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layrite wrote a new post, 2013 Unilorin Prizes for Literature: SHORTLISTS 1 week, 1 day ago

After five weeks of intensive work by the committee and our external judges on the 72 entries we received, we hereby release the preliminary results of the 2013 UNILORIN Prizes for Literature.

UNILORIN/Esiaba […]

layrite commented on the post, The Kwani? Manuscript Project Longlists 30 Titles 2 months, 1 week ago

Yeah! @kayceenj

layrite commented on the post, Kill the Mother 2 months, 1 week ago

Sir @daireenonline: been awhile, hasn’t it? Thanks for the lecture. Maybe I will take some of the tips under advisement. What I attempted is not the typical just laugh kinda ramblin, but it seems it didn’t work […]

layrite commented on the post, Kill the Mother 2 months, 1 week ago

@stnaija: gracias, it seems you are in the minority of those who enjoyed the piece. We should share some drink soon.

@wendeekay: misspelled the name.

layrite commented on the post, Kill the Mother 2 months, 1 week ago

@weedeekay: Thanks for your honesty. So I didn’t pull it off…for you. Disappointing. Hope it wasn’t a total waste of time though.

layrite wrote a new post, Igbeyawo – Marriage in the Ancestors Time 2 2 months, 1 week ago

The love visits

I am very thrilled to show a very green side of the past which the reader probably never thought existed. What we commonly hear as the excuse for dating from testosterone filled teenagers […]

layrite wrote a new post, Kill the Mother 2 months, 2 weeks ago

I was about to spread my tired bones on the mattress and wander my mind through the numerous corners it rounded every night when the agents who served darkness made a call on my street- as the president had […]

layrite wrote a new post, Igbeyawo, Marriage during our Ancestors’ times. 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Yoruba culture is very colorful and beautiful. One of the aspects of culture that are usually of interest to many people is Marriage, the way it is done, the steps and the manner by which it is carried out is […]

layrite commented on the post, PREMIUM TIMES Centenary Essay Competition – N500,000 in Prizes 2 months, 2 weeks ago

nice!

layrite wrote a new post, Unilorin Prizes For Literature: Call For Entries 3 months ago

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Promoting literacy, literature and local languages

UNILORIN PRIZES FOR LITERATURE: CALL FOR ENTRIES

We are now accepting entries for the following prizes instituted for […]

layrite wrote a new post, Verses for Fatimah I 4 months ago

Fatimoh,

I know your name

Oceans roar on its invocation

Splashing salty soot at tall palms

Lions and tigers mellow

Granting amnesty to entrapped games

And the square Iroko ceases shelling […]

layrite wrote a new post, The Day After Yesterday I 4 months ago

It rained yellow yesterday

Elephants called for Lion’s ouster

We could dance through the land

In brown socks Lord Bold wore

We could disregard the weather warning

Weather men are ignorant of […]

layrite wrote a new post, AJUWAYA ANTHOLOGY: Call for Submission 4 months, 3 weeks ago

For National Youth Service Corps Members Only
It was as I walked past some excited Corps members practicing some exotic dance steps that the idea occurred to me. What better way for Corps members to chronicle […]

layrite commented on the post, A blip of Imperfection 5 months, 2 weeks ago

@Omojola: Some concentration to the story would have helped. I sure didn’t have problem reading and enjoying this. This style of going back “in time and all that” is nothing new and I think @enoquin used it well […]