THE VOTE CHRONICLES If I had scoffed at seeing this essay topic the day I saw the advertorial on the internet, it was my choice and if I did stop by to give contesting nothing [...]

The incumbent governor of Alanta State received a call that gladdened his heart. In spite of his status, he jumped up and down like a school boy on receiving the great news. The tough-talking electoral [...]

He could see the story vividly in his mind as he made his mental constructions and polished his angles on the way to the interview. For most parts of his adult life, he had wondered [...]

He watched from quite a distance as he had done time and again. His binoculars made his vision a lot more detailed than deprived. Closer than usual, his vision bore clarity and grace as his [...]

“I really liked the advertisement campaign of the DVD party.” “Hmm, I thought the advert bereft of any message, what with all the money at their disposal.” “Frank, you are an incurable critic, nothing pleases [...]

Jennifer glanced around the lecture room she usually studied in and then at her wristwatch. It was 6.00pm,time to head home. ‘Hello!’ She looked up to see Kayode, a 300 level student she had a huge [...]

I hate elections. Well, not quite. After all, no one desires to be an onlooker when important decisions are being made. But Nigeria elections, in my opinion, are an elaborate charade woven in expensive foolery, [...]

He needed the money badly. No, badly was an understatement. He needed the money so…He couldn’t even find the words. How badly could you need something that could save the life of your only son? [...]

LALAM: My friend, what are you doing here? UDAMA: I have bothered myself a lot about government not doing its job. Maybe it is time I bothered myself with doing my job. LALAM: Really, don’t [...]

“Nwakwe for president!” The stout musician said loudly as part of his performance for the Nigeria’s Democratic Party presidential campaign in Abia State. Nwakwe nodded his head slowly, like he was intoxicated by the song, [...]

‘We have a mandate!’ he shouted, but his family didn’t understand what he meant. His ten-year-old son sat down munching his food, as he watched his father break for the umpteenth time, his rule about [...]

She said “I want to vote”. Like I was the ballot box. I looked up, and I saw the sun. Slowly, its rays crept into my carefully inclined lids, and I saw the day had [...]

It was 4:00pm already ,yet i haven’t even taken my afternoon drugs, as a recovering patient that is still recovering from MALARIA. I was too weak even to get up and take my tablets, no [...]

As a graduate of  Theatre Arts, I learnt to conquer stage fright early in life. My acting professor, late Professor Ola Rotimi, reminded us that humans were toothless bulldogs. If they didn’t bite, we had [...]

As the clouds began to rumble, we began to mumble. A moist scent engulfed the air and the atmosphere felt like an ocean-ride. From a distance, the hills seemed to be covered with snow. To [...]

My son’s image looms large as I watch the political campaign on my black and white TV. Sadly, I do not feel my allegiance to him is strong enough to risk empowering him in such [...]

The day for us to choose our governor. The downpour was sudden and so heavy that it stripped the streets of animals; the flood carried soaked posters that bore now-familiar faces of people, who had [...]

As the old man pushed away from the bamboo pier, he turned to wave to the two-year-old boy for whom he was making this particular trip to the local government office – two hours down [...]

Dr Sam Edwin couldn’t believe the state of the weather as he looked out in the direction of the casement from where he sat in his tiny Lagos consulting office room. The weather was cool [...]

A haggard looking young man opens the door to his ‘face me I face you’ room. He shuffles inside, flinging a polythene bag on the rickety table. Pain flashes across his face as he sits [...]

Elections are here again, that time of the year everybody and anybody begins campaigning. That time of the year politicians promise heaven on earth and some promise to tap power supply directly from the sun. [...]

The first time papa prophesied, it was about mama’s accident. He had been drunk and stunk like one dunked in a pool of alcohol. He told her not to step outside that day after he [...]

It is dark, and it is quiet. Night-time has come, and here I am, walking home, tired, dejected, alone. Down this bush path I walk, in a bid to avoid the madness of the streets. [...]

Bayo sank tiredly into the sofa in his bed-sitter. Thank God my break starts tomorrow, he thought. If the management of the plant where he worked had not so designed things that workers went on [...]

Clinton had been waiting at the gate of the staff school for several hours. The ‘University of Benin Staff School’ was the only voter’s registration point in the campus. Clinton wondered how the INEC chairman [...]

Oh God… It’s him. This can’t be happening. “Hi…” That voice. Those eyes. They’re doing the same thing they’ve always done. Weaken me. They disarm. They pierce… Yet, somehow they comfort. They reassure. They make [...]

“Ya Allah na ba ka zuciya naaa… Ya Allah na ba ka rayuwa naaa…” Jeremiah Gyang’s sweet song sailed from her father’s small radio into her soul. Zainab sat, as she did most mornings, frying [...]

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Martial Arts. The Way of the Warrior. Ancient fighting arts that have been around for so long that the origin of most of them have become blurred. The ancient and popular arts of Karate, Taekwondo, [...]

“Undress yourself and lie flat on your back.” He said to me, his tone deceptively calm. I groaned inwardly, because I knew it was going to come to this. I had even prepared myself subconciously- [...]

N.B: This is a HALF-fiction!! “On issues of life today, we will be talking about a very unusual but real life experience of a mother & her 13year old daughter. Actually, my guest has just [...]

Body, mind and soul, Everyone’s threefold, Synergy on a roll, Lives lived in each other’s hold.