“Mfon, get up! The pastor would soon be here.” My mother gently shook me awake. I dreaded the visit of the pastor for whatever reason and could never be enthusiastic even for my mother’s sake. [...]

ONE I sat on a stool very close to the pavement of the gutter hoping every passer-by can glance at my direction and drop anything in their pocket into the blue bowl in front of [...]

Story telling is one of the most precious and appreciated gifts that humanity could have been endowed with. “Tales at Nighttime” celebrates this gift in a dedicated segment four nights every week on smooth 98.1’s [...]

      Only 51 years ago Was Nigeria reborn From the epic of transitive orphanage Both colonial and imperial we all felt The British lust for bloods and bones!   They captured and tortured [...]

An ex-president while on a long journey by road got hungry and he decided to make a stop at the next town he reaches. On arrival, he located the best restaurant in town & went [...]

The blood would not stop flowing. It had been 3 days. Nsa and Wonuoma had promised me 3 days at most. Well, Nsa had initially said 2 days but Wonuoma had retorted that Nsa was [...]

Ekundayo looked at him and then immediately past him as if he were transparent. She didn’t say anything and went back to what she was doing, her long blue dress billowing around her. Emmanuel couldn’t talk [...]

‘Hello’ he said in a politely calm voice devoid of any impatience. ‘Hello Madam, Good Afternoon.’ ‘Feyi Ojo on the line, please how can I help you?’ ‘Madam, I’m Yomi Thomas from Nikon Hilson Hotel [...]

Nneka walked away from the river with her water pot balanced expertly  on her head. She hurried because the sky was getting cloudy and thunder was rumbling in the distance. Securing her wrapper, she looked [...]

Another bomb-blast like the wind, it came so fast trapping us in an old mesh making our old wounds fresh   when will it end we are finding it hard to fend as we live [...]

Kanayo took a deep breath, pushed the revolving door, and strolled confidently into the bank. He was sharply dressed in an expensive grey pinstripe suit, crisp white shirt, purple silk tie, and dark brown Ferragamo [...]

I  was  mortal, the  4th  alafin, Old Oyo’s  warrior king, walked in the streets, hunt in the forest, drank oxygen daily, alas I killed myself, with lightning bolts, Did I die in peace? no,they made [...]

A CHRISTMAS TALE (BLOOD AND FIRE)     I have a story for you, and I promise you, it is true… …. Christmas Eve, 2011. That’s when I find her. It is dark, almost midnight. [...]

I sit outside my house, my mind clear and vacant. The sun shines mildly but brightly. I watch the trees sway, dancing to the energetic tunes of the wind. I ask myself, “do the trees [...]

I spend my time alone Silent, Thinking Of someone special. We gaze into each other’s eyes Silent, The feelings we share Are too much for words. I lie in my room Silent, Tears dripping down [...]

March, 20th 2011 John Chuks has rehearsed the scene in his head over and over again the night before, the scene of how he was going to die and who would be responsible for his [...]

  She Said “Never Again” Never again, would I stoop low To offer myself as a sacrificial lamb To the wimp and caprices of any Who isn’t my husband.   Those days when I gave [...]

To us they come with caps in hand

To wail and weep for our voting stand

Some empty promises they also cry

To take the Nation to heights so high;

    As I sit here writing under a tussled willow Tree In the village of Ifatumobi’ As I write.. Most of the brandish leafs is waxed to the wind roar Only the naked trunks [...]

If you want to get the word out, you can telegraph, telephone or tell-a-woman…   SUGHUR-SHA-TER-AÔNDO-KWA-HEMBA-U-GA   Sughur-sha-ter-aôndo-kwa-hemba-u-ga Screams my name Fully knit without the apostrophe Cutting the impact of a lot   It was [...]

Exams are here, shaking and blowing the weak, students abandon games,television,relationships and sleep, just to get a shot at excellence. Exams are here, students prepare various arsenal, some abandon God for their books, while others [...]

    In the crack of yesterday’s sunrise I torment myself with many idiotic memories All men past the age of twenty have learnt Somewhat of the tricks of women The pretty playful nothings That [...]

The hotel management got a clue to who he was, when they checked their entry log. He was booked in as Dr. Dimeji Onasanya. Now that his name was found , it was immediately conveyed [...]

It’d been a frustrating experience for Nduka. A single compound housing two adjoining buildings facing the other, 24 rooms yet just a single bathroom and toilet for the over 50 occupants with each apartment housing [...]

It was about ten years ago when I was in Thalitha Ibtidahi (Arabic School equivalent of Primary Six), one of my tutors told us in a Fiqh Class (Jurisprudence Class) that it was Shirk (act [...]

I was a shy young leaf on a little tree. Our tree was little. Yes, we knew. We knew because the other trees never made us forget it. We heard it all the time. We [...]

I did not choose to be a witch, it was passed down to me by my grandmother on her dying bed, apparently generations of my family were witches and my dearest mother is one too. [...]

In the next five days, you will turn one! You will be 365 days old on the surface of the earth. Before we start counting, I want us to set the record straight. In the wise words of the Yoruba people, ti omode o ba ba itan, yio ba aroba. Aroba niyi baba itan ni.

I have been looking down through this window at the political gladiators and power-drunk money-bags sitting on the beggars’ plate miserable beggars begging for the can’t-do-withouts of life   they build shelters of shame and [...]

The yellow taxi came to a halt by the side of the road. She stepped down from the car, pulled out a couple of notes from her purse and paid the driver who sped off [...]

Life is Beautiful Life is a cup that is brimming Life is all about faithfulness Life may be Kind Life may be Wicked but have faith. ii) Mother: brags I will raise a better man, [...]

Autumn came like the whisper of breeze, walking through a field of Roses, so beautiful like blood, Beauty came to the world in a minute, Beauty in death, the Red Roses sleeping on the floor, [...]