“Ekaette! Eka…..where is that girl sef?” My ten year old son peered at me over his handheld game. “Hmmm, if you’re planning to give her those clothes to wash, I guess you’re intending never to Read More
Feb 272013
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Dec 032012
“The Lord sent Jonah to Nineveh to the…the lord sent Jonah to the people of….the lord sent…aaargh!” I groaned in frustration. This just wasn’t working. I wasn’t cut out for any kind of reading. If Read More
Oct 262012
I put one foot forward. Then another. Then the previous one. Then the other. With each step I took, my heart seemed o beat louder in my chest, like a performance of a star gangan Read More
Oct 132012
I had presented myself at the Principal’s secretary’s office and was about telling her that the Principal had sent for me when I heard a voice from his office bellow; “MARY! MARY! COME HERE IMMEDIATELY!” Read More
Oct 112012
“……you have been accused of getting into students’ lockers at night, eating their provisions and wreaking havoc on their other properties in addition to the constant noise you make that regularly prevents students from sleeping Read More
Sep 222012
“…..and I don’t even know what to do. She says she still wants to be with me but acts like she doesn’t. In fact, I’m just tired, tired of this whole….” So was I; tired Read More
Sep 122012
“OPEN THIS GATE!” a shrill female voice yelled. I stood and stared at the sea of humanity that stretched out before me. We were amassed outside the gates of the Government Secondary School, our center Read More
Aug 102012
“These crazy people”, my boss huffed under his breath. PHCN had done exactly what they knew how to do best. The problem with this for me was that the cybercafé where I worked as an Read More
May 242012
Of course, I got to lectures late. What self respecting big boy like me comes to lectures early? That’s for all those silly efficos that carry textbooks bigger than their heads with authors whose names Read More
May 182012
I was in class. I wasn’t in class. I was physically in class but my mind was far away from it. Or at least, far away from whatever it was that the lecturer was droning Read More