Life of a schooling mum

Post by Dinah Ekundayo Holy Matrimony Let's talk about cheating and the Nigerian woman. Dear Nigerian woman, I have always known there was something off about the way most of you were raised, I use "you" because I think that my parents did their own individual bit to raise me above the norm. Infidelity is a no, no, no in marriage it can be forgiven if it happens once but shouldn't be taken as a norm or the right of the Nigerian men to cheat with impunity. The Nigerian woman should not also be made to carry this cross in marriage without questioning or demanding better.  The Nigerian woman is raised to be quiet and endure while I was raised to speak up, ask questions, and demand answers. This, of course, didn't sit exactly well with my disciplinarian mum and earned me lots of beatings as she never could understand why I should question her punishing me when it was my younger brothers who were at fault, or why I should demand answers for being as...

The L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Ph.D. Poster competition is now open. This poster competition is open to female Ph.D. Students currently studying Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science and Maths in the UK or Ireland. Selected candidates are to present their work on a poster at the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Ceremony on the 4th of May 2017 at the Royal Society, London. To apply, you will need to write a maximum of 300 words abstract and be available to present your  poster on the 4 th May 2017 17.00-21.30 at the Royal Society, London. Please find the template for the abstract  here .  Please send complete abstract applications to Ellyw Evans (FWIS@unesco.org.uk) by  5 pm 27th March 2017 . Winning entrants will be notified of the outcome by 10th April 2017.  All poster presenters will be invited to attend the Awards Ceremony as a guest of L’Oréal and receive a L’Oréal Goodie Bag. The posters...

A few days ago I was sitting at my desk studying quietly when I overheard a colleague speaking with his friend (I had to inform him before posting this so he knows I heard all of their conversation). This post is really about their conversation which I found interesting and I would like to know what you all think. So here goes the conversation (paraphrased of course); Colleague: What are your plans after your first degree Colleague's Friend: I'm not sure. Still confused. Colleague: Why is that? Colleague's Friend: I do not know if to go get a job or to start a masters program. I would like to ask you why you chose to do a Masters program after a bachelor's degree in Engineering His response was sort of thought-provoking and I consider it true. He said ' You can graduate with a first class and not know anything (I think he means not knowing how to apply yourself), education should fuel something in you but most of the education we get (in N...