“I’ll be in Lagos soon. I’ll stay only a few days. I can’t wait to see you”, Tricia, my old friend says.
She lives in Abuja, and is just out of a two year relationship with her boyfriend.
We’ll go to the mall. […]

Nothing in Caca’s seventy years of existence could have prepared her for this experience. Not even when she had given birth to her son fifty years ago in a midwife’s hut called MY CHILD far away from civilisation. […]

You walk into Eyes Of The Beholder salon down the road with high hopes and aspirations of a harvest of compliments all week long. It is Saturday and your upkeep day. After walking a few kilometres, you happen on […]

You have just closed your eyes in sleep — a different kind of sleep, and then you hear someone calling your name and you find yourself slowly slipping to the other side. But you are still hearing your loved […]

Just as I was about to climb aboard my father’s rickety Toyota for a ride to the airport, I looked back and watched my mother and my siblings. Hands akimbo, eyes shiny with tears. The entire neighbourhood was out […]

It was on a muddy path between Iya Kike and Iya Morayo’s Coca-cola kiosks on Araromi Street,that Atimore walked,neck bent,collar upturned against the drizzle of the rain,cold hands warmed in the pockets of his […]

The shrill ring of the alarm broke through her torpor.

It grated on her nerves.She had been dreaming of her hair being blown about by the wind as she drove in a topless convertible.She struggled to pry her eye […]

And God said, “It is not good for man to be alone”

This is the most quoted scripture in the Bible. It is quoted in reference to only, perhaps marriage.
But could there have been a deeper and more far reaching […]

“There are so many ways to be a rat in my house and I know you know them already, since you have settled down quite nicely.
In your greed, just like Lot, when Abraham lovingly offered him […]

Dear N,
I felt it important to write you this letter on this day when you turn fifty.
It is heartfelt and I hope you will read it with the same gravity with which I have written it.

Do you know, that I am not […]

One day, Mrs Effiong returned home after a trip to the market to discover that the money she had set aside for the baby’s christening dress was short. Of one thousand naira. She had a hard time reconciling her […]

The ceiling fan was making a whirr whirr sound, swaying from side to side in a last desperate attempt to do the work for which it was made; to circulate air. The Power Holding Company had just emasculated it. […]