The trick to life is to learn to LIVE with the cards you are dealt (Glory Edozien 2010). I am not much of a card player. As a matter of fact, I can hardly shuffle a deck of cards without the whole pack collapsing and falling to the floor. But I think there is something to be said about card…
Every woman is a Gold digger. We just use different tools, some use cranes, some tractors, others straws and the rest, spoons. (Glory Edozien, 2009) The above statement was once my facebook status message and I sincerely doubt that my profile page has been any busier after that day. When I was younger I believed in unconditional love. I dated…
There is a general misconception that every single woman is praying day and night, for a spouse. This is incorrect. Personally, I find myself praying more about my career and bank account balance than I do about a potential life partner. This isn’t an article about how I don’t need a man or how men aren’t important. Truth be told,…
Two weeks ago I went for the 9:30 services at House on the Rock, where Pastor Paul Adefarasin was preaching the second series on Passion, Purpose and Purity. It was exactly where I need to be and what I needed to hear. He said something I have always known and had somehow negated to the back of my mind. All…
Every girl likes to get dressed up! and I am definitely no exception! I toyed with the idea of what the theme should be for the Inspire Series inaugural Photo Shoot and I finally came up with Pray, Love, Live…be Inspired! Not the most original of tag lines I know…but poignant all the same. Unfortunately, I didn’t wake up like…
When I read her book ‘Secrets of an Irresistible Woman’ in 2004, I never knew, I’d one day be sitting across the room from her. But just like fate, there we were at her Oriental hotel suite over looking the Lagos marina, me with my dictaphone careful to angle my device to catch each word and she cross legged on…
Hafsat Abiola Costello, is the daughter of Chief Moshood and Kudirat Abiola. These are names that will very likely remain etched in Nigeria’s fight for democracy. Despite the nature and cause of her parents death, Hafsat has continued to speak openly about democracy in Nigeria. The legacy of her parents will remain forever ingrained in Nigeria’s history. But rather than…
Yesterday I bumped into an old friend who got married in June last year. As we chatted he told me he’d be missing his first Valentine’s Day as a married man because he’d be out of town on business. As our conversation continued, I realised he hadn’t even gotten her a gift and was hoping to buy something on his…
