Masked Comfort

[1 min read]

You're my bed of roses;

Red, the ambassador of danger

Yet I'm beguiled by you

My mind replays you all day

The Sound That Changed Our Lives

 [3 min read]

My sitting partner was a big fan of soliloquy; chanting gibberish under the guise of French verbs while she scribbled invisible words on the table with an inkless pen. It was the ' mass study period', you see- a whole hour dedicated to the ever irksome task of reading- and like most of the other girls in school, I had long given up on the books spread out on my desk. 

The day would have carried on as usual; I would've fallen asleep eventually, only to be awakened by a teacher with a loud slap. The letters and numbers on my math book would've swirled around in my brain until I was dizzy with algebra, and the school bell would have relieved us all with three chimes. 

Nothing could have prepared us for the shrill sound we heard next.

Correct Me Not

[2min Read]

"Are you stupid? How could you throw it away?"

I've seen a lot of people abuse others (usually children) in the name of "correcting" them. I believe this loosely relates to the local common belief that whoever can shout the loudest, or beat the hardest is correct, or is the "winner". And in a society like ours, where age is more important than truth or fairness, there is little that younger people can do to "win" or correct their elders/superiors.

Claustrophobia

 [1min read]

I don't know how people are afraid of closed spaces. 
Perhaps that's what freedom does to you. 
People learn to love their prisons 
If they're left there long enough.

The Change

[4min read]

I met her on my first day and we undeniably clicked, we quickly became best friends. I met the second person a year later and I introduced them to each other. A few weeks later, I started to wonder if I had made a mistake. 

We were three friends, best of friends, inseparable. At least, that was what it seemed like to people and probably my two friends. But to me, I was just a girl struggling to fit in.

The Man Lied

[3min read]

A man lied? Shocking!!!

It is the first day of my new job, my first occupation. It’s also Monday. I’d stayed up late last night carefully picking what I would wear, I had to make a good impression. After I'd ironed my chiffon shirt and my favourite black pencil skirt, it was time to select a shoe.

Football Managers and the Change of Guard

[3 min read]

There's a chance this will be a key rivalry of the new era.

Football, a sport we have come to passionately fall in love with and which is notorious for constantly re-inventing itself has done it again!

While the obvious re-invention has to be the introduction of VAR and its ever-abiding controversies, there’s a particular process the game is currently undergoing, subtle yet pretty obvious that should have our attention.

The Waving of the wand

[1 min read]

Let me tell you a secret,
But tell only worthy souls this.

The Unholy Alliance

[5 min read]

Politics, they say, make strange bedfellows.

This is a tale of a steamy affair between the People’s Republic of China and The Russian Federation. An affair that invokes fear in its purest form and suspicion in its darkest form in the bleeding hearts of other East Asian Nations.

About Magic

[1 min read]

Once upon a time,
There was us.
In the glistening yellow,
In the drowing grey.

There was us.
At the table of the biggest brunches,
And the slowest lunches.

IF YOU HAVE GRANDPARENTS

[1 min read]

If you have grandparents...

There may not be a next time,
Right now may be all you have.
Spend quality time with them,
Lavish love, attention and care on them.
Spend that loose cash on them.

If you have grandparents...

The Shi'a Conundrum

[5min Read]

The Shi'a-Police force clashes are not foreign to residents of the Federal Capital Territory

You probably saw on Monday, July 22^nd, the gut-wrenching newsflash announcing yet another bloody clash between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the Nigerian Police Force.

What made this previously familiar head-on collision particularly different was the delivery of Collateral damage in the deaths of Precious Owolabi, a graduate of performing arts from the University of Ilorin and now member of the Youth Service corps attached to Channels TV and Usman Umar, a Deputy Commissioner of Police.