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The Men Who Call Our Bluff.
April 14, 2022

I grew up in a calm, what you can almost call a slow city. At that time, most adults who were literate worked for the government. Before the expansion of the big oil companies, factories, and commercial banks, government workers were the ones who ran the city. These government employees comfortably woke up at 8 AM to get ready for work and would often be seen seated in their living rooms before 5 PM, waiting for the…

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May The Remaining Days Be Kind.
March 25, 2022

I have a tidy smile. I should smile more than I currently do. I never thought I could live a day without taking my vitamins until I couldn’t afford them. The war in Ukraine has gone on longer than I expected. I lost an election. The weather has been great; the sun and her beautiful color. My Dad misses me, too. He wants us to talk more frequently than we currently do, but I am…

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The 15 people you meet on Nigeria ClubHouse (contd.)
February 12, 2022

Part 2 No, I haven’t forgotten about this list – and as life kicks my left butt, the gbas gbos on Nigeria clubhouse intensifies. As I write this, a young lady cries in one of the discussion rooms; she says her job is threatened. People are actively calling her office to complain to her bosses with recordings of things she said at the clubhouse. She uses the word ‘blackmail’. ‘I am being blackmailed by y’all low down…

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The 15 people you meet on Nigeria ClubHouse
January 25, 2022

(Part 1) Sleep eludes me. This could be because of the ‘do-looping’ and iterations I tried to do earlier today. I am a bit rusty after so many months of project management and business analysis, which mostly meant that I had to design systems and chase the developers around to write the codes. Well, my eyes are very alert tonight, and what else is there to do rather than think of all the ‘gbas gbos’ that have gone…

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There are very few things more important than hunger.
January 16, 2022

I have always had a weird relationship with food and feeding myself in general. I find hunger soothing, sometimes. Okay, maybe this isn’t as weird as my brain convinced me it is, after all. Perhaps I find hunger soothing because I am a lazy person who wouldn’t be bothered to make proper meals most of the time. Well, whichever it is, my point is, I don’t always look at food or take the task of…

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Once upon a time, there was humanity.
November 26, 2021

“Time makes it possible to pick up and carry on.” I lost count of the number of times I said this, on the morning following the day Dr. Chike Akunyili died. I woke up and read the news. I thought about his children and what seeing their father in such a helpless state would do to them. I wasn’t related to the man, yet, devasted. I could not imagine the load of their grief. I…

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This Is How I Want to Die.
April 17, 2021

What a year it was – 2020, I mean. I think I may have slept through New Year’s Eve, the memories are a bit fuzzy. However, I know that for me, the year 2020 came just like the years before it – with me snoring lightly on my bed. I remember just a month before the new year, how I started a new job after I grew tired of the unhappiness my old job supplied…

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Lekki is a Prostitute
January 20, 2021

There’s a healing that comes from speaking and sharing. I felt it during the EndSars protests; I loved how it felt – like liberation. But somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew how the story ends. I craved justice -however, I knew that was never going to happen in a country ruled by criminals. Africa has been plagued by the worst of humans in its leadership, but I think that from Idi Amin…

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The Leech on your Skin
November 3, 2020

My younger sister came back from Church two days ago and told me about how they prayed for Donald Trump to win a second term in the US elections. She, however, quickly mentioned that she instead took that time to pray for some of her own needs and asked what I would have done if I was in Church. Today is election day in the US, and as I write this, more than 100 million…

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What Happens to People Who Don’t Have Anyone?
July 20, 2020

I would give anything not to see her look at me this way. The way she hugs her end of the car seat, I must stink. When you spend two months in a holding cell – that is with little or no running water, you’d stink too. Is this rock bottom? Because it sure feels like it. What is it I see in her eyes? Is that disdain? My phone rings again, but this time…

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