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"Do you know why that house is always empty and no one ever wants to move into the house and live in it for long like the rest of us have been living in our houses for months and even years?"

When they talk about insecurity in my country, many people take it for granted, and I used to be one of them. When people talk about their experiences with insecurity, I don't take it seriously, probably

After quitting my teaching job, I needed another job to help me stay busy as well as keep the income coming in. I searched for corporate jobs until I got tired of searching and decided to start looking

Murphy's dad works with the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA); like the name implies, they are the ones in charge of keeping the entire state clean. Every morning, even before the neighborhood

“A rolling stone gathers no moss” is one phrase I have heard quite a lot of times growing up, but I never really read meaning into it until things started playing out in my life, going from one stage to

Growing up in the northern part of my country, where the harmattan breeze from the Sahara Desert is experienced more and more harshly, we were made to believe that it is one of the leading causes of fire

My elder sister used to be my worst enemy. Growing up we were more than just enemies; she was a cat and I a rat. We don't go in a sane way at all. We are never in agreement, and we argue about the smallest

Sometimes employers are looking for employees that will work with them for a very long time and not leave their side for any reason, as that helps keep their business moving. One thing that helps companies

One thing about us as humans is the fact that we are always chasing a change; we always want better. We want to leave the tight spot we are in for a spot where we are more free and have a better allowance

Over the years one thing we have all learnt to do as humans is build a wall around our emotions, probably because they have been taken for granted before or we have seen that of people around us taken

One way to know if an apology is deep or not is the actions that follow the apology; the fact that one apologised means they are remorseful of their actions and have come to the realisation that they were

Planning doesn't guarantee success. Over the years, I have come to realise that life favouring you and things going as planned have nothing to do with how carefully you have them planned out; life favours

We all looked forward to traveling to our hometown for the Christmas holiday; it was the talk of the season. Everyone had their plans and could not stop talking about them. Some had other relatives they

Sometimes I feel like realisation only comes the morning after we must have made a terrible mistake; it waits until we have both feet inside and deep into the mess, and then we realise how we should have

image Standing in front of the picture of her dad, Alisha was holding an empty plate. She murmured with wet eyes,” Dad, you are seeing now, your princess will sleep another night without a meal. Mummy

image “Anything else?” Rose asked after hugging Jack to which he nodded in nary because ostensibly he had a smile on his face but deep down he was broken. “Ok bye, then” Rose turned towards the chariot

image “Either we will be dead while attempting to get a better life for our generations or we will return as triumphed. Either they will exterminate us with their brutal use of force, or they will face

image Sitting on the crescendo of a hill, Alamgir was looking at the never-ending vastness of the sea. The ship was fading away from his eyes gradually and along with that, his dream was also looking to