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Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC (Part 10)
Tweet Last Tuesday had me getting off a plane in Abuja and having to deal with customs yet again. They wanted me to pay N10,000 (don’t ask me what for cos I definitely didn’t
Read More »Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC – Part 9
Tweet Hello people, How has it been? I know I am a shameful and bad blogger who doesn’t stay faithful to updating the diaries. I really have no valid reasons except not too much
Read More »Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC (Part 8)
Tweet Dear people, I have been soooo bad about updating the diary and I sincerely apologize about that. Feel free to discuss my punishment and we can put it into effect. I have just had the
Read More »Today for You. Tomorrow for Me
Tweet I remember as a little girl of about 7, my dad and mom would have this mini argument where my dad would jokingly say if my mom acted anyhow, he would marry another
Read More »Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC (Part 7)
Tweet Being a goody-two –shoes never pays off but I can’t help who I am. So on my first day of work, I was petrified because I was about 10 minutes late. I walked
Read More »Diary of a Yankee babe doing NYSC (Part 6)
Tweet Early Monday morning, after a weekend resting and trying to wash away the grimes of camp, I was back in my khakis and out and about again. I had my posting letter in
Read More »Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC (Part 5)
Tweet Week 3 At the 5am parade, before we began marching, we were informed that because Sallah is next week Tuesday (Nov 16th) and we would need good amount of time to go to
Read More »Diary of a Yankee babe doing NYSC (Part 4)
Tweet Week 2 I lost my voice by Saturday and still presented a play with that. I also had a play to present the Sunday afterwards. It was at church … well NCCF (National
Read More »Diary of a Yankee babe doing NYSC (Part 3)
Tweet Pre Note – It took me a while to get online and see the second diary post and reactions to it. That’s why I didn’t respond to people’s comments. Please remember that this
Read More »Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC (Part 2)
Tweet Weeks 2-4 Nothing big really happened during these weeks, I just did a lot of resting and hanging out and checking a few sights in Abuja. From there I went to visit some
Read More »Diary of a Yankee Babe doing NYSC (Part 1)
Tweet 1 week before leaving - Babe! Why do you want to go and serve in Nigeria? Do you know how long you have been away from that place and now you want to
Read More »Nigeria at 50 – What Are We Celebrating?
Tweet I have had a lot of mixed feelings about the 50th celebration that has been going on in Nigeria and the diaspora. Now not saying i won”t go to a party that is
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