I walked down to the river bank, darting my eyes around for any sign of human or animal presence. It was dusk. The breeze blew past my face into the trees, and the leaves rattled.I turned left and right again. I was almost at the […]
…of Lizards
Of The Stronger Man
My uncle is muscular. Every morning he’ll wake up by 6am and entertain a number of equally muscular guys at the corner of the house where they lift weight. I’ll get up around 7am and look out through my window to look at the sweaty […]
A ‘Big’ Man’s Tale
When the land was young and I was a younger child and we used to wake up very early to prepare the day’s foods, there was a man who liked my mother. He would come to our restaurant in the day, occupy a corner of […]
EXPLORING YOUR STOMACH’S POTENTIAL
Over the years from the times when my dad would monitor me so I don’t steal minerals cause they were bad for my health, to the times my mom would count the eggs in the bucket to deter me from taking one, to the times […]
How To Kill A Cockroach
It is foolhardy to think that to kill a cockroach, you need to slap it with a broom or slipper or pillow. Haven’t you read or heard that those creatures survive bomb blasts? So what makes you feel that your pillow or soft slippers can […]
Horror Movies…
…made less scary. A safe, tested and trusted way to watch horror movies at any time. The thing about horror movies is that they try so hard to creep us out. Me, I know their tactics.The night I watched The Conjuring, it was some minutes […]
I Was A Detective
Yeah, I was! So, don’t smirk😖 See ehn…the government should come to me for advice. I need to be the one training their supposed detectives. I’m not trying to make mouth, mba. When I did my first detective job, I was still in secondary school. […]
The last we saw of her
We used to run a restaurant where you can get the neatest homemade food around the neighborhood. The cooking process starts the day before and then very early in the morning around 3am so that we can be done with all the foods by 6am. […]
A First Experience
The first time I left home was when I was admitted into a university. I never sabi anything, then. One of the places that spoke loud in the mouth of people was Douglas. After lectures as I went home, it seemed everybody was going to […]
Untitled Sad Tale
If you have ever been in those very rowdy markets in some Eastern parts of Nigeria then you’d know exactly what I’m talking about. I don’t mean the Ariaria Int.market’s kind of busyness, I mean the Ahia Ohuru-on-a-Monday kind of busyness. Ladies who buy and […]
The Tale of A Coward
A Coward Dies… On a street is my mother’s fufu shop. This won’t be the first time you’ve heard of my mother’s fufu shop. No, it’s not, but I’ve not described our shop to you yet. During closure of my mother’s fufu shop, we close […]