Last week I was invited to speak to a large audience of young girls on the subject of sexual perversion. The aim was to show the girls practical ways that they can eschew sexual debauchery. As anticipated, after my presentation, questions came in and one of those questions is what I want to address in Read More…
Urban Living
Why do teenagers fall pregnant?🤷♀️
It is no longer news that teenage pregnancy is a personal challenge that is fast becoming a universal challenge through which illiteracy and poverty are recycled. Before now, I used to erroneously believe that poverty is the only reason why teenage girls fall pregnant, but working with young people has opened my eyes to how Read More…
Would he, would he not?
Diary of a Single-Mum When I became a single mom, I thought, is it for me? I kept asking myself, who would now date a single mom? I had been in a long-distance relationship for almost two years with my baby daddy. We broke up a few months after my daughter was born and I Read More…
JUULING/VAPING…(Juuling is pronounced as jeweling)
Parents wake up o, another one is in town, although it has been around for a while now, but recently, it is gaining more popularity and market acceptance, especially among teenagers and young adults as they can use it right under the noses of their parents without them knowing what it is. WHAT IS JUUL? Read More…
Sex As A Skincare Routine
Do you know that some teenage girls are actually having sex as a skincare routine? E shock you abi, lol. Well, as untrue and shocking as that sounds, it is true. Some girls have actually been misled to believe that the reason they have pimples fighting for space on their faces is that they are Read More…
Controversy over Hitler’s $1.1m watch
A controversy is raging over the sale of a watch said to have belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The watch was auctioned off on July 29 for $1.1million at an auction in the US. The watch, a Huber timepiece, was sold to an anonymous bidder. It shows a swastika and has the initials AH Read More…
How To Safeguard Your Child/Home From Alcoholism
(Note: this writeup is based on what I have learnt working with teenagers in my community and also my observation living in a community that is ravaged by the menace of alcoholism; hence, I do not claim expertise in this field) A few days ago I made a post here about a 6-year-old boy I Read More…
Nigerian-owned firm to study babies’ cries with $2.5m
A firm, Ubenwa Secures, has received $2.5 million in funding to help parents and clinicians understand an infant’s cry. Ubenwa Secures, which is based in Montreal, Canada, was co-founded by its Nigerian Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Charles Onu. The firm is a pioneering developer of diagnostic software for the rapid detection of medical anomalies in Read More…
Lagos residents differ on mental evaluation in marriage counselling
Lagos residents are divided on how mental evaluation should be included in pre-marital and post-wedding counselling to prevent the rising spate of domestic violence in homes. In a study carried out by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Lagosians in separate interviews on Friday, however, agreed that mental and psychological evaluation before and periodically during Read More…
April Fools! San Francisco police pull over driverless car
San Francisco police were left scratching their heads after they pulled over a car earlier this month for driving without headlights at night and found no one inside. In what otherwise would have been a great April Fools’ Day joke, San Francisco police officers pulled over a driverless car operated by General Motor Co’s Cruise Read More…