We reimagined Sleeping Beauty's prince as an unemployed man named Endurance. It's exactly as messy as it sounds.

We reimagined Belle from Beauty and the Beast as a stressful Nigerian named Bose. You can only imagine how crazy things get.

Oluwaseun In 2019, I got a DM on Instagram from a company, informing me that they had some open vacancies. I applied for the role of supervisor and sent in my CV. A few hours later, I got another DM and a text message from their representative, inviting me to an interview at an office […]

The idea of lifelong friendships sounds nice, but it doesn’t always happen. Friends fall out or drift apart all the time for myriads of reasons. For some people, it happens because their friend got married and decided that they didn’t want to be friends anymore. This is a lot more common than you’d think, so […]

My favourite first question is – Hmmm..First memory of money? Haha. Exactly.  It was in secondary school. My allowance for the week was ₦250 per day or something. So I got maybe ₦1k a week. I spent it on meat pie. I was not one of those “I am saving my money.” Tuck shop! Haha! […]

"Maybe what I actually need is therapy."

The subject of today’s Abroad Life is a 29 year old woman who moved to Canada when she was 11. She talks about the sudden move, the lack of community growing up, and her biggest problem in Canada: finding love.

Every Monday morning, Zikoko’s new Citizen “Politics 101” will curate the biggest news stories that made the rounds over the weekend, including the most significant news stories we’re tracking in the new week. 1. Omo, Aisha Buhari Really Went Abroad And Came Back To Tell Us Not To Go Abroad Aisha Buhari is really trying to fumble […]

Ever since the lockdown eased up, there has been a relaxed atmosphere among Nigerians. Fewer people are wearing masks and there are “small parties” happening all over the country. Understandably, people are tired.  How worried would you feel if you avoided these parties, followed the necessary guidelines, and still got COVID-19? Today, Lisa and Tomiwa […]

It’s pretty common to have unrealistic expectations about how your first time having sex will turn out. Thanks to movies and books, many hope for something magical and earth-shattering, but that’s rarely ever the case. So, we asked 7 Nigerians to share with us how their first times went — juxtaposing expectation with reality. From […]