Everyone in Lagos is quick to tell you one story or another about a bad landlord, a wicked landlord, a shylock of a landlord. Nobody tells the story of terrible tenants. Tenants from the pit of hell. My story is…
My best friend killed himself at 17. Lemme tell you why!
Daniel was my friend. We were friends from nursery school continued halfway through primary school then met again in secondary school. It wasn’t planned, it just happened. The funny thing is, much as we were close, our parents weren’t close.…
In the world according to WurlD, love is contagious-Dami Ajayi
The Nigerian-born musician who lives in America has made a bold statement with his EP and his oeuvre comes across as fully-formed. There is no need to call him an up-and-coming artist. No need to say there are salient aspects…
Yes, I did wrong but my sentence is too harsh, haba
I don’t know what I was thinking. In short, I wasn’t thinking, I was young and foolish. That’s what. I began my journey as a Surulere boy. When I finished school at Stadium High School all I wanted to do…
I won’t forgive our pastor for what he did to me
I got converted to Christianity during one of those campus crusades. I had just turned 19 and was in my second year. I had this firebrand Christian roommate, Ruth, she was the one who dragged me to the crusade where…
Come closer, come nearer, Bob Marley…Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
May is the month memory – of the death of the legendary master, Bob Marley. Yes, Robert Nesta Marley, universally known and adored as Bob Marley, died at 11.40 on Monday morning, May 11, 1981. Born at 2.30am on…
Can you imagine, my wife left me for another woman!
I was once married; married to a beautiful woman. She is an architect and she comes from a well-to-do home. We met in London some twenty- five years back but did not start dating until we ran into each other…
Don’t shut the door completely, that child may want to come back home-Tara Martins Aisida
The story of the prodigal son has been a huge inspiration to me. Let me tell it to you in my own words. It’s about a farmer who lived with his two sons in the rural part of a state.…