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by Pelumi Shittu What do you do when you miss a loved one? What do you do when you sorrowfully ...
by Ado Aminu My mother, if she remembers this incident [from what I shared yesterday], might muse not without a ...
by Damola Morenikeji One treasured part of the work we do at Joy, Inc. is the ease at which people find ...
by Avviva Oluwaseun There’s an innate need in everyone to dominate. I believe it’s the foundation of all human conflict, the ...
“Good things happen to good people” You have heard that before, haven’t you? So, what do you do when life ...
by Fatima Allahnanan Mohammed I can never forget my first encounter with “Miss Red”. She showed up in red, the ...
by Fatima Allahnanan “You shouldn’t have given it to him!” That was the reply I got when I sent the gateman ...
I don’t believe that time alone heals all things. I think that time meets our decisions, the environment, and aspirations ...
by Ore Fakorede There’s a foolish pride in pushing ourselves as far as we think we can go. The thing is, ...
by Arit Okpo Woke up feeling grey… Spirit itchy… upset and not sure why. I take the time to think through ...
We seem to have a consensus that success is defined differently by each person, and what we all consider important ...
by Avviva Oluwaseun Is there really room to stop and smell the roses when the end of the road isn’t ...
by Avviva Oluwaseun I feel trapped. I feel like I’m being held to a high standard, but it has to ...
by Paul Jarvis In Sanskrit, there’s a term called ‘Mudita,’ and there’s no equivalent word in English. Essentially, it means ...
(by Paul Jarvis) Exterior mindfulness (some call it minimalism) only works when we solve for enough. It’s not just a ...
Does it truly need to be written the way you have? Right before you send the next email, go through ...
(by Ado Aminu) This is how you do life, You cry until you don’t anymore, You carry the weight of ...
I had just returned from a series of meetings and was physically exhausted. I felt like I was sleep-deprived and ...
by Chidiogo Akunyili Do you remember me? I can be heard in silence. I can be felt in breath. I ...
by Moyinoluwa Okunloye Why this happens, I still don’t know. You wake up early in the morning and you are ...
by Oluseun Onigbide This powerful paragraph from Autobiography of Martin Luther King, one of my favourite books creates leaps of joy ...
by Faith I had the opportunity to attend the Ivy League of all Ivy Leagues. Imaginably, I was thrilled to ...
by Damola Morenikeji Yesterday, as I laid on the bed, after meditating, I started thinking of the person I am ...
by Ore Fakorede It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that it’s always up to me to decide what to ...
by Jonathan Brakarsh Most of us are striving to be stronger, smarter, cooler, richer, more beautiful and many other things. ...
contributed by Kui Wamithi The more I proceed through this journey called life, the more I learn that people need ...
(contributed by Francesca Onomarie Uriri) Recently, my brother had a health challenge that was frightening, debilitating, and quite frankly, difficult ...
The past few days a strange cloud has hovered my spirit. I struggled to report to work and when I ...
When I came out of secondary (high) school in 2000, I was 15. That meant that, though I had excellent ...