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  • If this sounds like you, welcome on this journey.

    1) You are scarily good at rough play.

    All the years of wrestling with your brothers has developed an appetite for violent activities disguised as play.

    2) Competition is your middle name.

    Your brothers must never win anything because you won’t hear the end of it. However, it has now spread to your life as everything is a competition for you.

    3) There was never anyone to practice braiding with.

    You had to learn many things alone because no one to share your struggles with.

    4) Your friends had a crush on your brothers.

    Iyama.

    5) You’ve had crushes on your brother’s friends.

    Especially the older ones.

    6) They never allowed you to touch the play station.

    Except in very rare cases did they allow you play with them.

    7) Sadly, you now have a high iyama meter.

    Growing up with boys means that you now have a higher tolerance for things many people consider as disgusting.

    8) Your speciality is stealing your brother’s clothes.

    Especially if they are older because they just fit so snugly.

    9) Your brothers never get tired of embarrassing you.

    The see finish is just too much.

    10) They can be overprotective.

    At the end of the day, you try to understand that it’s all love from them to you. You wouldn’t trade them for an American visa.

  • Looking like your parents isn’t a big deal for you, especially if you really don’t see it. So while everyone else scrambles above themselves to compare every habit and utterance of yours to your parents’ you just want them to get over it.

    On the other hand, it can be fun and you get a kick over people’s reaction to your resemblance, particularly when it dawns on you that some members of your family can’t tell you (or your voice) apart from your mother or father.

    Here are some of the things you will relate to if you look like your parent:

    1) You’re often mistaken for them.

    People will call you by their name more times than you can count and look shocked when it turns out to be you.

    2) You know the phrase “spitting image” by heart.

    This is a statement you encounter at least once a month and have gotten tired of hearing.

    3) Your friends never believe how much you look like your parents until they see them.

    They probably thought you were exaggerating your likeness and rolled their eyes before making that expected statement, “Everyone looks like their parents joor.”

    Wait until they see how much you look like yours.

    4) Then they never get tired of joking about how identical you are.

    This is where they ask if you are siblings or twins. No oh, we are triplets.

    5) You’ve gotten used to hearing, “haba, your mama/papa they run go?”

    It’s hard for people to come to terms with the fact that you had no say in the matter of your looks–it’s just genes people.

    6) Your parent’s old photos can pass for your most recent.

    Even their pose in it is a direct copy of your favorite pose.

    7) People love to tell you how you’ll age.

    Self-proclaimed experts will use your parents as a reference on how you’ll look when you get older. Like you didn’t know that already.

    8) Getting peppered with questions about how your siblings look.

    Surely, you must all be mirror images of your parents if you look the way you do.

  • Being the last child in a family comes with its perks and frustrations. And it also comes with a lot of condescending statements from people who try to define the life of the last child even though they have no idea how it is.

    Here are some of the things every last born in the family has heard more times than they can count and they are sick of hearing:

    People believing that everything you own are hand-me-downs:

    From your baby crib to your last phone and even your university admission

    Being compared to older siblings if you attend the same school:

    You’re likely to hear that they were smarter and better behaved than you. A teacher would surely say, “Why can’t you be more like your sibling?’

    Everyone calling you ‘smallie’:

    Even when you turn 70 and have grandkids, your older relations will always regard you as the baby of the house.

    When people tell you that you have no problems because your older siblings solve them before they occur:

    The belief that you’re always needy and subservient to your siblings, financially, is so inherent in Nigeria it’s a wonder that last borns are yet to hold a mass protest against it.

    Being told that your opinion doesn’t count or you don’t know what you’re saying because you’re the last born: 

    This usually happens in families where there’s a huge age gap between siblings. Everyone feels they know more about your life than you because they’ve lived longer.

    Being told that you are mummy’s pet and daddy’s padi:

    And then you’re considered weak and soft because of this.

    “Let your mummy give birth to another baby now, are you not tired of being a last born?” 

    Every last child heard this statement at least once in their life when they were a kid. 

    The endless memes that declare you as an amebo that can be bribed to disclose any secret:

    Because you have nothing better to do with your life than to be a tattletale and all you really care about is becoming a monitoring spirit.

    Everybody regards whatever you do as “last born syndrome.”

     This is the ‘get out of jail free’ card that society has given to you. It excuses all your wrongdoings in their eyes. 

  • 1. When you buy something new and they wear it without your permission

    Aunty, did we buy it together?

    2. When they think your makeup is their makeup

    No, but how?

    3. How they avoid buying anything because they know they’ll get to use yours

    Is that how life is?

    4. When you’re on the phone with bae and they start their wahala

    Do you want to get bitch-slapped, though?

    5. When they hang around you when your friends are arounId, you’re like

    My friend if you don’t disappear!

    6. When you’re now going out with your friends and they say they want to follow you

    Will you keep quiet?

    7. When you get a new job and they start asking for money

    Did I born you, though?

    8. Your face, when they now have the audacity to use your ATM behind your back

    Oh so we’re now using banks together? Issokay!

    9. You, when you catch them wearing your underwear

    Ewwww!

    10. When they now tell you they have boyfriends

    I’m having boyfriend, you’re having boyfriend. Disrespect!

  • 1. When you wake up and your sibling has wet the bed you are sharing.

    2. When it’s time to decide who gets the bigger piece of meat.

    3. When they bring their irritating friends to the room to play when you just want to relax.

    4. When your parents make it too obvious who their favourite child is.

    5. When it’s time to go out, the struggle for the front seat and window seats are epic.

    6. When all of you hustle to hide the remote control so you can watch what you want.

    7. When an aunty or uncle gives you money to “share amongst yourselves”.

    8. When one sibling does something wrong and wants to put everyone in trouble.

    9. When one sibling is a professional snitch.

  • 1. Every one has different colours to identify their stuff

    All my clothes were blue, my two brothers were red and green.

    2. Getting ‘hand-me-downs’ instead of new clothes

    We called them “you go grow reach am”.

    3. Constantly sharing your bed

    There’s always one uncle/aunty that’s sharing your bed.

    4. Running to the bathroom in the morning to be the first to shower

    I won gold in the 100 meter bathroom dash.

    5. People always eating food you kept for later

    They even put the empty plate back in the fridge.

    6. Your parents beating all the kids for something one person did

    Getting slapped over something that happened when you were asleep.

    7. Always having to share food with your siblings

    Share everything like national cake.

  • 1. When they wake up before your mother has to and you now look extra lazy.

    What’s doing these ones?

    2. When they call your lesson teacher to remind him you have lessons.

    Are you people alright?

    3. How they run to report you to your mum when you’ve done something wrong.

    Tired. Just tired.

    4. When your parents are shouting at you, they’re like:

    ‘God have catch you!’

    5. On the day you get you’re school results, you’re like:

    These people will not let me rest today!

    6. Meanwhile, they’re like:

    Winner we don win o!

    7. When they remind your mum she was supposed to beat you.

    Are you trying to be unfortunate?

    8. When you do something better than them, they’re like:

    Kuku kill yourself.

  • 1. These adorable princesses

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BK1bZw8guVt/?taken-by=m12photography

    2. These cute twin sisters

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BKbEUwSg01N/?taken-by=m12photography

    3. Hello cowboys!

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ0ghcAA6lK/?taken-by=m12photography

    4. Big sister goals

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BIUzewCArMC/?taken-by=m12photography

    5. When you’re no longer the only child.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BFM7kciLlJp/?taken-by=m12photography

    6. Who doesn’t want cute babies like this please?

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BERiOtLLlMq/?taken-by=m12photography

    7. How adorable are these sisters?

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BD_Q5yErlC9/?taken-by=m12photography

    8. They’re so pretty in pink

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BCLcWdirlBe/?taken-by=m12photography

    9. They’re too cute for words

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BBxV4YYLlLg/?taken-by=m12photography

    10. Just see the look on her face

    https://www.instagram.com/p/_86a-PLlJ9/?taken-by=m12photography

  • 1. The battle for control of the TV remote.

    Every single day!

    2. Arguments over the household chores.

    “But I washed plates this morning and afternoon. No it’s your turn!”

    3. When you have to agree on who sits at the front of the car.

    “I can’t hear your insults. I’m too busy enjoying my front seat.”

    4. Arguing over the sharing ratio when guests give you money.

    Especially when the eldest wants to start using age to do ojoro.

    5. Deciding who has to answer your parents when they shout “Who is there oh? !”

    “It’s your turn oh, come and be going!”

    6. When the oldest starts forming class captain.

    My friend will you gerrarahia!

    7. When there is disagreement on who gets the largest meat.

    “If you collect that meat I will blow you!”

    8. When you don’t want to do “and co” and have to choose styles.

    “I say I have already chosen off shoulder blouse and fish tail skirt choose your own style ah! Copy copy!”

    9. When your parents buy something for just one child and the rest of you are like:

    “Well done shey you hear! But if they born you well don’t share it with us oh!”

    10. When you have to choose a sibling to ask your parents for a favour, on behalf of everyone.

    Me again? Nope nope nope.

    11. When someone snitches on the crew.

    “JUDAS IS THAT YOU? Shebi mummy and daddy will still go out and leave us here with ourselves?”

  • 1. When someone wets the bed and now the whole room is unbearable.

    Oh no!

    2. When your siblings don’t knock before entering your room then you remember it’s their room too.

    So you people cannot sleep on the roof or something?

    3. When their friends visit and they decide to hang out in the room.

    Hello please we are already too many in this place come and be going!

    4. When they enter your side of the room.

    With speed and alacrity.

    5. When one of your things is missing and you’re not sure you lost it or they took it.

    Hmmmm.

    6. When you are ready to sleep but they aren’t ready yet so the light is still on.

    Please what are you doing?

    7. When they scatter the room and your mother comes to shout at you.

    I didn’t even do anything!

    8. When your crush calls and you have to hide to talk to him/her so your siblings don’t start adding mouth.

    “HAYYYY ARE YOU TALKING TO HIM. EHEN GOOD EVENING OH. HELLOOOO.”

    9. How your siblings stare at you when your parents beat you and you go to cry in your room:

    “Sorry. Oya what happened?”

    10. What the queue for the bathroom looks like:

    “I’m after you oh!”

    11. When you have a few moments of peace and quiet and the room to yourself.

    12. When your siblings come back to scatter your peace of mind.

    Is it too much to ask for peace and quiet?

    13. When you tell your parents you would like your own room and they suggest you marry:

    Na wa oh!