What’s a man’s pride got to do with it when he smells the money?!
By Bunmi Sofola SYLVIA admitted that her parent’s marriage and the stoic way her mummy yielded her position as the first wife to a much younger and ambitious woman prepared her for the way she handled her relationship with men. Her story: ‘When a man suddenly discovered he’s scaled the ladder of success faster than he’d […]
‘University turned my daughter into an alcoholic!’
By Bunmi Sofola The hope of every mother is for her eldest child to leave the nest to start university – she also dreads the day it happens,” says Mudia, 51, an executive director of a stock broking firm”. So came the day when I hugged my 20-year-old Matilda goodbye in front of her new […]
Wives who fled their matrimonial homes with all material wealth…
By Bunmi Sofola It is believed the thunder seldom strikes twice at a spot but an adage warned that once you’ve witnesses its horror, you would show Shango (the god of thunder) more reverence. Anyone who has been through the rigours of divorce, battered, bruised and raw, will agree that it is a painfully traumatic […]
Fair-weather friends you can do without
By Bunmi Sofola Maggie, a contented mother of three ran into an old classmate three years ago, and her life has never been the same. “I went to the same polytechnic with Nelly,” she recalled “and we were the best of friends. Shortly after college, she travelled abroad and I got married to Supo, a […]
The best way to cover an affair? Get rid of the evidence!
By Bunmi Sofola My dearest”, the letter said. “I will call you my lady because that is what you are. Your breasts, your thighs, the way your eyes seemed to scream across the room, bidding me to seduce you, pulling me erect, drawing me, like moth before the flame, towards fire and abandon – are […]
It’s now okay for men to wear lip gloss!
By Bunmi Sofola It’s no longer news that a lot of women today would give an arm and a leg to look their best all the time, forever spending fortunes on cosmetics, clothes and attending expensive gyms. It stands to reason, therefore, that today’s man has to make more efforts towards not only netting the […]
