Ebele Ubaka
Don’t Call Me a Feminist, Call Me a Matriarch. I don’t like the word “feminist”, not because of what it has been painted to be, but because it is too limiting for my ambiguous mind. I find labels uncomfortable in general, but especially labels that seem to require me to explain myself before I have … Read more
Building Female Legacies for the Modern Woman. I believe women should learn to get their female children involved in the careers or businesses they do. Not the typical helping you out in your shop with sales, deliveries and stockkeeping. I’m talking about the way men plan and build empires, raising sons to inherit them, women … Read more
How I Learn and Retain Knowledge: Visual Scenarios, Reflection & Note-Taking I noticed something in my learning process. It has always been there but I kind of understand it better in this my adult life. In order to assimilate something, I learnt recently, I have to “regurgitate” it. Not cramming. I read slowly because when … Read more
How to Fix WordPress Missed Schedule Post Error As a beginner blogger, who is yet to receive as much traffic as you need on your blog, you might experience this issue. A situation where you are writing posts and scheduling them and when the time comes for the post to go online, it does not … Read more
Investments are everywhere but the major fear of every new investor is the safety of their capital. With stock market investments, you are not assured of your capital, in money market, your capital is intact. You might be interested in growing your savings or setting money aside for major investments or for other needs but … Read more
Social Architecture and the Quiet Death of Human Interaction. On Christmas day, I went out for a village stroll. I wanted to see the Christmas vibes in the village and no, I was not wearing Christmas clothes. I went to check out a spot I thought looked like a stream side. I desired the feeling … Read more
Stepping Into 2026 With Courage and Craft One of the things being in this village did to me was to open my eyes to things I have either been ignoring or too afraid to do because I felt I lacked the capacity. Take for instance, furniture design. In my place in Enugu, I designed the … Read more
Can Your Home Survive a Power-Out Test? I took the time to look inwards and start simplifying my life. I have been in this village for 8 months now. I have learnt to live quite small, feeding on less than N30k per month. One of the things that has helped me is storing up any … Read more
Laptop Upgrade Story: From HDD to SSD, RAM Issues, and Lessons Learned About three months ago, I was researching on upgrading my laptop’s HDD drive to an SSD drive and upgrading the RAM size from 8GB to 32GB. The desire came with the frustrating speed of my laptop when using Revit 2025. After hearing the … Read more
How to Prevent Toilet Water from Drying Up When You Travel On two occasions, I have travelled and came back to see that the water in my water-closet bowl has dried up. Which exposes my house to crawling insects from the soak away pit. I started thinking of what to do to keep the water … Read more
The Cultural difference in Greetings, From Village to City Few days ago, I was in Enugu, and I noticed a change in me. This village has me greeting everyone I pass by on the road, including people inside shop. I still try to keep my face straight, no turning to the left or right, but … Read more
Why Solving Maths Without a Calculator can Boost Your Brain Power I applied for a role that required me to take a test. It looked like Quantitative reasoning and Verbal reasoning. The instruction said not to use a calculator, just paper and pen and there was a timer. 20 minutes for 50 questions. Read: If I … Read more
