Dear April, Your visit is one I always look forward to because you never visit alone, memories always accompany you. When I wrote to your brother March, I mentioned how keen I was on seeing you and during his days here with me, we spent time talking about you. I can’t believe you are here…
Hello everyone. So I know it's been ages (I owe you all a thousand apologies.) You might be wondering why I haven't been here for a while, right? Trust me, I want to blame it on something: busy academic schedule, insufficient spare time or even writers block. But in all honesty, none of these are…
There are moments that paints smiles on our faces when our minds travels back on a journey to them. These are happy moments seasoned with laughter, dancing hearts and beaming smiles. I'll tell you a little story. A week ago, my friends and I had our valentine sharing. Valentine sharing is the exchange of gifts…
Hey hey everyone. It's almost that time of the year again, right? Tomorrow, to be precise— Valentine's day. Did I just hear you respond 'where's your boyfriend? ' These past few weeks, this 'valentine is coming' song has been trending all over social media. I , myself, have found it quite hilarious and catchy! We…
Uche, I love you, you know this. Nothing has changed, not in my heart. Ever since I said I do, the feelings I have for you have only multiplied. Perhaps this is why it hurts this much? Because there is so much I feel for you, it threatens to explode out of me— burst out…
The light will return again. Some people reading this right now are having stormy days. Their weeks seem like a dark and directionless journey because things are not going the ways they hoped it would. The questions of what ifs, whens and whys storm their brains and they wonder if things will ever be good…
I'm sure you've heard a lot about procrastination already. Everybody talks about it, "Do not procrastinate, it's dangerous." But how many of those who say this actually listen to themselves? Two weeks ago, I fell ill. It wasn't a critical situation but it was a situation that prohibited me from carrying out my normal daily…
The war would come to an end, soon. Those were the words that rung in Anulika’s ears. And on the morning, when her husband Dike left what was left of what they once called home for the cause of the war and never returned, she repeated the same words to her sons. “The war would…
Hey hey! Merry Christmas everyone. ( I know I'm a day late but oh well... ) I trust you had a beautiful Christmas yesterday. And I'm pretty sure you had a good time unwrapping your Christmas presents! I hope you remember that the greatest present of the day came wrapped in the skin of a…
Without doubts, it's been one heck of a year, starting from the Corona virus pandemic that gripped us with fear. For my Nigerian brothers and sisters in the Federal Universities, our issues escalated to the ASUU strike which have kept us away from school for months. And then, the END SARS protest that came up…
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