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If you thought you wouldn’t miss your grown-up daughter when she left for the mandatory NYSC service, you were wrong. Laide was a computer geek who didn’t care if everyone had a proper meal at [...]

Evidence of a passage Threatened as a girl age Never to be attributed to the faceless Lest its essence becomes baseless As the ripples of the sea is felt And the rain drizzle as droplet So does [...]

Every shimmering gold ignites amidst searing flames so let my pleasures burn to ashes while chiselling these shards of dreams into a masterpiece today, tomorrow and the day after until I [...]

“Wen, wen”, the baby cried out again. It’s 3:00 am in the morning and she had not closed her eyes for a second. She had fed him, cooed him and even sang for him but he won’t stop crying. The [...]

I was five years old when I woke up to a flooded house. Cloudy water poured in through the door and then through the open windows. Bearing pieces of wood, grass, and whatever else could float. [...]

Life was unpredictable until Egbon swept her off her feet like the giant walls of Jericho never meant to be rebuilt. When she fell in love, it was a painful but educational experience. And, it [...]

Remember when you told her “You will keep this love story for a long time if we’re to do this. “She stored your love story in a tightly lidded purple jar placed carefully in her bedside cupboard. [...]

I was fourteen and had just written the JSCEs. I had nothing else to do so I spent all my time in my room, playing video games and perusing sultry paperbacks whenever the power went out. My [...]

I sensed its demise from the outset, As I peered into his profound brown eyes, A shade unfamiliar, captivating my thoughts, An unreal hue, blending beauty and charm, Yet, twinkling with a subtle [...]

I dance in the shadows, oblivious to the distinctions that reason imposes. | Like a blindfolded wanderer, I navigate the labyrinth of souls, guided solely by the echoes of shared laughter and [...]