"Bisola! Bisola!" She won't answer until I call her for the third time. Mama Bisola said. "Bisola!!!!" I screamed again and again. "Maaaaa!" Bisola shouted as if she was awakened

It was exactly 5:40 in the morning when Emeka heard the truck horn outside his window.... fìrst One long sound.. Then two short ones. He knew that sound. It was Mr. Monday... Nobody knew why people called

The old truck arrived just before sunset.. It moved slowly through the dusty road, coughing smoke into the evening air, while children ran behind it shouting and laughing... Everyone in Umuahia knew the

Oh! Caleb. I have just thought about the use of prepositions in writing. We are accustomed to conform to, indifferent to, and many more. Why are you still making these mistakes in the previous assignment

The Academic Staff Union has just declared an indefinite strike action. This was due to the fact that the workers were underpaid and the level of hardship was increasing. They said there was no going back.

Emeka had one plan for that Saturday morning and it was very simple,it was to get out of the house before his mother would wake up and remembered the list of chores that she had mentioned the night before,

When Ada finally left Emeka, she thought the hardest part of her life was over because She had spent almost four years trying to make that relationship work.... four years of arguments that started over

Everyone in Umudara village knew who Chief Okeke was but very few people actually knew him.. to most people, he was simply the old man behind the wall. His compound sat at the edge of the village, surrounded

Government workers in Nigerian institutions have not been paid really well; chaos everywhere. The ASUU chairman decried that there is no going back on the strike action. Students ran helter-skelter, looking

The first time old Mama Nkem sold the black goat, the village laughed. The second time she sold it, people began to whisper... By the third time they called her a thief.. "How can one woman keep selling

Fourteen-year-old Samuel arrived late to school every morning... Not five minutes late. Not ten. Sometimes thirty. Sometimes an hour. His teacher, Mrs. Deborah Okonkwo eventually run out of patience..

A single post changed Deborah's life. Initially it was a good idea. She was an accountant for a logistics company that was expanding in Lagos. The company was known for being honest; Deborah was proud

It's now the year 2047 and the society had finally solved a problem that had troubled humanity for centuries..... Fake apologies. Generation after Generation people had lied through clenched teeth and

At such a pace, I didn't believe that I was doomed to fail. My close friends advised me to make a U-turn in my career. Yes, Bola, my own husband, whose words of advice once looked like callous reprimands

Image from meta ai My admission came late. Two weeks acter resumption. I was really grateful it didn’t come later like most of my friends. I guess God had a way of doing it. He made me come first so i

All Detours are Costly. The fortunate ones find that it pays them back as well. Samuel had one rule. Do NOT cross through Maple street. It took him nearly two hours longer to get home, but he liked the

Some chairs are just for sitting. But this particular chair in my sister's house became my photography studio. Last year, my birthday wasn't going the way I had imagined. My birthday is every 7th of February,

At the end of every funeral the seats are supposed to be empty but Ours did not turn out like that. The chair was older than all the members of the household. The arms of its dark mahogany were so polished

I have heard great rumours from the elders of old that if one is after the chair, he or she must be ready to leave his life for it. I have also heard from my colleagues that if I was really after the chair,

The phone was silent throughout the night, and somehow, it was louder than all their fights. Tunde woke up to the quiet.The first thing he noticed when he woke up, was the silence. He didn't have any