Relationships & Marriage Columnist

Yewande Balogun

Family & relationship writing

Yewande writes with warmth about love, dating and Nigerian marriage — the good, the wahala and the everyday lessons.

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Articles by Yewande

Every Wednesday evening, forty people sing together in an Abuja courtyard. This is why.

July 20, 20265m

Yewande demystifies Nigerian marriage counselling — how to find a counsellor, what a first session looks like, and what it costs.

June 18, 20265m

Six couples in the UK, US and Canada tell Yewande what has actually held their marriages together.

May 28, 20265m

We ran a small reader survey. The answers were less about the apps and more about what people are hoping to escape.

April 9, 20265m

Half-relationships, no titles, no clarity. Yewande unpacks why the situationship era has quietly lost its shine in Lagos and Abuja.

February 23, 20265m

Yewande sits down with a Nigerian couple who spent three years commuting across two continents — and stayed married.

February 9, 20265m