The Cloths of Heaven Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light; I would spread the cloths under your feet:…
Wonders! My father left all his property to his house help
I’ll start my own story with this old saying: “anyone who knows to do good should improve on being good and to him who delights in evil, he should not let anyone stop him from his evil pursuits because the…
I murdered sleep when I invited my girlfriend to sleep over
I am a good Muslim; I observe my five daily prayers, I give alms, I respect people and help as much as I can. I am a normal young Nigerian. At 28, I still live with my older brother because…
Wait, who said it’s a woman’s job to build a home?-Tara Martins Aisida
If there is any biblical verse or passage that I have come to dislike it’s Proverbs 14:1 which states that “the wise woman builds her house but the foolish woman tears it down with her hands” and Proverbs 31 which…
All my brother wanted was Pastor’s blessings, instead Pastor killed him
Chibuike has always been a religious somebody; maybe because he once wanted to go to a seminary. He was the type of person that took church seriously. We, too, the rest of the family, it’s not as if we are…
My brother’s spirit is wandering about; how do I help him rest in peace?
My story will start from when my phone rang one Saturday morning like that. ‘You didn’t tell me your brother is back! I saw him yesterday; he hasn’t changed much. He told me he came briefly to see you guys.…
Madness is not a matter for children-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigerian politics is pure madness. This is the declaration of a strategic source of mine, a grand old man in his eighties who has seen it all in the game of politics in Nigeria. I was in the great man’s…
To men who cheat and the women who love them-Tara Martins Aisida
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…
It wasn’t suicide, it was a mistake that killed our friend
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…
Nigeria’s computer genius Echeruo conquers America-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
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…