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Being a Bachelor must be one of life's most exciting moments. In this series of writings, I capture every moment I could as I progressed through the once-in-a-lifetime phase; Quite humbling I must say. 

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Being a Bachelor (1)

One of the many phases of my life that I have anticipated so badly, is this phase, FREEDOM (I’ve had my own fair share since undergrad, but this time is different). I am not sure if it is the freedom or the side attractions that comes with it.



Things like having my space, girls visiting (oh yeah, used to be a big deal), meet my stuff at the exact spot I kept them and all that random stuff an average young man ever wished for.

You know every guy wants to leave the house so bad like there’s
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Being a Bachelor (2)

Please read in my voice, Welcome to today’s episode, sorry it took this long. Allow me to borrow a lie we give for such excuses “I have been very busy”.

One of the beliefs that have gained root in our core existence is “Men can’t or don’t know how to cook”, I come before you to say the truth, its a lie. please just before you get excited, this is not an advocacy for gender balance or equity in gender roles, this is not the episode.

If you have ever believed that “Men can’t or don’t know how to
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Being a Bachelor (3)

I had anticipated I was going to write this in all excitement with as much frenzy vibe that my imaginations could reflect through my hands of course. But the laws of interruptions won’t allow that. I hope you still get the juice from this anyway.

Alaye Jara’e (My friend be smart), Quit the Zone! Please read that again.

Few days ago I saw a tweet which read [not in exacts words] “ I don’t want to date this guy, but I like to have him around”. Does that sound like you? How many guys are you curr
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BEING A BACHELOR (4)

I just recovered from my most traumatic experience ever, I don’t recall ever going this much worry or emotional stress in a very long time. Infact, I usually regarded myself as “I don’t think” but you see these past weeks, I went overboard with thinking, it took the whole of me, the number of time I hissed in a day must have surpassed the number of inhaling and exhaling I’ve ever done (of course, there’s a little exaggeration there).

What happened you may be thinking.

The reality that I am ent
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Being a Bachelor (Episode 5)

The struggle is real, especially with rising expectations from the male child. I once read an article about how the cycle of poverty evolves through several generations. Immediately the older child starts making money, no matter how little, there are custom made responsibilities awaiting settlement by end of the month, from sending stipends to paying fees etc. while it is considered a responsibility, this child finds it almost impossible to make a sustained living for himself, he grows older con
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Being a Bachelor (Ep6)

It’s over a month since I have been writing this series and it’s really funny how, I am yet to find a balance on the duration of post. Well, as usual I’ll like to blame it on being busy. That’s the trend of course, nobody takes a blame when it can be easily passed on to something else.

I vividly remember 4/5 years ago when I had this burning passion to pursue a career in advertising, it seemed like the only right thing to do at the time. Although, I didn’t have any prior experience, I was certa
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Being a Bachelor (7)

"Daddy, When I grow up and leave your house, I'll stop attending this your church, I will keep full hair and do all the things staying under your roof has never allowed me do".

"Oboy! That's your business, so long you are under my roof, you must do what I say, not under my watch. Must you keep beards, are you a mallam?"

A father and son conversation, the mother was somewhere hoping her husband will not descend on the boy with slaps that will send him back to his room. "This boy wants to become
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Being a Bachelor (8)

Growing comes with more acquaintance to our environment and people. Being social animals means we crave for acceptance or a certain level of comfort and relatability, hence friendships, relationships and other types of ships.

The past few months has taught me a couple of things about friendship and definitely I'm going to share, that's why you are here anyway. Lol.

Growth and advancements (social class, location, knowledge, responsibilities etc) are serious strains or gains to relationships, d
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Being a Bachelor (Ep9)

This is a parade term to turn back and keep on matching or take a halt.

It's 2 months since I started these series and I have always had reasons to push this particular discussion forward, waiting and hoping for the most appropriate time. Well, I guess it's today.

Ask anyone, the major thing that gets tested immediately after school is your faith, how well do you believe in all the things you have confessed because really life will hit you hard, the reality and dynamics of life will hold you s
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Being a Bachelor (Ep 10)

You still owe someone.

Often you'll hear people say "nobody owes you anything" or "I don't owe you anything". Well this is very true but in the real sense of it, you actually owe people something and a couple of people owe you something.

Now, don't get me wrong, this is not to fuel an entitlement mentality or make you excessively committed to certain people, but there are certain obligations you can't ignore by choosing to be a lone ranger.

This statement is usually made by most people to jus
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Please don’t man up, it’s a trap!

It’s a big one, I must say.

I had a chat with a friend of mine yesterday, and one of the things we both agreed on was that ‘we were clearly not ready for the real world’, all the ‘life hack’ advice from folks before us were traps, big traps and those little achievements at the time succeeded in adding a little weight to our ego. If you wish you were still a student or probably earning NYSC’s 33k now then you share the same thoughts as my friend and I.

Honestly, I have always been eager to be h
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Being a Bachelor (Ep 12)

Let’s talk about your Big Break and looking through different lenses to walk you there.

There are several roads that lead to the market, a popular statement you must have heard, but have you considered the possibilities of having several roads to your Big Break? Imagine your big picture and all the possible ways to achieve it, Did you know that it’s still very little compared to the diverse means available? Sometimes the easier route is threading the paths of people before you.

I’m currently o
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Being a Bachelor (Ep 12)

Put a price on yourself and get over these habits

Alright, you’ve probably given this a loose thought at one point, but you’ve camped under, I’m just being free, I own my space and I can do whatever. But common, it’s time you put a price on yourself and maybe stop the following.

1. Eating Noodles inside that small pot or frying pan.

Familiar? Don’t believe that thing your stomach says about Noodles in the pot being sweeter, the slightly burnt part is not a reward for not cooking rice or somet
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Being a Bachelor (Ep14)

Been a long break for this series and a section of my resolution says welcome back and Happy New year.

I was determined to enjoy this break to the fullest, do this Christmas food ritual and share to people. The reality of cooking plenty rice with salty or tasteless stew dawned on me the eve of Christmas.

I considered jollof and I wasn't sure of my skills, what if it turns out to be concoction? Or not as red as it should, even though I had the colouring I heard caterers normally add.

Too much
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Being a Bachelor (Ep 15)

We’re still very much in the new year mood so let’s talk about setting goals, adopting rules, habits and that “new year, new me” type of thing.

Entering into a new year, especially one that comes after 2020 will be filled with expectations and vibes to crush any mountain, but like other years it might not last the first quarter of the year.

I think it’s a normal human phenomenon, not keeping to rules or plans. For example we have African time, we have campaign promises not being kept, Dad not
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Being a Bachelor (Ep16)

Some days back I decided to consciously work on my money habits after leaving a meeting. Well, some of these things you might know, but just like me, you don’t even know why such habits should be kept you or you just don’t care.

Let’s talk about 2 of them

Firstly, folding and squeezing money. Without any data, I’m sure over 90% of Nigerians are well guilty of this, you’ll hardly see any straight money except you just left the ATM or counter.

Now here’s a context to why “money maltreatment” sh
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Bros come, you need to be taken care of

Bros come, you need to be taken care of

You don’t even need to think deeply or look too critically for any evidence. A lot of dudes don’t take care of themselves and this goes beyond having the financial wherewithal to do so, although that’s important lots of folks just don’t care.

An average guy works tirelessly to save money while anticipating some type of billing from God knows where. Now when I say take care of yourself I’m not speaking to the lavish fantasies you have in your head, althou
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Being a Bachelor (18)

I HAVE A SERIOUS “WHAT WILL I EAT?” PROBLEM

As each day passes so does my worry about “what to eat” knock on my stomach and alerts my brain every morning, afternoon and night. I honestly wonder how I’ve been able to give it what it needs because if you ask me what I ate yesterday afternoon, Honestly, I can’t even remember. Wait, can you even remember yours?

Being a Bachelor means you’d have to deal a lot with what to eat, we’re not even talking about eating good food yet. You’d mostly eat to s
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Being a Bachelor (19)

Okay, I agree to my naivety.

I’ve always been told about the real world outside the walls of school, and hardly has anyone ever painted a good picture of this real world. It has always been talked about as one hellish place; no justice and nobody cares about you. More like you’re a Daniel inside a den of untamed Lions.

While I had all the reasons to be fearful and pessimistic like most of my colleagues and seniors, somehow I remained blind. At the time, I consider myself quite exposed and if I
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Being a Bachelor (20)

Moving apartments in Lagos has to be one of the most tedious tasks ever, it’s a cycle, an experience I’ll rather skip to port myself into a new apartment. When they say “nothing good comes easy”, I’m sure the originator of that line must have had a near Lagos house hunting experience.

Let’s have a not so short back story…

I relocated to Lagos in December 2019 and my financial projection was to move into my own space by March 2020. That was probably my pre-relocation biggest joke because I had
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Being a Bachelor (21)

I recently resumed buying foodstuff and my list this last time struck me. Bruv, it was important to write about this one.

All my life Rice, Beans, Garri (most importantly) and other petty ingredients are the entirety of what I consider foodstuff. Any other thing is unnecessary and a waste of money. At a later time, I added noodles and bread became my go-to snack; I mean bread was like my meat pie and sausage. I guess the flour they are all made from always interpreted something different to my
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Staying over can be a lot of work

Staying over can be a lot of work

Its almost 12 am and as I stepped into my bathroom to shower, I couldn’t help but notice the patches in the basin, the kind that clearly tells you how bad this thing needs to be washed and how urgent it has to be.

Same was my fate when I returned from work the other day and I saw my blind and windows opened… ooo jigbi jigbi (papa ajasco here). Mehn, I couldn’t hold it, something erupted in me, but, I had to put up that pretty smile, the kind a beauty pageant c

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