Just like adults, teenagers are also devastated by the sudden death of people they love. Take for instance when a parent, sibling, friend or relative dies, teenagers find it hard to bear. The loss can have such an […]

Parents are usually devastated when their teenage daughters get pregnant out of wedlock. It’s like the most shameful thing to them, especially in a culture like ours where morality is so loudly preached by all b […]

Every teenager aspires to be gainfully employed someday. And this is understandable because the ability to secure an employment and be able to earn money is the surest avenue to independence. With this in view, it […]

We all come in contact with glass every single day. It is the product used for the window pane in your room, the screen on the device with which you are reading this, and the windshield of the vehicle that must […]

Simply put, idioms are unique expressions peculiar to speakers of given languages which reflect years of accumulated human experiences. By paying closer attention to the idiomatic expressions in a given language, […]

Today, letter writing is almost obsolete; sadly. The very many available digital means of communication have replaced the need for writing letters as people would rather chat with their friends via Facebook/BBM or […]

Everyone knows that teenagers hate to study. I mean come on…the boys just want to play their video games while the girls would rather just read up BellaNaija and be great! Better still, every teen would rather j […]

Except for home-schooled teens, students are typically surrounded by very many classmates. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that every single Nigerian student deals with his or her classmates every school d […]

When you are a teenager growing up with the rest of your siblings at home, it can be easy to decipher whether or not you are your parents’ favourite kid. Agreed, usually the Last Child in every home is, and if y […]

Without doubt, teachers are the best thing to happen to most of us. They are generally caring and nice. But then every now and then, there are always those particular spoilt eggs that simply just spoil the rest […]

There’s no better way to describe the camera than to call it the artificial representation of the human eye. This is so because the functionalities of the Camera are similar, if not the same as those of the h […]

We all know about the Sun, that spherical ball of fire up in the sky which literarily never allows anyone look at it bare-eyed! The Sun is the ultimate star, located in the centre of the Solar System and radiating […]

Typically, Nigerian teenagers become adults the moment they step foot on university campuses. This is so because their parents will neither be there to guide nor to protect them once they are on those campuses. As […]

Students will always have their preferences each time this topic is up for debate. And trust me… this has been the topic of endless debates among many students. But here is the simple truth- it may never really b […]

Morayo used to smile a lot until that particular morning when there was nothing but a frown on her young, pretty face. She was pregnant and her life was almost ruined…
Just a few weeks earlier, Morayo had found […]

DOORS
Closed doors!
They say to me- “you are not welcome here”
Knock knock; would you let me in?
“No please…you’re not one of us!”
Closed doors are all I see!
Like a curse on which spell I’m cast
Why doe […]

Right early on in their lives, boys learn the art of winning the hearts of women. This is usually an interesting for guys, difficult [even] in some cases. So just out of curiosity, I rounded up a few of friends […]

This is may be a very familiar experience for parents of teenage boys- that feeling of being eaten out of your own house by your incessantly hungry teenage sons! It may sound funny now, but the truth is that it […]