told by the old man of an honourable member while I served briefly at the National Assembly. His choices of words were really what got me thinking. I must confess I...
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May
19,
2024
Whether you are a runs-girl or a serious, ready-to-mingle-single looking to settle down, you need an extra pair of eyes to ‘see’ the man on your case. Pastors call it discerning spirit. It’s...
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May
11,
2024
There is a way men want the world to work and that is the way they have skewed it since the Garden of Eden… You wanted us in the kitchen, we stayed there. You wanted us in za ozza room, we...
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May
5,
2024
A man with the he-goat spirit is a man who does not listen to your advice. It’s not that he does not respect you. It’s just that he respects that thing in-between his legs more. He is not deaf...
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April
21,
2024
If there is a marital sin any wife is adjudged guilty of even before she makes her case, it is the one where she passes off another man’s child as her husband’s. Nobody really cares why...
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April
13,
2024
Have you been wondering why things are not the way they used to be between you and your wife? Is she giving you cold shoulders instead of warmth? Hugging her pillows instead of you? Ah, you...
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