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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Memory Lane With Hints

I worked at the rested Hints magazine back in the days.....It was where i started my Journey in Journalism...I remember how we used to scramble for cover stories coupled with all th stories we had to write by ourselves....LOL
If you cannot fake a story and make it look real, you cannot work there but i did something Interesting...I started writing real life stories of myself, my friends and others....I guess that was where the Chronicle berthed many years ago....

32 comments:

  1. Wow! Nice one dear SDK🥰
    Me i like reading those hints even news paper,will always rush to entertainment pages like sun girl those days😅
    Until i was introduce to this our sweetest ogbonge blog🥳
    Where i can read and talk wetin dey mind immediately na im dey sweet me pass sef😅

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    1. See Charles Okafor and Sandra, good old days! I read hint, hearts and moved to lollypop.

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  2. My mum, aunties, sisters and few of my cousins were all ardent readers of hints & hearts magazines way back then when we were all growing up of different ages, I used to read through most and enjoyed some of the stories inside them during the weekends when my cousins were around and we were all told to stay indoors.. we would read and tell each other stories and even have fun arguments or debates too few times about the stories.

    Men it’s been so long thinking back to those days now and I’m 70% certain my mom will still have some of those magazines stored or kept somewhere till now.

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  3. Consistency paves way for a successful venture.

    In life, giving up is not an option.

    DOZZYBEST.

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  4. Stella you worked at Hints? You don be ancestor for this industry o. You've really paid your dues. Respect.

    I think Hints tried a digital edition comeback in 2017 but Gen Z have the attention span of mosquitoes so it didn't really take off.

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    1. Stella na Ancestors in plural. Hints so like the gossips back. It was a movie.

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  5. Chai 🤣🤣🤣 good old days.
    I use to save my feeding money to buy hints and lyrics book at park.



    WE KEEP MOVING!!

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  6. Sdk, you have really paid your dues in journalism ✅ Weldone dear👍
    I used to have a toaster that got me newly printed Hints & Hearts mag, me sef enjoy small o 😄

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  7. The journalese with steez, i really like the way you go about your journalism i mean you do your thing with facts, since 2012 i come to know this blog no fake news or scander, i love you for that in all thats shows how far you have come kudos to you my dear

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  8. Take your garden of flowers SDK 🌸💐🌷🌹🌺🌼🌻🪷🪻🌾🥀
    See premium memories, I still have some hints & heart magazines in my letterbox in the villa …i will check it out when next i travel home

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  9. I loved this magazine then. My elder sister introduced hints magazine to me. She introduced the novel Silhouette to me as well. She knows how to write fictions very well.

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  10. Hints was one of the best-selling magazines back in the day.

    I still remember reading a fascinating story about a young man who was secretly dating both a wealthy older woman (a sugar mummy) and her daughter at the same time, without either of them knowing. From what I can recall, he eventually ended both relationships, either because his conscience caught up with him or because he feared the chaos that would erupt if the truth came out. By then, he had reportedly collected a substantial amount of money from both women. I can't remember whether it was N60K or N600K; it's been so many years.

    There was another equally popular magazine that competed with Hints back then, but for the life of me, I can't remember its name, maybe "Hearts" magazine or something like that

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  11. Stellz you are a grandma in your industry doing wonders..keep it up..

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  12. It's been a rollercoaster with Stella Dimoko Korkus. No be today oo.

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  13. Wow
    I Love Reading Hints Magazine In Those Days
    Welldone iya Boys

    Hello iya Boys

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  14. Stella is one of a kind. Ride on nne, we enjoy your blog.

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  15. Wow! Those good old days of magazines. I always read all the mags.
    Well done Stella 👍. You have really come a long way.

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  16. I'm sure if I search my father's house very well i'll see at least one edition. I'd make sure I become your friend by force if I sight it with you just so I could borrow. Hints, Hearts, in fact any of those soft sell magazines and novels were my joy givers. I loved to read, still do but responsibilities and looking for money don take over. Memories😀

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    1. 😂😂😂
      Me too. Once I sight you with it na to borrow am!
      With time, I graduated to borrowing it from the abokis that were selling it to read and return it later together with newspapers for N20 or N50. Can't remember exactly.
      Little me, I honestly taught all those stories were real.
      Lol!

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  17. God abeg this is bringing back memories

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  18. I doubt if it is still in existence.

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  19. Reading Hints those days especially your gist cafe got Me hooked . First Itwas your name . I say which kind name be this? Lemme read what this Oyinbo person wrote o. The rest they say is history ... 😝

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  20. Gist and breaking news of those days. I was in secondary school during the reign of hints and hearts magazines. I loved the anonymous true life stories in it.

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  21. Hints was banned in my house growing up but I read them in my friends place.

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  22. This hint wan spoil my life. 😂

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  23. Was hearts birthed from hints?

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  24. I always look forward to getting the current edition. I love hints magazine those days.

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  25. I used to buy hints and heart then moved to sun newspaper for the sun girl column

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  26. Hints Magazine one of the best back then,my elder Sisters were always reading them,and they gist me all stories

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  27. Just bcoz I love English grammar & I love reading Love Stories (Mills&Booms & a few others ), Hints replaced those novels for me.Uncle Ibe had a way of playing with words in his write up ,which I learnt from every week, as well as his family’s day to day activities (Dumebi & siblings), all grown now & doing excellently well . I can’t forget d then upgraded Editor In Chief , Amaka Obiefuma ,who later fall my hand for ****& other contributors,then my one & only Stella. Was Hints #50 or #100 then, which was a whole lot but it was a weekly addiction 4me? .Then came Fame (Dele Momodu & his Pendulum corner, FAJ, another brilliant guy that played with words,Mayor Akinpelu & Kunle Bakare). My heart broke when they scattered & Ovation,Excellence, Encomium emerged.Sdk went with Encomium & her Gist Cafe was my first port of call every Tuesday, when RHI was celebrated. No matter how u hid ur antecedents as A-list or rich celebrity, be sure to find ur kurukere gist on Gist Cafe, with us struggling “mathematically” with d clues given to unveil d culprit. Sad how one of my hilarious RHI victims is no more. Talking about “D rich also cry, Bros Migwo, Bvredo , Oscar D’La Renta gist”. Rest on Uncle! I had heaps of those magazines that I ended up selling to Aboki . I can go on & on , when Stella was fearlessly Queen of Exclusivity & here we are.All these ona Nolly swt hearts today, collected from Gist Cafe, no exceptions , as long as ur way no pure, u must collect. Looks like she slowed down for d upcoming, both good & waka pass to have their way. Entertainment News no get flavors anymore abegi .

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  28. I enjoyed reading hints back then

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