I lost my dad in an accident on the 5th of June, 2019. I was in school when I got the call to come home immediately.
LECTURING JOB? MAYBE IN AN ALTERNATE WORLD
As a first-class graduate from the University of Ibadan’s department of History, the potentials are there.
MECHANIC WORK IS ALL ABOUT TRUST
When we see that a customer does not like to deal fairly, next time they come, we will also start telling them lies.
I NO BE SALT
15 years ago, a bag of corn was 1,000 Naira. But now, the same bag is between 18,000 and 20,000 Naira.
LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD TO NAVIGATE
The last time I saw my husband was in September 2022 at the airport. A lot of the changes we went through over the past one to two years have been separate.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
When I first got to the UK in 2021, I landed in Chelmsford. I moved to London a year later, after I got my degree.
AN IMMIGRANT DIED BECAUSE OF COLD
Education here is expensive, especially for international students. My friends doing undergraduate programmes at the University of Alberta pay 50,000 CAD every single year.
THOUGHT I WOULD BE DEPORTED
Starting around 2018, my mom desperately wanted me to leave Nigeria. She would go to Poly Road and follow up with agents.
RETHINKING MY FUTURE IN NIGERIA
The first time I considered Japa was in 2018, when I graduated. I was the second person in the history of the Department of History to finish with a first class.
GERMANS COMPLAIN A LOT
Families here get child support from the government. It’s not like that in Nigeria.