No fancy lights.
No bright cameras.
No expensive equipments.
Just raw pure undiluted talent.
Some people are incredibly blessed.
Itās so sad how a lot of extremely exceptional people are trapped in Nigeria. One day may we truly have a country where young people have hope and a future.
I donāt even know this person,
But I think they deserve the spotlight one day.
My boyfriend noticed Iād been quiet for a few days and didnāt pressure me to explain. He just started doing small things. He charged my phone when it was low. Filled my water bottle before bed. Sent me āIām hereā texts instead of āwhatās wrongā texts. One night, I finally broke down and told him everything Iād been holding in, and he didnāt interrupt me once. He didnāt try to fix it. He didnāt make it about himself. He just held my hand and listened.
A week later, nothing had changed between us. He didnāt treat me like I was fragile. He didnāt bring it up to use against me. He just loved me the same, steady and normal.
Thatās when I realized real love isnāt loud. Itās safe. It doesnāt rush you. It doesnāt punish you for being human. It stays.
I didnāt call my husband crying.
I called him angry.
It was 11:47 PM. I was sitting on the kitchen floor, laptop open, staring at an email that said my contract wasnāt being renewed. Just like that. Two years of overtime, weekends, skipped holidays ā gone in one paragraph.
When he answered, I didnāt even say hello.āØāI lost my job.ā
Silence. Not the awkward kind. The steady kind.
He said, āOkay. Iām coming home.ā
He was on a night shift. I told him not to. I said I didnāt want him to risk it. I said I was fine.
He said, āYouāre not.ā
Twenty minutes later, I heard the door.
He didnāt try to fix it. Didnāt start giving solutions. Didnāt say, āYouāll find something better.ā Didnāt minimize it.
He just sat on the floor with me.
He ordered food because he knew I hadnāt eaten. He closed my laptop because he knew Iād keep rereading the email. He made a list the next morning not of jobs for me but of bills he could cover alone āfor as long as it takes.ā
The next week, I found out he had quietly moved money from his personal savings into our joint account.
Not because I asked.
Because he anticipated.
Months later, when I apologized for being āa burden,ā he looked genuinely confused.
āWeāre married,ā he said. āThere is no yours and mine when things fall apart. Thereās just us.ā
Thatās when I understood something about marriage.
Itās not about who plans the best anniversary or posts the sweetest captions.
Itās about who sits on the kitchen floor with you when your world collapses.
Itās about who absorbs your panic without adding their own.
Itās about who turns āyour problemā into āour plan.ā
Marriage isnāt loud.
Itās steady.
And when itās real, you donāt have to beg someone to show up.
They already grabbed their keys.
@O_toluwashe@NwaAdaIgbo1 I experienced same thing, but I did not go back, my mum told me to wash with black soap, and it closed up, I canāt imagine going for a second stitch, I will probably pass out from the pain. I wonder why average Nigeria hospital donāt numb before stitching,
Immediately I got married I noticed a trend
Whatever my husband spoke into my life would happen
He didnāt need to be praying when he was saying it
He would just declare it
Shortly after we our court wedding, I lost my Job
Chairman just said āBaby donāt worry, the next job you get you will be paying you higher than you ever earnedā
It happened like film trick.
I had like three job offers the next month and I had to cherry pick
He told me we would apply for your VISA just once and you will get it
Boom! It happened
I kept noticing that and now I donāt joke with his prayers or declarations over my life
As I was meditating on this the holyspirit took my mind to Priesthood
Being a man and being the head of the home is not shouting up and down and bullying your spouse and eating 6 meat inside soup
It is understanding that God has given you an office and if you can wield it positively to push your family in the right direction
The same way Jesus being the head of the church makes sure that the church, His bride has everything needed for it to thrive
You do not need to be a Pastor or hold an official title to operate in this realm
All you need is UNDERSTANDING
Itās like when someone is made Governor or president
Whether the person is tall, short, skinny, no
matter the race or the tribe, as long as that person was sworn in rightly according to laws and traditions,that office has privileges that the person can use and wield
Itās not about the person
Itās about the office
Same thing happens spiritually
The Bible said that ātwo shall put Ten thousand to flightā
Once you have this understanding, you pray different in marriage
You hold hands with your spouse and hell must tremble because two can now do ten times more than before
The Bible says āhe that finds a wife has found good and favourā
It means that by virtue of my marriage, goodness and favour should be constant in my home
My name must not be sister Favour before this happens
If you understand scripture and enter the war room with understanding, you pray different
PS: Read with Understanding!
#womanengraced
We need to tell ourselves some cold truth:
For those who may not know:
Thereās a difference between āinsultā and ādefamationā. Thereās a difference between āabuseā and ādefamationā. Thereās a difference between ātrollingā and ādefamationā.
Under nigerian laws,
Itās NOT a crime to insult, troll, mock, ridicule and abuse someone.
But under nigerian laws,
It is a crime to ādefameā someone.
You can be arrested by the police and you can be charged to court for it. And if you lose, you can go to jail and become an ex-convict.
And under nigerian laws,
You can be sued in a civil court for damages if you defame or slander someone.
So in Nigeria;
Defamation is both a civil issue and a criminal offence.
The person who has been defamed has the right to pursue justice both through the civil courts and can also seek prosecution under the criminal courts.
Now whether the nigerian laws, as they are today, are fair or not is another conversation entirely. But as of today, those are the laws as it stands. And under the nigerian laws, you can be prosecuted by the court and if proven, you will be imprisoned for defamation.
Again,
Please know the difference between insults and defamation. Please know the difference between mockery and defamation. Please know the difference between abuse and defamation.
They are not the same.
If you have a verbal fight with someone online, you can get away with calling them āfoolā āidiotā āuselessā āstupidā, thereās no law criminalising that.
But the moment you say āmurdererā āyou were paid money for so so soā āthey fly you to Dubai and pay you for sexā ākidnapperā etc etc; you cross the line from insult and trolling into defamation.
Defamation is essentially stating a lie (or saying a damaging comment that has no proof) with the intent to damage another personās reputation.
And if what you state is NOT a fact that you can prove, then you have defamed that person and set yourself up for criminal prosecution in Nigeria.
If you live in Nigeria,
Or if you are citizen of Nigeria;
You are subject to nigerian law- no matter what you think of the laws.
Please donāt defame people.
Do not engage in defamation.
You will sleep in prison alone.
You will face the rigor of court alone.
You will have your life destroyed alone.
Nobody edging you on and telling you to ācarry onā will be there when you are slammed with the law regarding your crime.
Defamation is not ācruiseā.
Defamation is not ātrollingā.
Defamation is actually a crime.
Clearly many people living in Nigeria yet using social media for daily discourse seem to be shockingly ignorant of this.
Thereās a simple answer to this issue.
Do not defame people. Please just donāt do it. The repercussions are never worth the temporary retweets you will get.
To be clear:
Arresting anyone for insult, trolling, mockery or catching cruise is oppression. But reporting someone to the police in Nigeria for defamation is the law.
What we can insist and ensure is to tell the police not to brutalise the person and definitely not to hold the person beyond 48hours before charging them to court for their crime.
As I have said,
Please donāt defame people - thinking or hoping that they will not involve the police. Because they may, and they have a right under the law to do so.
What the police donāt have a right to do under nigerian law is to brutalise anyone who is being investigated for a crime (whether the crime is defamation or any other crime). And the police donāt have a right to hold anyone beyond 48hours before they charge them to court.
Anyway in conclusion,
Pls donāt defame people.
Think before you tweet. Think before you talk. Whatever you cannot prove, pls do not ever say it; and pls do not ever tweet it.
You can cause yourself serious criminal prosecution and land in prison if you are taken to court and lose the case.
I wonāt tell you what to do.
I canāt tell you what to do.
Please do whatever you want.
But the law will definitely teach you what not to do.
A couple of months ago, Ola and I were by the kitchen, making dinner. Then, he softly says to me, āI would really appreciate it, if you started taking the time to replace the tissue roll in the bathroom whenever weāre out. Iāve noticed that I seem to always be the one doing that.ā
Of course, my first reaction was to pause⦠in guilt.
For most of my life, I have enjoyed the privilege of knowing myself deeply, unwaveringly, truly. In more recent years, I have also endured the discomfort of losing myself. Sometimes, to make room for something else that I needed to be - other times, because I could not, for the life of me, find my way. I felt like a stranger to myself. This version of me has been the hardest one to look at in the mirror.
Making this album is a symbol of finding parts of myself again that I hoped I hadn't lost permanently. I don't believe that we ever stop finding ourselves. If you're willing to look, there's always more. This is a tribute to the things we continue to find and rediscover.
When I sing, I do it first for me, then for you. In this order, because I can not give what I do not have. "LOST AND FOUND" is about me reclaiming my chemistry with music, melody and love stories. I hope you feel it too when you listen. I hope you enjoy it, regardless of the journey that brought it to you. Experience it, knowing that nobody can bring you, what I can. What I have. What I will.
Glory to God.
LOST AND FOUND, The Album, Out July 5th, 2024.
Yours Truly,
Soft Queen
Lies please
You can choose your fav Uma but donāt lie on her
She even spoke on the choosing
Mimii is never in a competition with Uma š«¢š«¢š«¢. She doesnāt go round asking what Ayo and Uma does. Like she doesnāt care nor see her but only her man #loveisland