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Oil spill fire: My means of livelihood destroyed, how do I care for my children — 64-year-old mother of 7 laments

Oil spill fire: My means of livelihood destroyed, how do I care for my children — 64-year-old mother of 7 laments

As national and global attention is focused on the Santa Barbara River in the mangrove swamp of Nembe in Nembe LGA where a ruptured wellhead has been spewing crude oil into the creeks, rivers, rivulets, and gradually to the Atlantic ocean, another oil-related inferno has devastated a vast stretch of the luxuriant rainforest around the Okpotuawari/Ondewari corridor along the Ossiama Creek in the deep swamp of Southern Ijaw Local Are
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When two Elephants fight (3)

When two Elephants fight (3)

I believe I did all I did with sincerity, honesty and love for my friend and was trying to protect her. If we sat at the same table, there was no way my husband would not have discovered the identity of the man, and you can imagine the type of problem we will all be in right now.

When two Elephants fight (2)

When two Elephants fight (2)

She doesn’t know that I have spies in her shop who give me full details of what she does there. She has a new boyfriend who has entered her system, so she can’t reason properly anymore. I was told by my spies that they were discussing my affairs at the boutique over a bottle of Stout. Can you imagine? Maybe she was drunk then, because I still find it difficult to believe.

When two Elephants fight

When two Elephants fight

Hi, Ever imagined  what the ground would look like should two Elephants fight as a saying goes? Not very pretty I think. Then, take this other scenario. Imagine what would happen when things fall apart between two very close women who once did almost everything together. Worse than the joint efforts of two elephants I […]

Bearing the red flag  (3)

Bearing the red flag (3)

Ade, (29), Accountant: “I can’t remember clearly if the pains started immediately after I began menstruating or not. But if it didn’t, it couldn’t have been much longer. I began menstruating at the age of 14 years, a bit late because many of my age mates had started before then. Whenever the thing came, I would be so ill that going to school used to be a great problem.

Bearing the red flag  (2)

Bearing the red flag (2)

When I started, I usually feel pains on the first day. But after the first day the pain subsides and then its just the flow. I used to think that all my blood will dry up with time if care was not taken because of the heaviness of my flow. So, I used to take blood tonic. But over the years, the flow has reduced. I guess it has found a pattern.

Bearing the red flag

Bearing the red flag

I started menstruation at the age of 10. When I started, I felt strange because I thought I’d injured my self. But I could not recall how. I was so scared that I couldn’t tell my mum about it. Before it happened, I had no prior information about it, so that really made me scared all the more. It was my aunty that saw me and now told my mum about it.

First time out: (11)

First time out: (11)

Have you ever tried to think back, capture the first time you had sex? What was it like, was it as imagined? When did you first have sex? Why did you do it? With whom and are you still with the person? Given a second chance, will you do the same thing? Together with Onozure Dania, we talked to respondents and bring you their responses below.

First time out: (9) 5yrs after he took my virginity, I’m still waiting

First time out: (9) 5yrs after he took my virginity, I’m still waiting

He said he was very happy that he was the first man with me and wanted me to promise that he will be the only man that will be that intimate with me; he said he was very surprised to see a girl living in Lagos who could stay a virgin for that long, that he has not met a single virgin since he began dating, and neither had most of his friends

First time out: (8) My experience cost me my self-esteem

First time out: (8) My experience cost me my self-esteem

We both know this can’t go on for ever, eventually, we have to separate and pick our own partners so that the world will not discover us. Well, I think some close friends do suspect us, but no one has concrete evidenceagainst us. So, for now, we are just fine together.