For Magdalene Aghator (Who Died, on 30.1.2012 in an Accident)   INTRO: Sudden bells toll’d They bore your news And yet though whispers Our wishes wore masks True confessions We wished a thousand years And Read More

The following 30 stories have undergone developmental and copyediting by the editorial team and been finalized for the Naijastories Anthology. In the next few weeks, the Anthology will be released to the general market. Read Read More

There is a need to expand the literary space to accommodate everyone with a noble idea to share with humanity. But often, the chances and choices are few, too few, especially for writers to share Read More

 At the third crow of the cock When God declined the supplication of the flock Gathered at the shrine of the rock The seeds of the throne Were gathered to be sown Desperate not to Read More

Lemme start this way; what is history? If you have a dictionary there, check it up, I don’t have one here. But I think history is pretty much what happened in the past that has Read More

Even nature seemed to acknowledge my arrival by the way the trees gyrated in response to the cool evening breeze that blew with a familiar melody: w-e-l-c-o-m-e t-o a w-h-o-le n-e-w w-o-r-l-d. This natural ovation Read More

Dad, Now those pictures in my Mind Will always be there, Standing firm all day, Watching me closely, Looking down at my heart While its weight Becomes my burden. The pictures of the days When Read More

01/12/2011    For my only Tunde. Kola stood at the altar, struggling to conceal the nervousness drumming in his ears. He stared out at the edgy, anxious faces of his friends and family looking up at Read More

    God Almighty, First Mansion on the Street of Gold, Off Somewhere in Outer Space, Heaven City. P.O.BOX:  0001     Dear God, How are you Sir? Hope all is well? It has been Read More

I was just having a walk when I met you I was looking for nobody when you looked my way That killer smile— had but to smile back.   Give me a minute and listen Read More

NANCY’S DIARY IS ABOUT A NORMAL NIGERIAN TEENAGER WHO HAS GONE THROUGH NUMEROUS EXPERIENCES AND HAVING NO ONE TO TALK TO, SHE CONFIDES IN A DIARY THAT IS NOT EVEN HER OWN, THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF NANCY’S DIARY IN VIEW OF MANY MORE TO COME.

A: one must lay down his defenses in the face of the truth. B: yes, yes, most certainly. But what is the truth?   One afternoon, kasali, a journalist in a regional newspaper with a Read More

It’s been two months now since you’d left I’m all by myself, lonely and boring. Your memory flood my mind daily I can’t get them out of my being.. I remember; our laughter our late Read More

Jenifer was having a field day; she had been waiting for this day for what had seemed to be forever and finally the day had come. With her heart beating very fast, she coiled herself Read More

At times like now when times are hard It behoves on you whether to be glad or sad The world will press you hard To make it hard not to be sad But it behoves Read More

Reena’s heart stopped at the sound of the clear baritone cackling and rolling out heavy Igbo dialect that reverberated in the chilled evening air; Drum! A hot wave shot through her at his thought, and Read More

“Get your rickety car off the road punk!!!” an idiot yelled to Gboyega. He thought ‘how can a person in a 1985 Toyota Corolla call this, a Volkswagen CC, a rickety car. Well, blame it Read More

  Introduction by Tunde Dawodu Critic/Correspondent, Daily Times Newspaper. “The diary Of a Boy Soldier” “The Diary of a Boy Soldier,” takes its title from the sobriquet used for trainees of theNigerianMilitarySchool,Zaria. The Boy Soldier Read More

Nwaigwe still felt tired, the previous day’s four hour journey from Enugu was still telling on her. Next time, she would not be the last passenger who fuses herself into an overloaded bus and forces Read More

A short piece on cancer awareness. Two strangers met on a night bus traveling from Port-Harcourt to Lagos… two strangers that have just discovered they have cancer.