I came to Funaab as a boy and I am leaving as a man that has seen lots of sheges but not giving up. 5 years course turned 7 years (2016-2023) Happy Convocation to me 🎉🎉🎉
#FUNAAB30thConvocation
All relationships can survive mistakes, but they cannot survive patterns. Repeated behavior isn't a mistake, it's a decision, apologies lose meaning when the actions never change
It's 8:30 PM on a Wednesday. Tunde just walked into the house after spending two freaking hours in traffic on Third Mainland Bridge. He is exhausted, his shirt is soaked in sweat, and he just wants to drop his bag and drink some cold water.
Kemi is in the living room, fanning herself because there is no light. She looks at Tunde, then looks at his empty hands. He forgot to buy the petrol for the generator, which he promised he would pick up on his way home.
If Kemi was just angry or frustrated, she would complain. She might say, "Tunde, ah-ah! I reminded you about this fuel this morning. Now we have to sleep in this heat, and the food in the freezer will spoil. I am really upset." That is a normal complaint. It focuses on the mistake and how it affects her.
But contempt is different. Contempt doesn't attack the mistake... it attacks the person.
Instead of complaining, Kemi hisses loudly, rolls her eyes, and looks at him with pure disgust.
"You cannot even remember to buy ordinary fuel. Is it until I write it on your forehead? I don't even know why I expect anything from you. It's like living with another child. You are completely useless when it comes to taking simple responsibility."
Tunde freezes. He knows he messed up. He doesn't feel like a partner who made a mistake... he feels like a foolish schoolboy being scolded by his headmistress. His pride is crushed. Instead of going out to find fuel, he gets defensive, hisses back, and walks into the bedroom, slamming the door.
Contempt doesn't ruin a marriage in one day.
It is a slow leak. Day by day, insult by insult, it drains away all the love, respect, and friendship until there is nothing left.
When I'm with a woman the only reason I don't bother myself about other men hitting on her or trying to get her attention is because I know how harsh, rude, insultive and disrespectful a typical Nigerian woman can be to a man if he is bugging her and she is not interested in him or doesn't find him attractive.
Nigerian women I know won't even reply your chats sef.
For real life, she go use bad mouth finish you.
You go dey talk say that girl dey too rude but you no go know say na because of one man like that.
I swear to you.
So if any man is flirting or actually making progress in his advances with my woman, she's the one who allowed it to happen cos that's exactly what she wants.
It's as simple as that.
I read a story one time that completely changed my perspective on what it actually means for a woman to protect her relationship. It wasn’t about checking his phone or fighting off other women; it was about protecting her relationship from the toxic advice of her own inner circle.
The story was about a woman who had been with her partner for a few years. They had a healthy, peaceful, and solid relationship. But the woman had a close female friend, someone who was perpetually single and constantly unhappy with her own dating life, who slowly started dropping little seeds of poison into the mix.
It was never outright hostility. It was that sneaky, subtle manipulation masked as "just looking out for you" and "knowing your worth."
It was the little comments. "Are you really staying in to cook for him again? You're acting like a married woman while still a girlfriend's" or "I'm just saying, if he really wanted to, he would have taken you to Dubai for your birthday like Sarah’s man did."
It was a slow, calculated drip of negativity designed to make the woman feel like her peaceful relationship was actually a cage of mediocrity, purely because the friend was miserable and wanted a partner in her misery.
One weekend, they were all out at a brunch. The boyfriend stepped away to take a phone call, and the friend finally got a little too comfortable. She leaned over, rolled her eyes, and said, "I seriously don't know how you deal with him being so incredibly average. You are way too pretty to be with a guy who isn't fully funding your entire lifestyle. You're settling."
The author of the post said the girlfriend didn't laugh or gently change the subject to avoid making it awkward.
She looked her friend dead in the eye and said, "The man you are talking about is my peace, my biggest supporter, and my family. He treats me with absolute respect, and we are building a life together. The only reason you think I'm 'settling' is because your entire concept of love is transactional, which is exactly why you're constantly exhausted and alone. You will never disrespect my man in front of me again. If you have a problem with him, we can end this friendship right now."
The friend was completely stunned. She immediately tried to backpedal, saying it was just a joke and she was "just being a girl's girl," but the damage was done. The girlfriend paid her half of the tab, waited for her boyfriend to walk back inside, and they left.
The most beautiful part of the story? The girlfriend never even told her man what happened at the table. She didn't run to him to brag about defending his honor to get points. She just quietly, permanently cut the friend off. He only found out months later when a mutual friend mentioned how fiercely she had defended his name.
It hits so hard because it highlights a brutal truth: A massive percentage of good relationships don't fail because of what happens inside the house; they fail because they are poisoned by the people outside of it. Misery loves company, and deeply unhappy friends will actively try to sabotage your peace under the guise of "empowerment."
Husband has two laptops
One was given to him as a Work from home tool by the foreign bank he is working with
The other was his personal laptop with him he handles his personal business.
Wife’s father died in Nigeria
Husband was not given leave at work to travel abroad
Wife was as given compassionate leave
Wife pleads with husband to please show his face at the funeral
Husband decided to take the risk
He mirrored the office laptop to his personal laptop
Left it connected in such a way that he can work on it remotely using his personal computer and travelled with the family to Nigeria for work
Wife was aware of the risk the husband took
The plan was to travel to Nigeria on Friday and return to London on Sunday
They got to Nigeria
The husband set up his personal laptop at the hotel so that if any work call or email comes in he would attend to it immediately
It worked
He was able to work remotely and he was in the UK on Saturday morning
After this he went to the burial rites, greeted members of the family and paid his respects to all and sundry
When he got back to their room he discovered his laptop was gone
It was not stolen
He could see from all the disconnections and wires lying around that his wife took it
He rushed to the car and drove furiously to the wife’s parent’s house to ask her for his laptop
When he got there, he saw that his wife had handed it over to her older brother who had connected it to some amplifiers to play some of their father’s Fåvourite music to entertain her family
He didn’t think it would be proper to disrupt such a solemn family moment
So he went back to the hotel and waited anxiously for them to be done and for his laptop to be returned.
At almost midnight, the laptop was returned
By then the husband has gotten two messages from his team lead asking him where he was because he missed some tasks and his laptop indicated that he was in Nigeria
He reconnected his laptop and tried very hard to do some damage control.
He was livid and he didn’t fail to say so to his wife
According to the wife he said “You betrayed my trust, you took my work computer without regards for my sacrifices and well being to play music in loving memory of your father. You could have hired a DJ or bought a laptop somewhere in Lagos.
You knew the risk I took to be at this event with you and you decide to expose me this way.
You better pray I don’t lose my job over this. If I as much as get a query, this marriage is over”
Wife said she didn’t think that far.
Her brother asked her if she brought her laptop because he had carefully made a selection of their father’s Fåvourite songs on a flash drive and would like to play it at the house after the funeral while his friends and family member were still around to commiserate with their mother.
She said she went to the room to see if she could borrow her husband’s laptop and met his absence. So she just took it.
Innocent mistake.
They got back to the UK and husband’s job was terminated.
Husband is asking for a divorce
Wife is saying jobs are replaceable, a marriage is not.
How can an innocent mistake be the cause of their divorce?
Husband says the wife has always been like that
Lacking an understanding of boundaries and willing to throw anybody under the bus to get her desired result in anything she wanted to do.
He had told her he couldn’t travel because his office didn’t permit him
She prevailed on him to take the risk and then destroyed his carefully built wall of protection by removing the laptop from its connection
Wife said she didn’t intend to do any harm.
Just to play some music with the laptop
Husband said wife is deflecting and moved out of their apartment
Wife is asking what the big deal is…
For more than ten years, I remember entering public transport with my girlfriend, carrying little but sharing everything. We counted coins, waited at bus-stops, dealt with Sapa, diligently applied ourselves, and dreamed quietly about what life could become. Time moved, seasons changed, and love stayed.
Today, she is my wife. We move in our car and in the back seat is our child as a living reminder of all those ordinary days that built this life.
We stayed, we fought, we worked, we laughed, we complained, and we believed. We didn’t allow anyone to steal what we had with money, influence or whatever it is they thought either of us could be stolen with.
In all honesty, it’s an experience that cannot be bought with money.
And when I look back, all it truly took was consideration and genuine desire.
Many times, love is enough when the parties concerned want it to be enough.
Still far from where we want to be, but we thank God for how far He’s brought us.
2017 2026
“…instead of sleeping with men.”
Isn’t it funny how many women believe that if they decide to “open their legs” today, they will be swimming in unlimited wealth? 😂😂😂
The baddies and hoes you see flying private jets and tearing Birkin bags, do you think they just stumbled upon that level of access? For you to meet the level of men who can afford to buy you a house in Ikoyi, fly you out to Dubai, and change your life still requires connection, and having a pussy just isn’t enough. Again, you people don’t even realize how strenuous prostitution is as a job. Do you think it is easy to sleep with different men you don’t have feelings for? Do you know the level of humiliation and physical abuse they face?
Imagine when a guy pays a hookup babe 200k for a night, how do you think he is going to treat her? He may not even allow her to close her eyes and sleep throughout the night. He will likely take the greatest concoctions ever known to mankind just to last till eternity and get value for his money.
I really laugh it off when some women believe that if they decide to open their legs, their life problems are solved and they are made for life. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you may sleep around and still struggle financially. You can only attract men at your level. The kind of cleanup you would need to start attracting top men, the money alone would have been enough to set you up and start a legitimate business for yourself.
Why do you think most of these babes rush to BBNaija? It’s for positioning. Why do you think they do BBL, move to the Island, and clean up their skin?
My dear, if you like, don’t fetch water for people in the hostel or do other legitimate hustles just to get by until hunger finishes you. If opening your legs would solve all your problems like you already believe, what’s stopping you from opening them?
The hardest pill for women to swallow is that average men love us far more unconditionally than we love them. A regular guy making a standard wage will gladly date a woman with zero income, pay for her meals, and support her dreams without ever making her feel inadequate. But the exact second an average-earning man loses his job or hits a financial rough patch, a massive percentage of women instantly lose respect and look for an exit. We demand unconditional loyalty, but only offer conditional love.