Vaccinate me

When I was last in Nigeria, I was up to date on my vaccinations for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) and Tetanus/Diphtheria, thanks to the school vaccination program. So when we went to the travel medicine clinic back then, they gave us a prescription for malaria pills and sent us on our way.
This time, when [...]

Adventures dealing with the HC

I am lucky that I work close to the High Commission (HC). Some guy I met there had flown in from one of the neighbouring cities to drop off one of his documents (I don’t blame him; you don’t want to lose these important documents and have to go through the trouble of getting them [...]

Girl of honour

I’ve been remiss in thanking a couple of ladies in the blogosphere for the honour they’ve bestowed on me. First it was the lovely aloted babe who gifted me with the award, then Favoured Girl, and lastly (but not least!) NoLimit.
All three of these fine women thought my blog was worthy of the Certified Honest [...]

On my crowning glory

I relax my hair (why do we also call it perming ?), and have done so for about 12 years. At first, my mom used to do it using those kits you can buy and all was well. Then I started going to a salon and that’s when the trouble started.
My scalp. It gets burned. [...]

Does Good Naija Girl hate Nigeria?

One of my friends, a fellow Nigerian, asked me last week why I’m going to Nigeria. I told her the event that would be taking place while we are there, and she followed up her question with
u hate nigeria
She then asked me to list three good things that had happened to me in [...]

On answering cries for help

On my last entry, Oluwadee our newly married blogger, left the following comment:
Since i put my email addy on my blog, I have been getting a lot of emails asking for my help. I dont bother reading them.
and I think I’m going to follow her lead.
While I can tell a reader not to heed the [...]

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