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Mother’s Day Special

Some say life is the best teacher but I disagree because they haven’t met my mother. My mother is a teacher of compassion, love, fearlessness & bravery. My mother is an angel, her love is the veil of a softer light between the heart & the Heavenly Father. The role our mothers play in our life can never be overemphasised and we pray they all reap the fruit of their labour.

Here’s what some special people had to say about their mother.

My mum is a very principled person, very sensitive calm and not much of a talker. She is the true definition of a Proverbs 31 woman. Flashback to August 2015, I was very ill and was bed ridden for months. My mum literarily put her business on hold just to take care of me. There were times I would catch her crying and I would hold her hands to assure her nothing would happen to me. I love adore her so much. She will always emerge in my dreams. – Todimu Ogunade

Wow,it’s been 23years life took my mother from us, life is so unfair,I don’t know what it looks like having a mother, but my dad made life so beautiful and easy. He played the role of a mother & father at the same time. He taught me everything a mother should teach her child,what a Strong man! Daddy thank you for being my mum all these years,I couldn’t av asked for a better Dad because I got the best one.I miss you everyday mum.Rest on Happy Mother’s Day – Adebomi Bukola

“Beautiful is Your Name, Wonderful is what you are to me”…

I know no one can pray for me like my Mother, No one knows an empty friend better than my Mother, My Birth canal through which I was delivered into this world, The only person who understood me when I couldn’t put words together, The first person to feed me, not from the kitchen but from her body, My first teacher, My First friend…. I was your handbag everywhere!… The first person that saw my mess as her mess! Happy Mother’s Day Omoge mi… I love you to the moon and back….- Sola Ajisegbede

My mother is undoubtedly the most amazing person I have ever met in my entire life. She’s an embodiment of beauty, love and care. She’s always embedded in me the need to be human first before every other role attributed to me. – Ademola Adeyemi

When I’m hopeless,she say things that will get me back on my feet. .My mama,my backbone,my prayer warrior. Thank you for the foundation you built for my siblings & I. Thank you mama and may you continue to reap the fruit of your labor.I love you endlessly ❤️– Ayo Olaniyi

“Right from the start, you were the one who nurtured me, prayed over me, worried about me, guided me and supported me in every pursuit. Thank you for being there every day with just the love I needed.” Happy Mother’s Day mummy – Louis Dike

“Who is your role model?”

A question fondly asked by people to children. The older the child, the bigger the chance that the response is someone from a textbook or tv. I happened to be one of those children. It took me almost 2 decades to know that mine was the one who birthed me. Strong, determined, hard working, smart working, business driven, family woman, the list goes on. As an adult, you piece the things from your childhood together to make sense of it. One of the things i realized, i was raised by superwoman. – Gbadebo Adeyemi

My Mother

My prayer warrior

My gist partner

My nurse

My Chef

My semi-confidant because whatevr I tell you, you will still tell daddy. 🙄🙄

My everything.

I am grateful for the values you have instilled in me and I am thankful that you have helped me at every stage of my life. I am thankful for the things you do that I don’t see, I appreciate the sacrifices you made and make just to make me smile.

Orisa bi iya o si

I love you mama – Nike Oyediran

Words fail me to describe how much my mother mean to me. Thank you for being my backbone, my everyday support, thank you for seeing the good in me always. Happy Mother’s Day Mum, I love you. – Yemi Aransiola

Hey Superwoman, that irreplaceable human in my life, my support system and best friend 💜 my mother ❗

I appreciate you everyday, today is to celebrating mothers and I just want you to know, I wouldn’t ask for another mummy if I am to choose again, LOVE ALWAYS.

Your daughter, Ronke. – Temitayo Taiwo

My First Crush

The first thing you should know before you proceed in reading this is that It is not your typical love story lol. It’s the story of one of the most magical yet confusing feelings I’ve ever felt in my life! Another thing you should know is that growing up, I was not the everyday girly girl, I loved my comfortable baggy jeans, tank top & low cut. So crushing on a boy wasn’t necessarily my thing to be honest except he was Chris Brown, if not, Naa. I had a lot of boys as friends because they would always walk me back home from the barber’s shop. However, being lovesick wasn’t my thing. It was the first time i had the butterflies in my tummy experience.

It was a hot Thursday afternoon, my mum just dropped my sister & I off at church because Revd Paul, our youth pastor, had insisted on us attending teenagers camp that year. Heaven knows I was angry, I was not a fan of the teenagers department in my church. I had my own clique of friends, we all didn’t like the department & we were all rebellious so we had a very strong bond. Since I heard Revd Paul talking to my mum about camp, I knew I had to inform my clique as soon as possible so they would attend too & no one was allowed to bail out.

The excitement of attending camp didn’t hit me until I saw my friend’s mum’ car approaching towards the teenager’s church building, you can imagine how happy I was. I quickly left my sister’s side to join my babygirl. Even though I see her every weekend, we act like we’ve not seen each other in ages.. it’s always fun catching up with Toluwani. While we were busy catching up & sipping on our Mirinda, I saw a strange car, one I didn’t recognise because it didn’t belong to any of the family I know in church but I didn’t pay much attention, my friend will be in camp with me, that’s all I cared about.

I didn’t notice the people in the car had alighted & were already getting comfortable.. they’re going to camp too. Wow… this camp should be fun I said to Tolu, our sole aim was to go there to laugh, not to participate but to laugh! While we were waiting for the church bus to come back, I saw three of the kids from the strange car looking at us, one of them said something & they all laughed out loud, I knew they were talking about Tolu and I. Male gossips? Ewww. 1st turn off but I noticed one of them in particular didn’t laugh much and he seemed cool..

Anyway we got to camp around 4pm on Thursday, I was already very tired and was strangely missing home. We settled in, had dinner & proceeded to the hall for the welcome remark. The new kids sat right in front of us, still whispering & laughing, what’s with these boys, I mused. They can’t be forming bad guys here, they’re not even members of my church & they’re in my territory. I already drew the battle line at that point in my head.. I already had a soft spot for the “cool one” though.

The next day, Friday, I already met 2 of the kids as their bunk was two away from mine, very lovely girls. They told me the 4 other boys were their cousins and one of them liked me in particular.. oh wow. I had not even had time to check them out well. But while thinking about it, i was Hoping it was the cool one from the first day. My mission that day was to have a good look at them. Fast forward to later that day, that evening, as part of the activities, we were put in various groups, guess what? Two of the new guys were in my group! The cool one & his cousin 😬 Wow! We said our hello’s & they seem cool after all but I was still not a fan. I needed to know what they said about Tolu and I I thought.

Honestly all through our stay in camp, we didn’t talk much but I was gradually crushing on the cool one. His name is Niji btw. On Friday evening, we were cast to act a drama for our group at variety night which would also be our last day in camp before we traveled back on Sunday, isn’t God good? The icing on the cake was Niji was casted as my husband in the drama. Haha I knew we were match made in heaven, behold I’ve found the bone of my bone. Plus it was an opportunity for us to talk but he still didn’t say much to me, he told me he liked my top & my hair, I couldn’t stop smiling. I ran to Tolu to tell her about what he said, she was excited for me but she told me not to show too much excitement, true. I’m a bad guy, I shouldn’t show my excitement so he doesn’t start feeling like a mini god.

The strange thing was even though Niji didn’t say much to me, I would always catch him staring at me, everytime our eyes met, we’ll smile & look away. What the heck is wrong with this boy? Why wouldn’t he just talk to me I wondered. To make matters worse, I was very cool with his cousins in our group, he was in my group so we were always in the same space.

Variety night was fun, our drama went well too. I think it was the best part of camp. It was the first time we were out till past 10pm gisting and playing. We were all saying our goodbyes at the end of the night & exchanging numbers but my crush was no where to be found. It’s not like he wasn’t present there but he didn’t ask for my number! What?! Since he didn’t ask, I channeled my mind to just enjoying his company, gisting with his cousins & looking forward to seeing my family the next day.

Sunday morning, we were back in church. I honestly didn’t think about him much, although him not taking my number crossed my mind.

Anyway, that night my sister’s phone rang & it was one of his cousin’s from camp. She called to catch up with my sister as they bonded in camp, good for them. While I was busy minding my business, my sister called me & told me someone wanted to say hi to me, I reluctantly collected the phone to say hi when I heard the voice; it was his voice! It was Niji’s voice! Omg! Omg!!….