Some say love is a thing of the heart, a divine, selfless decision one takes in relation to another. I am bound to agree, but truth be told, I never understood love. I am not [...]
May 172012
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Apr 292012
The whole class heaved a sigh of relief when Dr Abajingin decided to call it a day. We’d been in class for four straight hours supposedly listening to EEG 401 lectures. The course, Electromechanical Wave [...]
Apr 132012
We strolled leisurely towards Aunty Kemi’s shed at the Mammy Market. Aunty Kemi’s was our preferred drinking joint for one sole reason: she allowed us drink on credit! When drinking was all you did in [...]
Apr 072012
The Facebook Invite flashed to the right of my screen as I made to check my notifications. Usually, I disregard most Invites even before reading them but there was something about this one that made [...]
Jan 222012
When news spread round the University campus that the final results had been pasted, you didn’t feel elated like everyone else. Instead, you rolled over on your three-and-a-half inches bed and whispered a silent prayer [...]
Jan 202012
As a Jehovah’s Witness, going out on evangelism is a certainty. It’s what makes you worthy of the appellate in the first place. From the place of worship, you were put in a group of [...]
Jan 052012
December 25, 2000; Abeokuta. Whoever believes Christmas is the birthday of Christ must be living in fantasy land; a land peopled by fat, heavily-bearded, sack-carrying men in oversized red habiliments. To me and people of [...]
Nov 012011
I fell in love with her the very first day we met. It was not love at first sight; no, it was more of love sown at the first meeting. I had gone to the [...]
Oct 022011
It took me exactly thirty three days to know I was pregnant. Up until then, we still maintained contact by phone. But the day I discovered I was pregnant and told him was the last [...]
Sep 302011
I have always believed miracles were restricted to the corridors of religion; but what I was witnessing -not in a church nor mosque- cannot be called by any other name. Seated across from me was [...]
Sep 042011
It started one cool Saturday morning. Dad had gone to one of his club’s Saturday outings and is not expected back till late in the evening. I was in my room trying to solve some [...]
Aug 242011
The images from that day stuck with me like some love scene from a Ghollywood movie. Suddenly, I found myself withdrawn from Sister Folake, who was, until then, my favourite sibling. And going to church [...]
Aug 222011
The second term was much more difficult than I thought. It didn’t occur to me that I wouldn’t do logarithms forever. The topics in the second term were more unseemly than the first. Before I [...]
Aug 192011
I was sure something was wrong when dad drove in like a cultured man whose bowels earnestly sought to heed the call of nature. With every rev of the engine, dad’s VW beetle coughed repeatedly [...]
Jun 152011
Few things sway me Not even the ultimate: death A lot bothers me Sometimes scaring me to death
Jun 092011
I crawl my way through life Seeking everything at once To be this, that, all the time Bidding, hoping and striving To achieve all I ever want At times, I do Often times, I don’t. [...]
May 272011
Up until that fateful day, the Dean never resumed at work later than 9am. Not only did he come into the office –always already full of students and visitors alike seeking his attention– at three [...]
Apr 102011
A harmless phone call was all posterity used to keep me alive. Without that fated call, I’d either be six feet under the ground, if the grave digger wasn’t drunk beyond his analytical limit; or [...]
Mar 282011
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, [...]
Mar 092011
He felt it. Something told him everything was not right. What was it? He slowed his pace and checked his watch. 11:27pm. He looked right and left. Nothing. Except for a group of three night crawlers, [...]
Feb 272011
LONG BEFORE THE FINAL WHISTLE He never wanted to be Governor. Providence, cloaked in the habiliments of strife between the sitting Governor and his much–favoured deputy, catapulted him to the front burner of the state’s [...]
Feb 242011
The school bell sounded and as if on cue, the students began a mad rush for the exit gate. Their mass, a barely distinguishable assembly of kids of varying sizes in the white on grey [...]
Feb 072011
When our eyes met, the skins on my forehead, reminiscent of a lizard’s elbow, wrinkled with recognition. The wrinkles gave way to widened eyes as soon as the face threw up a name in my [...]
Jan 232011
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