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To serve Nigeria or not?

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I haven’t written a blog post since January 😳, that’s unbecoming, but the past 9 months have been amazing filled with different experiences.

Laughter, happiness, sadness, regrets filled, adventurous, educating, exciting, almost every feeling.

From not going anywhere from December to February to touring Nigeria. Love it though my account bleeds😅



Anyway, how have you been?

I’m sorry for the long break in transmission, NYSC and adulting have been after my life.



For my foreign readers, NYSC is the acronym for National Youth Service Corps, a program organised by the Nigerian government to enable the youths of Nigeria to serve their fatherland for a year. You are moved from your home to live in another state in Nigeria.

This program I feel is necessary but should be modified, but in the usual Nigerian method changes are never made with the times, we like to be stuck in the past and change only the things that benefit the government.

Is NYSC necessary to you?


Shout out to having my parents, siblings and friends as the best support system throughout this process, 4 more months to go and I’m quite elated!

I’m going to talk about my life divided into some areas.

1. Business:

The Readers Hut has been prosperous this year and that is thanks to you. Thank you for your support, the store will be clocking one on the 30th of October. I will be running an anniversary sale so do well to use this opportunity! 🤗



I had a major sale from Simi, the musician, and it boosted my sales. Just so you know Influencer marketing is crazy. Simi tagged me on Instagram after receiving her books and over 200 persons followed the business account overnight and about 10 persons bought books.

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This is me who had been running giveaways to gain followers and patronage and few Nigerians reached out. One of my favourite highlights for the year.



2. NYSC:

Such a frustrating scheme, everything was wrong from the beginning but I have made amazing friends. I also travelled to places I never saw myself going to, definitely an amazing experience. I travelled to Abuja, Gombe and Delta for the first time.

Video recap! 💕



3. Life:

I thought males and females hated each other, how come everyone is getting married every day? 😂😂 I attended the highest number of weddings in the first half of the year. Beautiful experiences and I wish everyone love and light but no more weddings for me till I get a proper job. 👍

I have had a year mixed with exciting times, and sad times, lost my aunt who was sort of my foster mum, and I have had depressing times while serving in delta state. I am also adjusting gradually to this place but I can’t wait to be done.

Brings me to the current issue in my head, What next after Nysc? If you have been in this situation, how did you navigate it? I would love to read your thoughts and advice.



I have had quite an exciting reading year, I will put a blog post of my favourite reads of the year soon.

I was sent a review copy of ‘I was a teen rockstar ‘by A. H. Mohammed. The author of The last days at forcados high, I enjoyed this book and put up a blog post, it gained so much traction. I hope you all love his newest book.

Shout out to the Nigerian music industry, you guys are doing the work! I may put up a review of my favourite songs and albums for the year on the blog or on my podcast. If you haven’t listened to Bants with Naza podcast, you need to fix up! 😊

Till next time guys! Thank you for reading, do share! 💕

Catch ya!!
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My 2021 Year Review

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Quite a fast year I must say but I loved it. There were wins, losses, happy times, sad times and stress-filled moments.

Started on a happy note, after spending a whole year at home, seeking internship placement (P. S. If you want to study a health-related course pick nursing, medicine and radiography so you can japa easily).

A crazy year with extreme highs and lows, I will be recapping in sections, dive in.

Becoming a Pharmacist;

I completed my internship, next year I will be fully licensed to practice. Sadly, these days I find that I’m gradually losing zeal for this course😑 despite participating as the lead pharmacist in about 5 health outreach.

Just to remind you of my being a Pharmacist😆


I had the best year as an Intern at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, I learned what the corporate world is like especially in the government sector. Working with lazy people, hardworking people, making new friends; Mercy, Percy, Ike, Jennifer, Joy, Monica, Precious, Sotonye, Fynn, Unique, Shalom, ThankGod, Ellis and a host of others. Quarrelled, made up, got stressed with getting to and from work ‘cos Port-Harcourt transport system is the ghetto( You should listen to my podcast where I rant/talk about this and my previous blog post), combining house chores with work and a host of crazy experiences.

Regardless I learnt and I experienced life.

The Readers Hut…

The community grew across social media platforms. It’s been 2 years of blogging and hosting the book club and this brand will be 3 years old by February 1.


My book club members frustrated me a lot with lack of participation, in all, it was an exciting year for us. We read 19 books, bonded these last days of the year, had our first virtual meeting/party, played games and generally had a good time. In all we had supportive members too; Tim, Ruth, Favour, Adams, Chinwendu, Chimaobi and a host of amazing people who chipped in new ideas and made the year beautiful. Here’s hoping we do more next year.

I finally started book sales in October, been a long time coming, still growing and improving but the support has been amazing. Don’t forget to refer or buy from me next year🤩, scan through my catalogue you might see something you like.😊

I participated in a Twitter contest for small businesses where we were to submit videos stating what we would need 100,000 NGN for and my video was picked 🥳, a big win for my business as funding is so hard to come by.

We had beautiful book club discussions too, just to inform you, my book club members are so smart, intelligent and beautiful!

The beautiful messages from my book club members this season, makes me feel so good, loved and fulfilled. Next year we are going harder and better, cheers to growth🥂

Family and Friendships…

My family will always be the same, I’m grateful for them, despite how much they make me complain, I have this love-angry relationship with them. I can’t wait to make the money I deserve so I can spoil everyone, contribute maximally and move out😙😏. Love you The Nwaeke’s! ❤️

For my friends, I’m grateful for everyone, from allowing me to rant/listening to me, to being present, to buying me gifts; my birthday was beautiful despite the mixed feelings then, to the constant encouragements, for being you, Thank you, I love you and I miss my friends so much!

Distance/Life is so annoying 😑

I may have also found love too but who knows let’s see what 2022 has in store… 😌

I had friends who were critically ill and they survived(Senny and Percy, we are thankful to every one of you who made this possible), my friends lost parents too and I can’t explain how sad I was, we cried a lot this year, but time will heal pains. Love you my baby girls (Rita, Endy, Chisom and Evelyn)

I had fun times with friends, Kasarachi, Chisom, Alex, Richard, Shola, Jennifer, Irene and I attended a get together with my secondary school classmates😍, I also made new friends🥰.  For those who didn’t take me out this year,  Apollos, Solomon and Co. 🙄, fix up loves.

My friends lost a lot and are still losing breaks my heart so much, some won a lot too and this makes me so proud; from Chimdi working on our Haircare brand, to Debby getting a job with She Leads Africa, Shola getting into an acting school, my girls getting good jobs and so many other wins. Makes me extremely happy🤗



Friends and acquaintances got married!! My goodness, it’s like a bell was rung or something, Y’all should let us know what’s up please😂. Congratulations to my beautiful people who found their lovers this year, Rita, Thelma, Christy and Christy😂😂, Immaculata(yours is coming though), Egwuchi, Queeneth( I had fun on your day😍), for we singletons we go again next year😌.

And Finally, Me…

I lived, I laughed, I cried(alot), I had fun, I made good and bad choices, I loved my friends openly and intentionally, I made an impact in my community.

I  plan for the new year with my best babes Chimdi and Debby. We have been extremely busy this year, regardless, I met some of my goals for the year and despite me looking down on myself sometimes for not doing much I’m doing my best and I’m grateful for the little wins.

I read 38 books this year, the smallest number I have read in a year, adulting kicked my ass but that’s fine. You can view the list of books I read on good reads and the list of to be bought books for next year In Jesus Name.

In all, I had a pretty sweet and amazing year! I’m hopeful for the new year although 2022 is filled with uncertainties with going for NYSC (I will drop deets on it so be prepared😉), being currently unemployed and thinking/praying and planning concerning my future.

Cheers to the new year and may I be the first to wish you, HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳🥰 Bye!!

A little photo gallery

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August, Birthdays, Life….

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Every year when it gets close to August I’m always hyped up. I love my birthday, I love everyone’s birthday, I hate it when people say “I don’t celebrate my birthday”, makes me feel sad.

This post is going to be me rambling on how weird August has been.

The year started great, started an internship at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital after waiting a whole year at home.

I made new friends, enemies too😂😂, I hold a mean grudge, a bad habit.

We are slowly coming to the end of the one-year training and it’s been great.

August came and first, my laptop’s screen broke, very tragic. I hate unplanned expenses and I’m the queen of budgeting.

My friend whom I have worked with, within every unit since January fell ill on his birthday and in the space of two weeks, everything went haywire. An amazing man, I must say, makes me ask why bad things happen to good people?

Kept crying like a fool, honestly, I could cry for a living, hard girl like me😂😂



My birthday came, I was in-between feelings. I wanted so much to be happy but I felt like I was committing a crime, how could I be this happy while my friend is so ill he can’t move or breathe without mechanical support.

Every year my birthday gets more beautiful, I mean the love this year and the gifts were overwhelming. (Thank you everyone!❤️)

Regardless, it was a bit sad. Then my best girls dad was critically ill, she sent me a message “Naza, I’m scared”. My babe is never scared and I honestly didn’t feel good.

I spent my birthday happy, crying and praying. Quite a weird mix.😅

Hormonal imbalance is a mean situation too like, give sis a break universe. I have been breaking out and it’s not funny, massive, painful pimples, all my skincare ‘in the mud’.

I have lost the zeal for a lot of things but I’m putting in more effort to not be overwhelmed by all the happenings. I’m also learning a lot about myself.

I’m an emotional being despite my thinking I’m not, I get so affected by close friends who have problems. I tend to also cry more than the bereaved. This is so not good and I need a balance.

How do you balance friendships and being present for your friends in times of need?

This has been an event-filled month but I’m staying positive, promised God I would do that. I’m reading You should see me in a crown by Leah Johnson for the book club. I’m putting this here because I want to be more expressive and not keep everything in my head, which tends to stress me a lot.

I got a gift of a book voucher from my best girls🥰, we should be starting our podcast soon, sadly we still haven’t chosen a name and haven’t defeated procrastination.😅

Say a prayer for my friends today, sadly, my friend lost her dad, despite everything and my other friend is still ill. We organised a fundraiser so if you can donate or share we would appreciate it!

Hopefully, next year’s birthday is better than this year’s, I have decided to not hate my birthday month, I have understood that life happens and it will not always be rosy.

Cheers to 23 and a beautiful year with more lessons to learn!

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Nigerians: Architects of our own misfortune or not?

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Whoop! Whoop! A new blog post, consistency people! This is an area I always battle with. How have we been? Oh! Happy Easter Celebration!!

Send dollz to your family people, I’m your family too😌😌

Let’s talk about something that keeps bugging me, the nature and character of a Nigerian.

Nigerians are really beautiful, blessed and amazing people, but we keep getting things wrong in our homeland. Right from our leaders who are eternally corrupt to our citizens, I feel we are in a tight fix. We cause a lot of problems for ourselves which is sad but this is our reality.

I think it’s basic human nature to be disobedient, non law abiding and troublesome at times but Nigerians somehow have it in spades and I know we can do better.

Two weeks ago was a very rainy period in the beautiful city of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. When these happen we see flooded roads, increased traffic and lack of transportation, I have never really understood why.

On this rainy morning, I was standing on the pedestrian walkway with some students and workers waiting for transport vehicles, when this white hilux with two lawyers decides to cut across traffic by driving over the pedestrian walkway. The roads were flooded and the water splashed over we the pedestrians. Thanks people, thank you for giving us a second bath, as the one we had before leaving our homes wasn’t enough.

Can I use a curse word? 😒 I mean how insensitive can we be, they didn’t apologise, it was like nothing happened. The irony in this scenario is that the car passengers were lawyers😂😂, these are supposed to be people who uphold law and orderliness in the society, right?

Actions bring reactions, it is these cases and more that make people invite the police to help intervene in issues, I don’t subscribe to police invitations but there are times you just can’t help it.

I see a lot of debates on twitter concerning why Nigerians shouldn’t be held responsible for some of the things we do, last week it was ongoing and some persons were like we should blame the corrupt leaders and I’m wholly in support of that but regardless we should play our part to be good people. We can’t all be perfect, but try to be good.

There is this law enforcement agency set up by Governor Wike in Port-Harcourt, Road Taskforce, they are quite a raggedy bunch, rough and sometimes corrupt people but fam I really wished they caught those lawyers 😏, I mean let’s reap the reward of our actions right? Well they wouldn’t, because they can as well pay their way out of it. Welcome to Nigeria!

We are blessed, very intelligent citizens, we deserve a working system, we really do but let’s try to develop one from our little corners. That’s all for today, my Easter gift to you all is to Be Good People!

I finally finished The girl with the louding voice by Abi Dare and my review would be up next weekend.

I will be rounding up Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and picking up A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks soon, I really can’t wait, a friend read it and said He was all up in his feelings after reading it🥺

Till next time! If you have thoughts to share, the comment section is waiting for you😁

Don’t forget to buy books from our favourite store Roving Heights, if you need recommendations ask in the comment section or send me a message on twitter @thereadershut.

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Bus Chronicles

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Do not leave your house without change!

This is a warning don’t say I didn’t do anything for you this year 🙂, not doing that is a recipe for having a bad day.

Nigerian bus drivers are always angry😩…

On a beautiful Tuesday morning, this half-bougie babe left home with 550 naira notes in her bag.

How did she forget the number one rule when using Nigerian buses?

Balancing like a queen in the front seat, the bus conductor asked, “Front seat your money?” then it dawned on her that she had messed up big time. To crown it all, a lot of persons in the bus were with larger currencies and she didn’t tell the conductor before entering that this was what she had as the last person who entered the bus.

She decided there was nothing much she could do, she gave the comductor her 550 naira and told him to give her 400 naira change. The audacity! 😂😂

This man gave her this look like “you go dey form fine babe wetin be this? I go commot your teeth juss now“😒😒

The conductor was pissed, ” O girl, give me 200 naira oh, me I no hold change“

Pretends to search bag, ” Sir, I no hold any money, sorry sir…. abeg manage help me find change” and returned back to using her phone, thinking she was being polite. 😏😂

That was the stroke that broke the camels back, the conductor goes off ” I tell you say I no get change, you go dey press phone“

The man was infuriated! 😩

What is it with older people and seeing younger persons using their phone when they are conversing with them?

An honest question really, I felt I was polite, but he didn’t think so.

In conclusion, he got change for me🤗😅, but I wouldn’t lie that I wasn’t a bit rattled, I always avoid leaving my house without change.

I hear in places like Lagos, they would take your money and that will be it, except you can be ready to display some form of crazy😂😂, that place ain’t for me.

That’s it for today, let’s hope the new week is as interesting as the last one!

Ever had issues with bus drivers? Let’s talk, how did you handle it.