BN contributor, Michael Afenfia, and author of The Mechanics of Yenagoa and four other books, has a new book coming out soon: Leave My Bones in...
This stay at home order is doing a number on me. Honestly, it got me imagining things on the regular and my already creative mind is...
Were you born at a time your parents were looking for promotion on their jobs and they named you accordingly? Let’s hear it. Were you born...
When I received a text message from a longtime friend asking me to speak with a friend of hers, concerning a book project this friend of...
He wasn’t going to support my dream of going back to school with a letter recommending me to this university I am applying to, because I...
Remember the references to body bags and suggestions as to how to deal with ballot box snatchers? If my children were old enough to vote, honestly,...
Hello, if you are reading this, let me start by introducing myself. I am Tunde Ednut’s phone, and I am only a couple months old. I...
Legend came to us in a box nearly eleven years ago. He was a gift from a family friend in Port Harcourt we all fondly called...
On the first day of the year, amidst all the good wishes and prayers from family, friends and colleagues, I received a message from someone I...
The other day, I walked into my colleagues huddled around a phone. About six of them circled around this particular desk, gawking with so much intensity...
When in my undergraduate days I lost two entire academic sessions to strikes actions embarked upon by our lecturers, I chose to see it as a...
This week, I’ve been involved in preparations for a burial – the burial of my boss’ mum who died of lung cancer even though she did...
This week, I decided to share a personal story, one about my visit to Okaka prison, Yenagoa, in 2015. It was a visit that opened my...
A couple of days back, while on a visit to the hospital with my kids, we had to endure a long wait because of the number...
Imagine being Leah Sharibu’s father or mother and it’s the day after you hear an audio recording of your daughter who has been in captivity since...
My family is away on vacation and I have the whole house to myself. The first three days were magical; I couldn’t believe the quietness and...
Because we live in a country where nothing is impossible, there is no certainty that, come 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari would get the majority votes and...
Nigerians woke up on the morning of Tuesday, August 7 2018 to a rude shock. Our democracy was under attack. Masked men of the Department of...
As an undergraduate studying law in the university back then, I hated attending classes. Now, I didn’t say I hated school or that I hated lectures....
The World Cup is finally over; France has won and the other thirty-one football crazy nations that took part in the competition and didn’t do quite...
Recent Comments