Day 8: A Hard Conversation
This afternoon, I have a conversation with the new doctor on the rounds this afternoon – a middle aged man, average height and slightly cross-eyed. He is walking past …
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Day 7: Stories From the Frontline
Alhaji H is back on the radar. This morning, he is playing a vox-pop clip. In it, a woman is saying she is divorced and that she doesn’t care about …
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Day 6: Conversations Around Privilege
Day 6 opens with gratitude by our 50years+ folks for the amazing facilities at the center; and for the extremely professional doctors, nurses and even ward maids who come …
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Day 5: Alhaji H
The morning opens with vibes. A pleasant nurse smiling down at me as I open my eyes. “How do you feel this morning,” she says. I nod and sit …
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Day 4: A Quick Trip To The Edge
Alhaji A (one the co-patients) sits majestically in the plastic chair by his bed, sipping on piping hot tea in a plastic cup. Nurse Coker walks pasts and this …
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Day 3: A Taste of Prison
This morning, I am weak and my bowel rumbles. Twice I have been to the toilet and it is not even midday yet. Still, this stomach howls and it’s …
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Day 2: Wake Up! It’s A Strange World
To be honest, I do not remember much of everything that happened on day 2. Even now that I think back on it all, it felt like a haze. …
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Day 1 – The Ambulance Ride
The ambulance came for me around 1:21pm. Initially I had been told it’d be here for 11/12noon, but heck! This is Nigeria and we understand how this things work. …
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A UNILAG Love
“When I got into UniLag, I attended an interview to join JCI, that was when I first met the man that would later become my husband. I was in 100 …
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Celebrity Convos – Second Edition
That this edition of #CelebrityConvos is published at such a time as this – when the world is brought to its knees by a tiny, microscopic organism – a virus …
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The Florence Ajimobi Story
1/5 I was born in, what is today, Delta State on the 5th April 1959 to a Nigerian mother and a Lebanese father of the Hajaig family. My mother …
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COVID19Stories – Padova, Italy
“On the 20th February, the Italian government declared a lock-down of my province – Padova. It was one of the first places where the virus began to spread so, …
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Open Secrets
1/5 “If two or more people know about something, it is no longer a secret. That is why I need to tell this story. I was conceived while my …
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A Conversation About Ivanovo
Leaving Nigeria I left Nigeria on October 1 2018. In my heart, I was both excited and anxious. I was excited because I was finally leaving Nigeria and I would …
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The Weeldrop Story
Three months after I was born my mother passed away. My grandmother took me in after the incident and raised me in my early years at Gege, around Agbeni market …
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The Man Who Typed His Way To The Bar
1/5 I was born and brought up in Isero compound at Oja’gbo – Ibadan North East Local Government. It is one of the interior parts of Ibadan where you lived …
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F&K Saving: A Story of Grit, Sweat & Reward
F&K Savings is Ibadan’s leading digital savings platform founded by two upstanding gentlemen – Feyi and Folarin. These two young men are dogged, visionary and innovative. Both are graduates of …
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TESTIMONY: A Pair of New Feet For Adenike
This is the story of Adenike Adebayo, a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. In this first part, Nike’s mother narrates the story of how her legs were amputated at …
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HEKIMA – Procrastination
In the month of October 2011, I was given an opportunity and a special preference to be part of a particular forum that I believed would be good for my …
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The Unrelenting Dreamchaser
I am the first child of my parents. My father worked at NichemTex in Ikorodu while my mom had a shop where she sold provisions. I grew up under a …
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