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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

    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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

There are devils behind every door. I see them in dark corners but Jumai says it’s just my fevered imagination. The lights hurt my eyes and have been put out. I get up and close [...]

DEEPER THAN LOVE I WAS DEAF TO ITS CALL I DEFIANTLY FOUGHT I REFUSED TO SUBMIT BUT ITS POWER MADE AN ASS OF ME I PONDERED AND WANDERED INTO ITS DEPTS I REMEMBERED SAVOURED THE [...]

When I was a young boy, My mother had said to me severally, That I am free to pursue my education in the west, To visit my friends in the south, To establish my business [...]

The stars have clearly begun to align for Nollywood.  Like the beautiful bride, corporate suitors it seems, have turned out in a duel for the hands of some of Nollywood’s brightest stars. It gets better, [...]

“Tolulope”!!! I almost jumped out of my skin on recognizing the voice….. Wait, is that not? (No it couldn’t be) my Dad’s Voice?? I could hear my heartbeat as it increased its pace while I [...]

She is Onyinye A masterpiece of God’s craft Mother Nature’s work of art Tanned in bursting splendour Fortifies the heart in super Valor Her hair weaved in dread Greatly knitted and braide She is Onyinye [...]

Hey you all, there goes Bimbo Cute isn’t she? She has got a pretty scarf on Am sure you must have heard her story Its’ got a bad twist that fills me with fury See [...]

The beginning.   Meeting Femi was unbelievable. It was the most awkward meeting you can imagine, embarrassing as well, but definitely awkward. My friends and I had travelled up to the swamps for research purposes. [...]

Come away with me into the night Far away where the world is at peace In silence, in solitude, in strength Into the deepest night we shall sail Where the sky shall be our canopy [...]

I haven’t lived a hundred years and my hairs still have their colours intact. But what I’ve seen could make a beautiful love story and rival ‘Scary movie II’ all in one package. I have [...]

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to… yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can [...]

I saw your face through the fog, as step by step you walked towards me. Smitten I tried but could not move, till right before me you stood tall and elegant. You took my hands [...]