Would You Tell Your Best Friend If His/her Partner Is Cheating?
Would You Tell Your Best Friend If His/her Partner Is Cheating? True friendship is an amazing thing. However, it has its setbacks. One main characteristic of a true friendship is honesty. All of us thrive, or even request honesty from our friends, but when we get it, sometimes instead of appreciating it, we get angry … Continue […]
The Last Curse (Chapter 5)
CHAPTER 5 Mrs Ibe grabbed my braids and smacked my head hard to the floor. I swear I heard my skull split into two. Lights exploded in my eyes. It was like watching fireworks sparkle in a night sky. It reminded me of the stars that … Continue Reading ››
Enough of Mere Men
Conformists fall for anything, Driven by others’ opinions like a leaf in the wind, The world is full of men who just want to blend in, Men who would sell their voice even if the world’ll come to ruin. History has its heroes, history has its villains, History has its record full of men who lived in vain, Men who cannot think for […]
Follow Your Dreams
“When you cease to dream you cease to live”, wise words from the great Malcolm Forbes, the astute businessman whose net worth is over $1 billion. Let’s take Martin Luther King Jr. whose pivotal message in his speech was having a dream. These two great men both had dreams and endured to see their dreams […]
Sydney
The plane was deafening. He could hear loud voices, distressed complaints, of people griped strangely by impatience. His tired eyes searched around. An Indian girl was smiling vehemently at a Nigerian man in his forties, who was about to take the seat beside her. A large Chinese woman struggled in haste, approaching Michael, through one […]
Inception
I walk alone along in the dark night three streets away from home staring blindly at the starry sky trying to find several answers to the many questions from my daughter. Where is mummy? She has asked over a thousand times and the echoes of her single question had … Continue Reading ››
Unbreak My Heart – EPISODE FIVE
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” – G.K. Chesterton Nathan stared out the car window. He was sitting at the back seat of the jeep, content now to be left alone to his thoughts. The Mode Men magazine lay on his laps, open and […]
Treasure and the lucky digger (PART 5)
My phone began to burst with calls and romantic text messages from Elizabeth. Each time I saw those texts I would laugh bitterly before deleting them. As for the calls, I kept rejecting them. I was not a type of guy that would insult a girl on phone. On one occasion I didn’t have the […]
Demons On Church Street : Episode Five
Rhoda was having a great week. Life was good without her parents staring at her, watching her every move. She knew her friends were probably not the best friends one could have but they had freedom, something she had always longed for. She had nagged and sulked until her parents had agreed to let her […]
I Have A Little Story
The poem is about a young girl who was raped at 6 and the aftermath of the rape on her psychologically. Title: I HAVE A LITTLE STORY I have a little story Excerpt from my allegory Hope and Island of Great Glory It’s all about poor Glory A very little ‘cherry’ Who had a sorry […]
2014: No More Drama
It’s been an amazing year and if we take our time to take a slow drive through how the year has unfolded, we would reflect on the memories made; the good, bad and ugly ones. We would or reflect on the friends we lost and the new ones we met, the heartbreaks and the new […]
Centenary Sentiments
In 1914 Nigeria became a country now 100 years later the incumbent president decided to invite everyone around the world to celebrate, our achievements, may be our defeat or perherps trials and tribulations. Personally I think that a lot is at stake. In 1966 unity schools were created by the federal government to promote unity […]
Love Is…
My Heart beats with anticipation My lips dry out as I behold the beauty of love So much talked about, but little seen I’m in love Not with a person But with love itself How beautiful it feels… (Sighs) Eldorado I’ve searched so much for love And finally I’m here Home to a place where […]
Last Slaves
First they came for the body Broke and grinded into bones Towers made from blood and sweat As the new world comes They attacked the mind Forced our voice, taking souls Wear gold and melt heart Airplanes dropping on circled zones Back to the caves, time to drone in We are the last slaves The […]
Why Do Women Forgive Cheats And Men Don’t?
Apparently most women tolerate their man straying and making relationship ‘errors’ couple of times before thinking of dumping them, but only very few men would stay with a woman who strayed. So just WHY are women so tolerant of cheating? We see it again and again, a man strays, lies, and cheats on his wife […]