Thoughts & Reflections
Thoughts & Reflections
Thoughts & Reflections
Myalgia: Living with Chronic Pain
I’ve been living with chronic pain since being diagnosed with Chronic Myalgia in 2014, and if I must be quite honest, my life has never been the same again. Living with chronic pain makes day-to-day […]
Empowerment
Do Not Give Up!
As things change, one thing will remain. You! Not the same old you, but a different version of you. You will either be dejected and irreparable — clasping at shards of your former self — […]
Empowerment
It’s Okay Not To Have It Together
Towards the end of last year or was it the year before, a particular lady trended on Twitter in Nigeria because she made a thread talking about how she wished she knew early on not […]
Current Affairs
What Can We Make of the Covid19 Days?
It’s a hard time, for all of us and everyone we know. We didn’t see this coming. Since the olden days of World War I and II, (which I have only read or watched movies […]
Thoughts & Reflections
The Five Stages of Grief
DENIAL It was the first few minutes of finding out that you had passed. I was on my way to be buy a de-breather mask that was needed for you. The ward you were admitted […]
Thoughts & Reflections
Fatness Is Not Private
It’s the day after New Year’s Day and you decide to go see a gynaecologist. You do not have a milky discharge, you do not have lower back and abdominal cramps, your period is not […]
Thoughts & Reflections
The Lawyer Whose Mouth Never Moves
I was about 11 years old when I decided that I wanted to and would become a lawyer. My young mind pictured a confident female wearing fashionable suits and formal dresses with high heels, tossing […]
Current Affairs
N.E.S.T: Empowering Asylum Seekers & Refugees
Three weeks ago, at the invitation of Bridget Stratford, I visited North East Solidarity and Teaching (N.E.S.T) – a Newcastle University Students’ Union project. Bridget, who runs this wanted me to meet and share my […]
Culture
What If I Never Find Mr Right?
There might be other issues in the future that some of us are going to need exorcism for in order to comprehend and acknowledge, but I suppose this one doesn’t. Someone once said that “you […]