Why do men cheat? I have asked that question a myriad of times and although I have heard many reasons I still don’t have an answer as to why the male species tend to be unsatisfied with…
Mide’s story still baffles me to date. I mean, how can someone, so full of life, having suffered so much in life and just at the fringe of enjoying after all the years of suffering, die just like that, from…
The Americans are never tired of telling the single story: all Nigerians are scam artists. Some Nigerian officials orchestrate the American story against Nigeria because of primordial concerns. But as you see me so, I am not at all interested…
We were six in number, but we are now reduced to five. My mother’s first born, our brother is gone! Nobody knows how bro Gabriel died. All we know is that he went abroad, the UK, to study engineering. He…
Our people say, the word of a thief’s mother does not contain a grain of truth. It is true that whatever I tell you now may seem like a lie but I can swear by the Bible or Al Qurani,…
I recently watched a documentary titled , ”WHAT ABOUT THE BOY CHILD” produced by Debby Felix and directed by Titi Alpha ( two young ladies) at the IREP film documentary which held in Lagos. The documentary aimed at understanding the…
I came home recently to see my aged parents. I hadn’t been to Nigeria in over 12 years but of course like many of us in the diaspora, we are up-to-date on what’s going on in the country. It’s good…
See, I didn’t want to tell my mother what happened to me. I didn’t even know how I to go and tell her that: ‘Mama, one pastor over there at Mile 2, did something to me and I can’t sit…
The phone call was straight to the point: “I want you at my house this evening.” Odia Ofeimun is of course “he who must be obeyed.” When I got to the poet’s home I was handed an impossible task. Odia,…
I was born an American to Nigerian parents and the reason I am in prison today is ‘cos of trauma. I am serving a 15 year prison term and I will tell you this, I feel safe, I feel secure …
