AUTHOR: NNAEMEKA IJEOMA Just recently I found myself in household management for the first time in my life. It happened that I now live at home with my father. Mother and my other siblings living away from home because of work, school and national service. And of course the lot fell squarely on me to […]
AUTHOR: IFEANYI OKOYE The world is a place where every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to become rich. When you ask a young man about his future goals and aspiration, the first thing he mentions is money. The quest for money for money and material things has led so many people inot destruction and unending […]
AUTHOR: JACOBS AJAYI Akiola, an 18 year old boy was filled with verve and energy during his primary school days and this led to his ambition of growing to become a computer savvy. In order to achieve his aims in life, he enrolled in an afternoon computer lesson where he was taught the basics of […]
 AUTHOR = ONYENACHIA  MUNACHIM Inspiration is simply the infusing of motive spirit to matter. The matter may be an animal or it may be a man. The spirit on the other hand is the impetus of an admired end. Often, it is one man’s mind that supplies the spirit. The mind of a great man can […]
AUTHOR = IHEOMA NWACHUKWU Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now Uchechi woke up, reached for her phone under the pillow and screamed. The time was ten minutes past seven and her modelling interview was for seven thirty. Normally it took her close to half an hour to bathe but she was in and out in less than five […]
AUTHOR = OTITE OGHENETEGA   Every dream has a price tag attached to it. All you have to do to live the life of your dreams it to pay the price.         This price comes in forms of discouragements, setbacks, disappointment, or even failure on the journey to your destination. The truth remains that we can live the […]
It was some years ago as I am no longer certain when I was faced with two beautiful ladies in Lagos Sheraton Hotel; one was a Briton and the other a Nigerian. The room was 519 and it commanded an air of warmth despite the harsh Air Conditioning finding its way through my St. Michael’s […]
AUTHOR: OSAGIE AIMENOHO Dedicated to those of us whose hearts are breaking Stepping into the 8 ‘O clock Train Nostalgia gradually arrested My Subconscious You never liked the Train Said your Papa ran off in one When you were barely five Couldn’t figure you out, could I? Especially given the circumstances in which we met […]
 AUTHOR = FUNMILAYO AKINOSI   Someone once told me, she’ll bet her eye-teeth if I cried on seeing Titanic. It probably didn’t count for much for her astigmatic-myopic eyes, though I remember she had gum-trouble free teeth. Her gambling habit might have been spurred by a little chat after we saw “Pay It Forwardâ€, a […]
Dear all, The writing competition would be kicking off today with three outstanding write-ups; Humphrey Kelechi – A DAY IN LAGOS – 16th July , 2007 Akpa Ele Ojo Esther – ROMOUR vs. REALITY – 16TH July, 2007 Olusina Akani – YAHOOZEY – 16th July, 2007 The write-ups are beolw this post. You would […]
Ever wondered what this term Yahoo yahoo means? Its an all pervading phrase that now it has become part of our everyday speech. Simply put it means using the Internet as a means of ‘making money’. Not by any legal means however. Youth of nowadays in Naija do not want to work a regular nine […]
I hear what mama says about you, And what the priest says about you each day; Mama says you save, The priest says we are nothing but slaves, I want to know what is true I want to know, I want to get into you. My friend says you’re a chess player Papa says you’re […]
