15 Interesting Nuggets about Oral Hygiene
Our mouths help keep us alive, and happy. We eat and drink the delicious stuff, we talk, kiss, and do a host of other things with our mouths. Unsurprisingly then, oral hygiene is right up there on the list of daily concerns, and rightly so. Here are 15 things you may or may not have […]
Are You Ready To Start A Small Business?
Starting a small business is not a walk in the park, especially in Nigeria; a chat with any Nigerian entrepreneur will quickly reveal this. In spite of the many challenges, small businesses continue to spring up daily, and Connect Nigeria continues to support SMEs across Nigeria, recognizing the invaluable role they play in the economy. […]
Naija Voice: Madam, That Your House Girl Na Person Pikin
Madam, We know say the story wey we dey hear na story of how house maid dey wicked, how dem dey use bad pay their madam wey do good for dem, or how dem dey carry bad belle from their former working place come dey wicked the new family. Na dat one dey make you […]
Life Lessons I Learnt While Playing Hearts
I haven’t played Hearts in many years, but back when I had a computer with the game on it, it was one of my favourite pastimes. I played it so much and recorded so many wins and losses that as usual, I began to glean life lessons from it. Here are a few of those […]
10 Things Every Fitness Buff Knows
When it comes to staying fit and healthy, nobody is born with special abilities. Every one of us can take care of our bodies; it just requires knowledge. What you know makes a huge difference in life, and it’s the same with fitness and wellness. Here are a few things a true fitness buff knows […]
I’m Too Lazy to Have a Fantastic Marriage
Yes, I’m too lazy. I don’t have the energy and this is why my marriage is “good”. Sure, there are people with great marriages but those ones have two heads, you just can’t see the other one with your physical eyes. Someone once likened a great marriage to ducks swimming, smooth and effortless on top […]
This Is The First Step To A Successful Writing Career
Many things go into a successful writing career. However, none of them is as important as this one thing: finding your writing voice. “As a writer, you are a brand.” Finding your voice is a long-term endeavour that demands discipline and rigour. I wish I had started that journey early enough. It would have saved […]
The Best Way to Use Social Media
There is no doubt that social media has changed the way we communicate, and the way we live. From business transactions to romantic connections and everything in between, social media defines this generation. Many of us can remember the early days of Yahoo Messenger. It was such a thrill to enter a chat room and start […]
Is Morning Devotion Still a Thing?
As young believers, one of the first disciplines we learnt was that of starting the day with God. Many of us were introduced to this in the form of family devotions, which often proved to be a major thorn in the flesh because most times we still wanted to sleep, and sometimes we couldn’t really […]
Is It Wrong to Want Wealth?
I recently realized that one of the reasons I’m not yet wealthy is that I have never wanted to be. Not that God doesn’t want to bless me, not that Nigeria is hard, just that I never opened myself up to wealth. Do you really want to be wealthy? This sounds like a question to […]
Personal Finance: 7 Things We Know We Should Be Doing, But Aren’t
We know how in marriage, life and laziness get in the way of applying the knowledge that we have. Interestingly, the same thing happens when it comes to personal finance; we acquire tons of knowledge but how much of it do we apply? Here are a few personal finance basics, few people take their time […]
5 Minutes with Dr. Olamide Craig, Co-Founder, SuruLereLove
Professionally, Dr. Olamide Craig describes himself as both a pastor and a physician. He went to medical school at the University of Ibadan and graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree. After this, he completed his internship at the National Hospital in Abuja, and went on to receive a […]
Proverbs 31 Babe: The Virtue of Waking Up Early
“She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day’s work…” Proverbs 31:15 I’m an owl. Naturally, I do my best work when I’m at my desk late into the night, and in the mornings, I prefer to sleep in. There is nothing wrong with this, per se; after all, we […]
Proverbs 31 Babe: Why You Must Have Your Own Money
Two women were having a discussion at a hair salon recently, and it got pretty heated. The younger woman did not see anything wrong with her not being engaged in any profitable enterprise, but that was not what surprised the older woman, who insisted that it wasn’t wise for the family to depend on one partner’s income, and it […]
Proverbs 31 Babe: 7 Reasons You Must Have Help at Home
“She gets up… [to] plan the day’s work for her servant girls.” Proverbs 31:15 A wise person once said, “A wife’s duty is not to do all the chores; it is to ensure that all the chores get done.” This is even truer for the wife who works. If you’re a wife and mother, who […]
Where Do Busybodies Really Come From?
Children, especially when they are very young, don’t understand boundaries. They feel free to ask any and every question that comes to mind, and to give their opinion on whatever subject, regardless of who is involved. It is in the process of training a child that boundaries are taught. Thus, the child learns that it […]