I met a lady on my street and deduced she newly moved into the estate. I asked guys around and they said she forms a lot. I said good for me as I like the forming types. In a bid to get attention, I assumed my […]

It was September again. It was drizzling again. Students were back again. Teachers were frustrated again. It was resumption day. The time was past two pm, barely seven hours into the start of a new academic year […]

LIKE MASS SMOKER’S

The most needful may look beautiful but full of soot
I was carried away in a trance at bluebase trans-amadi
Where I peered a cloud of white full of carbon blacks
Not everyone was aware, […]

She gave the tarred road some acrimonious punches in vengeance for drinking the precious blood of her only child. She yelled simultaneously on the earless road as if it could hear her and apologize for its […]

SATIRE 020

I don’t know why Nigeria is this good these days. I don’t know why no one is complaining of hunger and pains. We no longer see dead bodies littered in our streets and no sound of Boko Haram again. I […]

Alewa rummaged through her purse for her car keys at the parking lot. She remembered dropping them in earlier when she got to the doctor’s office. She searched and searched as silent tears trickled down he […]

The lock is broken
The cage is opened
Bird set free
By her captivator
“Stay in ur lane, unworthy creature”
She stares in awe
As she peach to another tree
Unknown to her
She has become a laughing stock
She […]

The Eagles Plight

Few years ago I made friends with an eagle and almost lost my ego.
Early in the morning he picks up my refuge for his breakfast.
And promised to lunch my lovely flag with a warm […]

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Like many African mothers, Obianuju whose name changed to Mama Nneka, was very happy when her child, her world, Nneka decided to stay. She began to walk like many proud African mothers with her […]

Its burning everywhere
Yet people still remain,nobody cares
They say help ll soon come from heaven
I woke up in a city that couldn’t sleep

Tomorrow ll always come
It’s window wont always be […]

How human you will be is your call for the Real Facebook and Real Google to see our body as a home where heaven and earth meet for learning self-governance of human body by Soul. You as Soul or the spirit of […]

“Nnamdi… Nnamdi! Come and see o.” Chika, a sturdily built young man called. Nnamdi walked out from where he sat with a group of friends to where Chika stood. He was obviously taller than Chika. Nnamdi’s body […]

I don’t know why I agreed to go on such a stupid expedition in the first place. Perhaps, it was because I wanted to impress Kiki. Or because I was simply broke and badly in need of cash. However, whatever it was, […]

FOR THOSE WRITERS WHO THINK OF QUITTING

I don’t care to know how many times you have being rejected by magazines and online journals, yes, I don’t care because it is normal things to writers. I don’t care to […]

When sonorous songs of birds woke me from sleep
And I saw mountains and valleys at a glance
All covered with healthy trees, shrubs and grasses
Glistening gracious greenish green
I said wow! Enugu is […]