Mekila's story does not fit into what I have conceptualised as "love letters". Mekila got the Mastercard Foundation Scholarship while he was rounding up the second year of his bachelor's in Cameroon. it was the first scholarship he ever applie
Badi’u graduated with a CGPA of 3.95 out of 5 from the university and spent two years building a scholarship-worthy CV. He took us through his journey of little dreams from his countryside home, the many “We are sorry to inform you” letters, an
What do you do with a third-class degree and a big ambition to study a master’s in International Law at a top university Uk? You are about to find out!From losing her dad at a very tender age; to self-funding her way through university despite
A year ago, I got two fully funded prestigious scholarships to study abroad (a MasterCard scholarship to study at the University of Edinburgh and an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to study in France, Germany, and Portugal) with a CGPA of 3.95, no I
This episode documented a grueling episode of rape that a 15 years old girl faced and the resulting effects on her. She narrated how she got pregnant and had to leave school, became a mother, developed health complications, the impending fear o
By YEMISI OJO Investigations have shown that people don’t just become terrorist overnight. The root cause might as well not just be about ideology. From the several investigations, issues relating to family fractures, what was happening in scho
By YEMISI OJO We know what rape victims go through. Unfortunately, we know too well because as much as we hate to know, the victims are our friends, our sisters, our children or our mothers. Sometimes, they are us. What we don’t know however is
By YEMISI OJO To mark the World Refugee Day 2020, we followed the stories of two refugees who are helping others refugees and displaced people in their community find back their lives; Aisha Bakari Gombi from Nigeria and Evariste Mfaume from D
Blessing Iorhuna was heavily pregnant when the farmer-herder crisis in her village started. She told us her story of survival, and how she lost her husband and son during this process.
By YEMISI OJO Imagine you wake up one day, on a very good morning of the second day of a new year. Good despite that it is in a leather house at the IDP. Imagine again that you cooked, bathed your kids
By YEMISI OJO I have heard stories of soldiers who died in warfare, and so far, I have come close to just one of them or a relative of one. She was in class that day, writing her exams, and the news came that her brother had been gunned down be
exactly a year mr Stephen started running from one place to the other because of the farmer herder crisis in Benue state and Nassarawa, I went visiting him at the Internally Displaced Camp in Daodu. And we had a chat.
By YEMISI OJO The National Youth Service scheme is a compulsory one year national service undergraduates in Nigeria perform after school. This service is done mostly away from where they call home. In this episode, I and some corps members sha