TRIBAL SENTIMENTS

He used to work for my dad years ago. He was the guard and also the gate attendant when he was on duty. He was quiet and elderly, slim and soft-spoken. The way he walked seemed to tell me that he had things done for him in his growing up days. Don’t blame me please, I read people from how they walk to how they look and even how they pose in their pictures and seriously it works for me […]

Read more

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

We sat outside the clinic, watching the movement in the busy streets below. Just then my Whatsapp beeped a signal and I reached for my phone. As I read the text that just came in, I smiled. I couldn’t hold it to myself, I told my closest staff what had just come in. A friend of mine who just completed a training had been hunting for a job. He was in dire need of a source of income and I […]

Read more

SURVIVING SINGLENESS

I have been single for…how long now? Geez! All my life. I was born single, I got born again single and here I am, still single. It’s been a glorious time being single I must tell you. I feel fulfilled and it has nothing to do with whatever it is I may have obtained academically or otherwise. I have just been able to live out the little dreams in my head and take the risks I have always longed to […]

Read more

HONOURED

 I sat as I listened to the long list of distinguished Nigerians who have changed the terrain of our country in their respective fields. It was the live show of the centenary anniversary on the television. I knew more of them than I thought I did and the ones I didn’t know, I was still glad to know what they had done to receive such national honours. The honours were nothing compared to the deeds. I was touched, so touched […]

Read more