by Maryam Idris Bappa | Dec 9, 2020 | Family and Parenting
As you move in the streets of northern Nigeria or you stop for a refuel at a fueling station, wait for your car to fill up in a motor park, wait to pick up your kids in front of school premises or make your way in the market place, you are bound to encounter street...
by Maryam Idris Bappa | Nov 18, 2020 | Family and Parenting
In northern Nigeria, when you hear the word ‘abuse’, the first thing likely to come to your mind is ‘Drug abuse’. Why? This is because it is one of the most socially recognized and stigmatized forms of abuse. But before we discuss more on that, let us have...
by Maryam Idris Bappa | Nov 11, 2020 | Family and Parenting
Pregnancy is not a thing people are generally taught, even in sex education at school. It happens the first or even second time and most people don’t know what to do except they are told. As an expecting couple or mother, the first pregnancy or not, you...
by Khadija Garba | Oct 14, 2020 | Family and Parenting
For centuries, the Nigerian kitchen has always been a marked female territory, a boundary the male is not allowed to trespass for long. Even today, a lot of women don’t like guys staying for too long in their kitchen. This is because an outsider being in your...
by Kabir Salisu Ali | Oct 6, 2020 | Family and Parenting
In Arewa and many other cultures, it’s believed that virginity depends on the first night bleed. That’s why some couples use white bed sheets for the bloodstain to be evidently seen. If the woman didn’t bleed at the first intercourse in her matrimonial home, it is...
by Kabir Salisu Ali | Sep 17, 2020 | Family and Parenting
It is a standard protocol before marriage in Arewa to check for the suitability of the prospective spouses before the wedding to avoid major problems associated with social mismatches. The groom’s family peruses the bride’s ancestry, kinship, social...
