By Jide Badmus Wednesday morning, I needed Noah’s boat to navigate Bank road. I didn’t know Ikoyi too could be this vulnerable when it rains. Some days, we are fishes floating in dry aquariums, enthusiasts, drowning in saltwater ambitions. Other…
By Timi Sanni I arrived at this world already primed for pain—the hurt, persistent, primal, poised. Born on the rubble in the wake of the war,I was no different from that childbirthed in the aftermath of the world’s worst divorce.…
In response to Billy Collins’ ‘The First Night’ By Chisom Okafor I am holding unto the past like a monochrome photographto my chest, listening to your heartbeat against mine in this untouched dark You say something about the pastnot holding water…
By Tope A Larayetan K’ene onye keni ye n’uwais how the weekend calls us in —how the neighbors tell usMommy would show up cradlingbrooms, packers, and mops.Her fingers buried in a plastic bowlof water waiting to wreakdroplets on our exposed…
by tosin gbogi what does the sea bring back to me now what does it wash ashore in its nude song of crossing and what floats on its frothing face, butterflying with the tide . . . the light of…
By Animashaun Ameen R said my deepest flaw is wanting to save everything and, in reply, I let myself break down and asked him to save me. He didn’t. The whole world is on fire so this is the wrong…
By Olatunde Osinaike Getting to know him in the interim, and the gulf of prepositions describing the relative he has been to the two younger than me. Around, against, beyond, concerning, without, notwith- standing: all of the ways we have…
By Ijeoma Osuji The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a pro-self-government group in Nigeria that seeks to restore the Republic of Biafra, which seceded from Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War but later rejoined the country. IPOB was founded…
In a shocking turn of events, Ken Samuel and several others have been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police in Benin City for their alleged roles in the bloody reprisal attacks that took place on 25th July 2005, after his…
Operatives of Daven Oil and Security Enterprises have unraveled the operation of no fewer than nine illegal refinery sites in Bayelsa. The security firm which is one of the Federal Government pipeline security contractors in Niger Delta in collaboration with…
