The 20-year-old in this #Nairalife dropped out of university and moved to Egypt to work as a house cleaner due to her family’s financial struggles. She also spent the last two years repaying a significant debt she owed her sponsor. But what’s her life like now?

Start with the top of your freezer, or inside it.

For Wunmi*, working with INEC is one experience she doesn’t want to relive again. She has no plans to return for the guber elections because she got “treated like trash.”

Valentine’s Day may be over this year, but you can get a head start for 2024. Try sitting in gutters in the hopes that the love of your life will find you there, or one of these other foolproof ways.

"In 2014, I wanted to explore my sexuality. I met this girl, Janet, on Badoo. She was nice. We texted for a couple of weeks before we started dating. There were no video calls then so we were always texting. In the third month of our relationship, she said she was travelling to Dubai for work and she wasn’t sure when she’d be back. She wanted to see me before she left. I told her I didn't have money and she said she would sponsor the trip. 

What’s not to love about ATMs? If you just ignore the long queues, bad network, and occasional swallowing of cards, ATMs are a lifesaver.  They do their jobs and let you go about your day. But what if you were stuck in a parallel universe where ATMs could speak? It’s 5 a.m. A young man […]

What’s it like being a Sallah ram? What goes through their minds as the big day approaches? This interview is an eye-opener.

If you are a student of the UniBen, then here are some things you definitely understand how they work. They are not new to you, and you are not new to them. 1) Shouting don’t pour when you want to cross the gutter in the hostel If you enter the hostel and you want to […]

“A Week In The Life” is a weekly Zikoko series that explores the working-class struggles of Nigerians. It captures the very spirit of what it means to hustle in Nigeria and puts you in the shoes of the subject for a week. The subject of today’s A Week In The Life is Adeyemi, a tanker […]

The subject of today’s Sex Life is a 31-year-old heterosexual woman who’s been cheating on her husband for the past year. She talks about their total lack of sexual chemistry and why she feels no guilt. What was your first sexual experience? Does masturbation count? It should, right? Yeah, it does.  Ok. I think I […]