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NNEKA ( Mother is Great)

                     Photo Credit: Fume Fasoyin.                            A fish seller     Mothers are supreme, there is no arguing that. I recently visited to Mushin market in Lagos and for the first it hit me. Alot of women selling their wares,  either had babies sitting on their backs or toddlers back from school playing beside their wares. I stopped for a second to do a head count and realised not one man had an infant or a child beside him. Now this made me smile. It strengthened for me, the resolve that women are phenomenal beings. Don't get me wrong men are special too, just that women are....... there are too many words. For a no matter where a woman works, her children will someday find their way there probably because she is primarily a care giver. It is rare to see men take their children to their places of business. If this happe...

SENSITIVE MUSINGS

On the eve of valentine’s day a few years ago, i was dating this perfect bloke, the complete package TDH. Tall, dark and handsome, he was the "love of my life" so i thought. On this day, my so called love told me he doesn’t celebrate Valentine, but he bought me a pack of wafers biscuit (no be joke o!), because he knew I celebrated it.  The following day, i was so happy that I went all out and bought a picture frame, a Kenneth Cole Black perfume, a family size towel and a Manchester united Wall clock cause he was a fan. I also bought him a beautiful key holder. Please don't blame me, when someone meets you for the first time and tells you "am stuck on you like white on rice" you tend to go weak in the knees and be at their beck and call (lmao..... no be only) when I was done with my shopping i went home to carefully wrap each item while imagining his expression as he opens them. Smiling all day, i had a shower, put on my lovely LBD (...