Angela Ukomadu's Blog

 I spent the first 21 years of my life in Port Harcourt, Rivers state...I mean "RIVERS" state, so you would think I should know how to swim with all of that water body surrounding me? Naaaaa, I cannot even stand in a gutter.    Then I had my son, he is all daring and ready to go. At 7 or 8, he said he wanted to join the swimming class in his school. Trust me to say a big NO. But hubby felt and my sister Ruth said if he really wanted to do it, I should let him and not use my own fears to overshadow him. Reluctantly, I agreed.      So when I came across this Kayak story via the #NothingToDoInLagos Instagram handle, I temporarily forgot my fears and could not wait to tell the story. Hahahahha, your guess is as good as mine. I flopped big time. Now, the plan was to use the double kayak. That way I will do the paddling while my colleague films the other kayakers. I spent less than 20 seconds in the water and I was screaming to leave. The kind-hearted Kayak owner had to help pa

This was the first story I covered this year and it was a really fun one for me as I had to be a model for the one and only Laolu Sebanjo, the Afromysterics artist who came to limelight after working with  Beyonce on the Lemonade video. How cool is that? LOL    So earlier this year, pictures and talks of Laolu was all over my Instagram timeline. He was in Nigeria and was planning for a meet and greet at Bogobiri. I checked out his profile, saw pictures of body paints that wowed me. Now, I totally forgot my team had planned to profile him and was waiting for a chance visit to Nigeria. Well, to cut a long story short, my TV head made some calls and voila, he agreed to see us on same day he was traveling back to the United States.    Laolu is a 37 year old Nigerian from Kwara state. He is a visual artist, musician, and an attorney. Art, whether painting or singing is what he has always wanted to do because growing up, his grandmother shaped his love for art by always telling him

 There is this joke that most Nigerians do not know how to "mind their business." From the body movement, the very sly cough that suddenly manifests, the side eye they give you, the look, to the " un-looking " game, they are bound to make you understand that they know what you are doing or about to do.    While this may have its positive sides of making one always cautious of never going wrong, the negative sides cannot be overlooked too. Have you seen TV adverts of condom and how the buyer suddenly starts asking for biscuits even when they came to buy condoms? Just because they saw one nosy auntie or uncle at the pharmacy! I also remember the one of Lolo1 acting as a nurse and how she reacted when two teenagers came in to the hospital to find out more about safe sex.    Well, before we continue, I am 100 percent all for zipping up until the wedding night but we cannot ignore the fact that our youths are hitting it everyday. Yes it happens. While we preach for

Photo credit: DFlex This was one story that was painful to watch; You know that feeling of taking your child to the hospital for injections, and you are flinching as the needle is about to prick your child. Yeah, same feeling. I was taking a walk on Instagram street when I came across Oyindamola Emmanuel, AKA Dflex. My first thought was, how on earth can someone do this? Na juju?  I contacted him and fortunately for me, he was also preparing to break a world record, so I knew I had to tell his story to the world. Dlfex is a contortionist. He found out about his ability to stretch and twist his body in unimaginable ways when he was 13 years old. He shot into limelight in 2013 after he participated in the Nigeria's Got Talent show. Contortion is an art that requires an extreme kind of physical flexibility that is not rare, and exceeds that of the general population. Dflex spends an hour everyday perfecting his art. This is not really common in Nigeria and it is usually assoc