When I give people advice to be patient and the person needs to receive it like it always be mentioned before. Impatience is one of the greatest weakness and I suggest it come from unrealistic expectations

If I simply explained to you the greatest business secret, you'd perhaps just yawn and say that everyone is aware of that. Then you have forget it and that judging with the quality of service render in

"You gave it to me?" "I did, Bala! You must have dropped it!" Bala stared at me, and then said, "Ah, i remember now. I had it when we were coming here. I must have dropped it as

Bala's special place was a hideout. It was a cave in a clump of huge rocks at the back of the motor park. Patches of tall dried grass grew here and there on the rocks. If you climbed up from the back of

We would have to find someone from lagos if it's English you want. Lagos people are expensive. Is it English?" "I don't know. But I can show you." I thrust my hand under my tattered dashiki

"Yes." "Didn't the person who taught you to read go there?" Bala laughed. "Who says I know how to read? No one in the almajirici knows how to read." I was shocked. "But

In Ode as at then, no one knew about primary and secondary schools. There was no idea of going to a university also. The best parents could give their male children was to make the best hunters, farmers,

I let out a long breath, "I have heard of lagos. They say it's like heaven." "Or hell," said Bala. "Hello?" Bala nodded. "It's depend on what side of lagos you see. It

Today, we mark the birth of another generation of great Ode children who will fight from wherever we stop. They shall bring honour to their parents and the entire Odeland, Baale said prophetically. Aaamiii

I had never seen so many vehicles parked in one place before, or so many people milling about. I was dumbstruck."Don't leave your mouth open like that," Bala told me. "A fly might enter.

The boys chuckled along with their captain, and I sighed with relief. "You need money to learn how to read," Bala told me. "Money?" "Money -- a lot of money." I wasn't expecting

His eye burrowed into me. "Is that the work you join us to do? Do you think we are here to play? Get back to your group. We are here to work!" I turned away. But I didn't go back to my group.

For the naming ceremony of their twins. Mr and Mrs Bayo invited the best drummers, cooks, jesters, dancers and entertainers from far and fear. The town crier was paid to invite guests from Ode and nearby

Now I did, just so that someone could teach me to read my storybook. Three years went by with my desire growing and growing, and then I was ten. I was ten at last! A man everyone called mallam took aside

What I had wanted most in the world was for mother to get well. But mother had died. Now what i wanted most in the was to learn to read the story book she had made me promise to read. It was my prize

But with a large farmland and plenty of food and riches, Bayo never considered himself a happy man for a reason almost everybody in Ode village was beginning to know or find hard to believe. As tradition

Long before the white men came to Africa, that is about hundreds of years ago, there lived in Ode village a hardworking and a sincere farmer called Bayo Idowu. He had a very beautiful wife named Iyami.

Take of those alms bowls and go. Atta grumbled a-few moment But finally did as his captain ordered. Now I was alone alone with Bala. I was alone with the leader of the gang of boy robbers. They were boy

“That is why you have to earn a lot of money. See those buses over there.” I followed his pointing finger. “Someone from one of those buses can teach you to read.” “So those buses are going to Lagos?”

“I’m an orphan,” I assured Bala, my face still blank. So wildly was my heart beating that I thought I heard my bones rattle. I was filled with revulsion and fear. But to save my life, I didn’t show it.