Just came across the story online of a Nigerian man reportedly travelled all the way from the UK to Nigeria with his wife and baby for a brief visit. But after spending just a few days, he flew right back to the UK leaving his wife and baby behind in Nigeria. And as if stranding them wasn't bad enough, he allegedly took their passports with him!
Incase you don’t know your life expectancy as a man living in Nigeria is 54yrs, there you are a 30yrs old man and you are still waiting for millions to get married and start having kids?
Let’s say you finally got married at 35yrs and start having kids at 36yrs in the next 20yrs you are already at 56yrs and your first child is barely 20yrs.
Only a few of us might even get to be grand parents in this generation and it’s so sad.
It’s very sad.
What goes around always comes around…no matter how long it’d take, it must come around.
Be kind to people as much as you can.
When you can’t be of help or when you choose not to help, use kind words to decline such requests.
Someone said that life is like a parade ground, at the shout of “about turn”, whoever is first becomes the last and whoever is last becomes the first.
Power, wealth, and even influence are transient; you may have them today and lose them tomorrow.
My uncle asked my elder brother for ₦700,000, but my brother told him he didn’t have the money.
When my uncle listed his land for sale so he could raise the money, my brother went behind his back and used a third party to buy it.
When my uncle discovered that my elder brother was the one who bought the land, he confronted him, saying, “You claimed you didn’t have money to give me, yet you had money to buy only my land.”
He reminded my uncle of the time when he was doing well financially and he asked him for money, but he refused.
He then made my elder brother work in his poultry farm for four months before finally giving him ₦90,000 in 2021.
My uncle asked my elder brother for ₦700,000, but my brother told him he didn’t have the money.
When my uncle listed his land for sale so he could raise the money, my brother went behind his back and used a third party to buy it.
When my uncle discovered that my elder brother was the one who bought the land, he confronted him, saying, “You claimed you didn’t have money to give me, yet you had money to buy only my land.”
He reminded my uncle of the time when he was doing well financially and he asked him for money, but he refused.
He then made my elder brother work in his poultry farm for four months before finally giving him ₦90,000 in 2021.
@RejoiceCherechi@AlgoKris@VikyInsights There is no such thing as “Igbo wife”
A wife is a wife, tradition is tradition and in every tradition, every men and women have their roles on issues like this
All of them should go and sit down somewhere with that capping of “chances of getting married to someone will reduce when you cohabit”
I started cohabitating from month one. She visits her parents from my house, we attended all family functions from my house, her nephews come for weekends and holidays in my house.
Sorry, I should say “our house” because we rented and furnished it together so that we can cohabit conveniently
Infact, oga landlord only agreed to rent to me when I whispered to him that I was renting so as to cohabit with my babe and we’d marry soon.
Her parents knew she had packed in with a man and frowned at it, but at the same time, they throway face. My own people knew I was cohabiting with a woman and gave their unreserved approval…na man I be.
Na so we run am until the day we got married.
Cohabitation is supposed to help you know your partner better, see them for who they really are, understand their emotions and learn how to deal with each other.
But most of you enter relationships with an exit plan already in place. No patience, no commitment, no willingness to work through anything.
Any small inconvenience you’re already thinking of leaving. How do you people expect to build anything meaningful like that?
Same thing they said wives
They said when you see your wife too much,you will get tired of her
Abeg,woman no Dey tire for man too?🫠
If you refuse to cohabit,they’ll say you’re hiding something. Oya cohabit, chances of him not marrying increases.
Even polygamists get tired
Same thing they said wives
They said when you see your wife too much,you will get tired of her
Abeg,woman no Dey tire for man too?🫠
If you refuse to cohabit,they’ll say you’re hiding something. Oya cohabit, chances of him not marrying increases.
Even polygamists get tired
@DurojaiyeSegun Sir,
There is nothing that’d make you get over the demise of a loved one so easily…if you like pack to Jupiter
Seeing the grave everyday or not seeing it would make no difference!
Some marriages seem so peaceful, yet they are unhealthy.
In some marriages, the spouses share laughter only on Sunday mornings, when they are putting up a front for the neighbours on their way to church.
Everybody at church says, "Ah, those two? They never quarrel." But they don't know that the couple has mastered the art of friction control.
I once read on X about a couple who fought over which end of the toothpaste to press. One pressed from the middle, and the other said it should be pressed from the end.
I know women who almost run mad when their husbands fling their socks, towels and wet clothes all over the room. It makes me laugh too, because I once got mad over something similar. Only, I was the one doing the flinging then.
Only those with tiny angels can understand that phase.
But the thing about these couples is that they are at least talking. Something irritates one person, they say so, and the other person hears it and adjusts.
The ones to worry about are the couples who never fight at all.
During one of my salon visits, a woman mentioned that she had never had a disagreement with her husband in all her decades of marriage. She said whatever he does is his business, and she won't bother him. That unsettled me, because there is no way there won't be things to fix.
To me, that is more like distance.
I have realised that some couples don't fight because they have learnt to communicate effectively. Others don't fight because one person has learnt to swallow everything.
Maybe they are just tired.
That silent partner has stopped mentioning the flung towel, the careless joke, the subtle body shaming after childbirth, the forgotten birthday, the decision made without them.
You just hear things like, "It's fine," and "I don't want trouble."
The house stays quiet. The children see a calm home. Visitors see a happy couple. The church sees a family worthy of emulation.
But that silent partner is like a pot of water on a low fire. It isn't boiling, but it is never off, and it is getting hotter every year.
Peace in the home is not the absence of disagreement. Sometimes it is the absence of permission to disagree.
A healthy marriage should have room for two people to say, "I don't like this," "You hurt me," or "I see this differently," without the relationship immediately becoming a battlefield.
Two adults should be able to disagree on Monday and still share a meal on Monday night. In fact, you should be able to disagree in the morning and still bathe together and lie next to each other at night.
If the peace in your home requires one person to permanently silence themselves, you have left the realm of peace and moved into emotional suppression.
The ugly thing about this suppression is that the silent one usually doesn't stay silent forever. Some go cold and stop caring. Some go distant and start living like roommates. Some finally explode over something as small as a missing spoon, and everybody asks, "Where is all this coming from?"
It was coming from years of things they were never allowed to say.
It is important to know that keeping quiet is not always safe, and that the feelings you express are not noise.
And to the spouse who is always comfortable: make it a point to find out why your partner is so quiet. Is it because they have nothing to say, or because they have learnt it is not safe to say it?
A marriage should not feel like a house where everybody walks on tiptoe.
Your marriage should feel like home.
Pastor Ibiyiomie Telling struggling families not to buy Christmas clothes before paying tithes raises an important question.
Should giving to God be taught through fear of hardship?
The same Bible that teaches generosity also teaches family responsibility (1 Timothy 5:8).
Church leaders should teach giving with wisdom and compassion, not make struggling parents feel guilty for meeting their children’s needs.
Faith should inspire generosity, not create fear.
I really can’t bring myself to listen to some of these young boys who got into ministry.
Just listen to his takes, so childish and immature!
I used to have this argument with other kids when I was in primary school, and a leader of a congregation is still having that same argument in 2026?
God is not in any religion!
God is too big to be trapped into one religion, he created the world and everything there in. But somehow you believe he loves you more than the others? Because you are a Christian?
People need to know God for themselves and stop listening to these men.