She picks up immediately with a frantic hello – like she had been expecting my call. Hearing her voice floods me with an indescribable joy; I know immediately that I am doing the right thing. [...]
Apr 052012
MCO II
Mar 302012
I run over to what remains of the Camry oblivious of the glass and metal slashing my stockings and cutting into my bare feet. There is this sinking feeling in my guts. The Mac hit [...]
Mar 272012
My plane landed at about noon in Uyo. I thought of calling Bella at the office but decided against it. I would go home, take a shower, and go surprise her at the office. I [...]
Mar 242012
About a month after my 27th birthday, I was listed along with some other colleagues for advanced courses abroad. Isabella would have come along but she was making a mark in her work place, rapidly [...]
Mar 222012
I can’t really remember but I think my first words to her were ‘It will fall’. I had just tidied up the Chemistry laboratory which the Students’ Representative Council had used as venue for one [...]
Feb 052012
Onyia Towers is a three-storeyed building erected in the heart of Umuchima, one of the neighbouring four rural communities of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. It is a popular off-campus residence or lodge (as [...]
Dec 062011
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” The above words of Irish poet and Nobel laureate William B. Yeats so aptly describe [...]
Dec 032011
I grew up in a family where equality was upheld. My sister, older than me by just over a year, always came first. She got the first pick of goodies, she got the first bicycle, [...]
Mar 092011
TEARS OF MY HEART Wednesday, December 15, 2010, I sat at home in a pair of boxer shorts watching a movie. The time was about 11am but I was on holiday and considered an occasional [...]
Jun 162010
The male driver of the car who looked to be in dad’s age bracket kept darting suspicious glances at us while honking his horn for the gate to be opened to him. I was thinking [...]
Jun 152010
From behind the driver’s seat, the sight of rural unpolluted Enugu is enchanting. Unlike the recently ‘opened up’ neighborhoods of 9th mile and the likes with their aesthetic beauty borne of the governor’s mission of [...]