Crackdown, Shutdown. by Ope Owotumi

The government shutdown in the United States is fresh and ongoing. To many it is intriguing, to others it is confusing and to some others, it is impossibly annoying (I imagine Putin frowns hisses and goes into a minor fit every time the shutdown makes the news afresh) The shutdown is a pain to some, […]

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The Nigeria of my dreams (modified by Michael Okeyode)

My poem, of the same title, was brilliantly re-written by my dear friend, Michael Okeyode, Such that if you read the first letters of every line downwards, apart from the first line, it’d read ‘THE NIGERIA OF MY DREAMS’. I love it! Like the yellow sun at early dawn The beauty of a land newly […]

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A girl’s thoughts- who do i marry by DA MORE.

You know, I’d love to go on. I’d love to damn the consequences, and go for what my heart wants. I’d love to fight for my love, because that’s what people always do. And each time they did, they won. Yes! Those people in the mushy love movies I’ve watched, like, ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’.. […]

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That fateful day by Tobi Elusakin

      In hindsight, I suppose I deserve what’s happened to me this morning but standing there in front of the chemical engineering lecture theatre, grim-faced, the only thing going through my mind was “Man, today has certainly not started well oo. This is the last class for the semester for God’s sake. How did I […]

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