Honestly, once the scores reach 5-0, and people are laughing, just drop your pad and start fighting.

“I wasn’t allowed into the event hall, but as I stood outside, I saw that I was wearing all black, just like the ushers. The only smart thing to do was go to the food place and collect my own food… as an usher.”

"All the financial and emotional stress in the weeks leading up to the wedding shook me. I found myself asking if I was doing the right thing, or if I should cancel all the plans and just keep dating."

"We weren't even dating yet, and 3 days to my birthday she got me a cake, chin-chin, popcorn, and zobo. On my birthday she got me two cakes. I was amazed."

"I once asked a girl out and her response was "I only go out with men and not boys". When I asked her to clarify, she said, "You can't seriously call yourself a man at that height. You don't even have a beard too."

TW: Sexual abuse We’ve heard people say they wish they knew something different before they had sex, so we decided to ask Nigerian men how sex was different than they’d imagined. Here’s what they had to say: 1. Asim I wish I’d known how awkward sex can be. Movies always make it look straightforward and […]

Is it weird when a man cries in public? Many people think so. In fact, after asking nearly thirty men to tell me if they’d cried in public, I could only get 4 men to give me their stories. One other person in this article is me. Many of the responses I got were, “Why […]

As told to David Odunlami I started running to the top of a mountain recently to keep fit. On one of those runs, I met Peter*. We got talking and over the course of a few meetings, he told me his life story. The way I see it, my father hated me since the day […]

Trigger Warning: Pregnancy Loss A few months ago, we spoke with two women who had suffered miscarriages about their experiences. This time, we spoke with three men whose wives had suffered miscarriages about how it affected them. This is what they had to say: 1. Leke Before my wife had her two miscarriages about 15 […]

A few months ago, I was on a group where people were talking about how the culture of kneeling to ask for a woman’s hand in marriage was very new in Nigeria. The first thing that came to my mind was, “I wonder how my dad asked my mum to marry him?” I picked up […]