Today, on my way back from church this afternoon in Aba, I witnessed something that left me speechless, a newborn baby abandoned by the roadside😭. My heart broke for that innocent child😭. No child deserves to enter this world and be left alone. As people gathered and expressed their anger, I found myself thinking not only about the baby but also about the mother. Police were alerted to come and pick the baby😭😭 ©Bridget Uche

If everyone knew your bank balance today, what would surprise them?

My boyfriend of four years got a job offer in Canada and we were ecstatic about the news. For six months, I was the one running around helping him process his transcripts, doing midnight prayers, and even lending him ₦10 million to complete his proof of funds from my business account and a loan I collected for this journey. We agreed I would join him next year. The night before his flight, we had a quiet dinner at a restaurant he was looking at me with so much emotion. He held my hands, cleared his throat, and said, "Babe, you are the best woman a man could ask for. But I want us to be very honest with ourselves so we don't hurt each other." My mind immediately went into defense mode.He went on to say that long-distance relationships rarely work in Canada due to the weather and stress. He suggested that we should do an "open relationship" while he is away. He said if he finds someone there to help him get his permanent residency faster through marriage, I shouldn't be angry, because it's just "strategic survival," and he will still be sending me money. I sat there looking at this man wearing the designer shirt I bought him for his birthday. I didn't make a scene or panic in the restaurant. I just smiled, stood up to use the restroom, I took his phone with me since I knew the password to his phone. I opened his banking app, transferred my ₦10 million back to my account with the description "Strategic Survival Fund," deleted the messages alert and returned to my sit. I went to my settings and played my phone ringtone to make it look like a call came in and it was urgent, that was how I walked out of the restaurant, entered a Bolt, and blocked him everywhere. Let him go and survive the Canada cold with clean slate and zero balance, open relationship my foot.

For years now, a woman usually comes to our house to fetch water whenever there's no light. We use generator to pump. She has 3 kids. She comes anytime of the day to fetch as much as she wants, no restrictions. I was driving by this morning, and I saw cassava peels in front of her house. She was sitting down outside, too. I asked if they belonged to her, she said yes. It was just a sack worth. I told her to allow me pack the peels for my goats. I packed the peels into the sack and was about to put it at the back of the truck, then she said "aunty we never talk money o." I was surprised, I asked how much, she said 1k. Wow! So I asked her, "The water you come to fetch everyday nko, do i ask you for any favor or anything in return? We open the gate for you and your kids any day, any time to fetch water, but you want to collect money for this one sack of cassava peels." She was just smiling. So I told her, if you collect this money, we won't let you fetch water again. Because we bought fuel with money too. She just smiled. I gave her the 1k, and she collected it. She even told me to return her sack. She probably think I'm joking about the water, but I've instructed them at home, no more fetching of water again. You don't have to be rich to give back to people who have been kind to you.