The third serialization of my booklet on the Nigerian conflict between 1966-1970.
Like a ghost town Making my thought leap Ifite the hub of busy bees Now dry of ululation They are about to go to the poll Seeking our thumbs’ prints For their paunchy belly With Read More
Na where be dis? Our eyes don see pepper No be small Na only Papa God Go help us Na inside labyrinth we dey so! Our countrymen no know Where dem stand De journey still Read More
We are the songbirds; The mavis The waves are still the same And even worst They are the waves And came with ‘goody-goody’ Asking for our sweet voices For the river goddess to allow them Read More
My lips speak earnestly to make them see. Their eyes are wide open but blanketed in mist The rape of love and trust around us- is not a fallacy Their eyes sees it clearly but Read More
At the pinnacle of a pyramid No voice will remain unsung An empire, an ideal prime As old Babylon blasts higher The wary grow older Society withers away from innocence All engines glowing The man at Read More
The game of rags and black water Higher and much lower they go Always seeking the tops of this and that Flapping their dirt to those who dare to look Always holding on onto vane Read More

Mma Tata’s dark glittering skin had seen tough days, and that morning, it was clothed by the dust which spread as cars drove through St Bonaventure’s dual-passage gate under the dry weather. Beaten by the Read More
Walking on my toes, silently, from the bedroom into the kitchen; I cut into the big loaf of bread with the sharpest knife on the cabinet long before you wake. I want no sounds heard; Read More
CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor at his 40th anniversary celebration The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) under the leadership of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has come under heavy criticism in recent times for being too close Read More
At first glance I look like a kid. Most people say I look like I have just ended puberty and begun my adolescence. I smile. In a way this is right. I’d say I have just Read More

I blame the fathers for the situation of the present Though some may claim that they were absent But the situation of things Gives little or no room for any to be left out of Read More
It’s just one of those moments when my mind spins on its orbit and my heart traces and retraces varied paths my consciousness has travelled. Now, I’m wondering what constitutes the subsistent element of human Read More

I once read in the Nigerian National dailies about a senior army official who killed someone because he accidentally smashed the army man’s car. The civilian was pleading for his life when the army official Read More

I felt the presence of thunder But earth never want to ponder I felt the presence of an earthquake But the earth still standing astake Do we stand and watch the the Read More

What a huge distress upon a stress What a good heart housing upon a satanic arena A country worth a giant Now nothing but a beetle A beetle is a mighty discription But Read More