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Run Your Own Race
There’s this lady who sold food in the canteen in my office. She was a cleaner who used to bring food to sell so they gave her one small room to be selling her food. N500 a plate, nothing serious. We used to dash her change of N200 and gather old clothes for her kids. Anyway, like 3 years ago […]
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Make Me Miss Nigeria 2017; Ikpe Igbe Joy
My name is Ikpe Igbe Joy. I am from Apa local government area of Benue. I was born and bred in Makurdi local government area. #IamBenue. I attend Corona Private School, First Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Makurdi. International School and St Joseph’s Secondary School, Nyiman in Makurdi. I am currently a 500 level Law student at the University of […]
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I Started Fighting For The Tiv Nation At 27; Pa Unongo Kwagh Ngise
A few months back while the Herdsmen killings raged, I was consulting with many elders especially when we got to the Senate Public Hearing of the Herdsmen attacks on farmers and realised the herdsmen had a good representation as against the Benue communities who could not even exhaust the five fingers provided by nature, I was desperate to find an […]
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What Exactly Is Lassa Fever
It is a nasty, terrible lethal viral disease which, at its worst is practically almost the same as Ebola virus disease; they are cousins when it comes to bleeding their victims to death. The virus was identified eleven years before Ebola. The incubation period is the same with Ebola – 6 – 21 days. The severe form causes acute high […]
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The Painful Truth About Salary; Salary Is A Waste Of Time
I wish I knew this before now Did you know that salary is the bribe you take to forget your dreams? Salary is like a menstrual circle, it comes once in a month and disappears after 5 days. Did you know that a level-12 worker in the state government civil service earns N60,000 in a month. This means that he […]
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Grand Dad!
Last night I thought of you. Since you have been gone so much has happened. Your values imbibed, you legacy lives on. All those random people you trained in school are nowhere to be found but it’s human nature I guess. Kpen the lady you wanted to take for eye surgery made everyone cry wen she kept touching your casket […]
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‘You And Me’ – Shime Ahua
Verse 1 Why am I fighting all your voices Telling me to run and not be afraid Look at how you’ve always loved me, you’ve loved me You told me you had seen the future, yeah Chorus It had you and me And all those beautiful colours I had no idea That I was running faster than my shadow I […]
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Stop Letting Beer Hunting Historians Tell You How To Live Life
Are you dating? Please hide him or her. Did you get a contract? Keep quiet and execute in the night if possible. Going for thanksgiving? How dare you be thankful, hide it. Getting married? Please and please hide your future spouse from even your relatives until 60 seconds to alter call. Why? Why you ask? Come closer let me whisper […]
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Africa Must Come To Term With ‘Ignorance’
It is an accepted fact that poverty, ignorance and diseases are the bane of Africa continent, but I can attest here that ignorance is the greatest among them all. Most Africans irrespective of their educational, religious and social standings are ignorant of their health needs. Yes, they often use the clause “Health is wealth” without recourse to its true meaning. Hitherto, […]
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Dear Dr. Nyaregh
I haven’t heard from you since the general retrenchment in Benue Cement Company (BCC) where many staff including my father were fired. I am here wondering if you are alive and I really hope you are. Do you remember me? I choose to call you Doctor even though am pretty sure you were a senior nurse when I was admitted […]
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