In Lagos, it is only Ikorodu people that can tell you how it feels to live in fear that you can be attacked by bandits at anytime.
During the days of Badoo, people died. It was when they killed in a church at Owode weighbridge side that’s 12km away from Ikorodu, 5km away from Ketu, that’s when I realized it’s closer home. I couldn’t sleep that night. My house didn’t have a fence. Every sound was a wake up sound. I was locking up windows and dying inside heat for days 😭.
Now imagine people living in bandit prone areas. That we are holding phones to type and laugh is now a privilege some people wish they have. A government that cannot secure us shouldn’t stay. Let Tinubu go, he has done absolutely nothing.
Let me tell you about the picture in Frame 1.
In August 2017, as a litigation lawyer in Lagos, I had work to do that required me to be at the office during the weekend.
There was only one problem that weekend.
I had a 16 months old son, no nanny and no one to leave him with at home so I asked my boss if I could bring him with me and she was gracious enough to agree. While I was working, my son fell asleep and I had to lay him down on the floor beside my table.
In that moment, I took a picture of him sleeping and made a promise to myself that if I ever had my own firm, at some point in that journey, no woman working with me who had a caregiver emergency and needs to be at work will have to lay her baby on the floor.
That same day, I thought of my struggles as a breastfeeding mother in the workplace and promised again that no woman working with me who had a baby will ever have to struggle for a private space to use her breast pump at work, relieve her aching breast to focus and save some quality milk for her baby.
Frame 2
Today, we finished the renovation of our office building complete with a nursing room.
Litigation is tough for women.
The firm should not make it tougher.
Strichland LP has a nursing room and today, by the grace of God, I kept that promise.
❤️
#WomenInLitigation
I dated a proud bastard once and I’ll never do it again. PART 1
He was a manager at one of the hot new ride-hailing companies in Nigeria at the time. I thought I had found a responsible man.
Spoiler alert: I had not. 🫠
Let me tell you about our first (and last) few dates. 👇🏾