I was in a bar: it was filled with people at the time I came in, I ordered a bottle of beer which later became 8. I think it was star lager. I woke up to find the bar empty. The empty bottles of beer rattled on the floor as I tried to move my aching legs. “I have picked your clothes from the dry cleaners,” John Dumelo said to me. He was standing in…

I didn’t know how to respond. I was not even sure I was supposed to say anything. “should this woman be telling me something like this?” I muttered to myself. “did you say something?” she asked “no Ma, I was only coughing,” I said. It was Papa who sent me to the boarding school because of Big Aunty’s obsession with redesigning the shape of my head. “Can I come in?” Papa asked, few minutes after…

I was ten years old when the strange noises started. I can’t say if it was the tapping of the rain or the strange voice that woke me up. Pressed against the rough wall beside my bed, clutching Mama’s old wrapper, I listened. “Mmmmmh mmmmhmmh” … it was a woman’s voice. It was indistinct-like someone who was beaten and had a strong hand covering her mouth to prevent her from crying. It could not have…

Fashola! That man has tried o. Even with the three big big positions he was given by the president, he is still working and doing his job very well. See my Aunty that lives in Ota, she told me the other day that they have light 24 hours every day. I didn’t believe it. It was when I went to visit her, that I confirmed it myself. Light everywhere. I thought I was in the…

What do you have against this question? A school of thought believes that the scuffle around this question must have emanated from the hospitals. Doctors ask their sick patient how their health was during the night hours. If you have ever been sick, you would agree that often times, the night hours are when you have the bumpiest rides. It only makes sense for the doctors, who care about the well-being of their patients to…