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My Loquacious Roommate episode 2

1 year ago

#MY_LOQUACIOUS_ROOM_MATE EPISODE 2 These girls no get joy ooooo 🙆. I was just wide eyed and mouth looking at them as they were swearing at me. They pushed me out and locked the door as they wiggled their waist with my food stuffs in hand.🙆 I brought out my keys and opened the door. Unwashed

My Loquacious Roommate

1 year ago

#MY_LOQUACIOUS_ROOM_MATE Back in my undergraduate days. I had a loquacious room mate. I did late registration for some unforseen circumstances and so accomodations were hard to come by. I sought a way to find a place where I can keep my things and lay my head. I laboured from morning till night and had to

The Firstborn They Forgot Was Human – A True Nigerian Story

1 year ago

I was barely eleven years old when I learned what it meant to be a firstborn in a Nigerian home. My mother, a teacher, had just delivered her fourth child—my youngest brother, Tochukwu—when I overheard my father say to our neighbor, “Chisom will have to grow up fast now. She’s our second mummy.” At eleven.

Grim episode 11

1 year ago

#Grim Concluding part!!! © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo Words failed me… I was left to choose between the devil and the deep sea… telling him the truth by agreeing or refuse it by denying it ever happened. And another problem is that I can’t place which is the devil or deep sea between the two options

Grim episode 10

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Ten © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo SAVE ME PLEASE… SAVE ME FROM TADE….. I looked at the sender to confirm my worst fear, it was from Abisade mi At this point, I didn’t even remember how she had asked me to leave her, her marriage alone. Well, I kind of did, but does it

Grim episode 9

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Nine © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo I read Lekan’s threat, over and over and my blood boiled vigorously that I almost ran mad with rage. I needed something, anything or even someone to unleash my fury on, and Bisade is the only one available. DAMN IT! I needed to release me from the grip

Grim episode 8

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Eight © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo “Guess who’s here? Her mom asked with a smile on returning to the ward, in less than an hour. Bisade opened her eyes immediately and her face lightened up with a smile. I traced her gaze to the door post only to behold my worst nightmare, Olamilekan… “YOU

Grim episode 7

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Seven © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo I watched my heart jumped out of my body as the officer signalled that I do as she bade. The distance between us was like that of Mercury to Neptune. Every step I took made me view my end, graphically and crystal clear. My heart watched from corner

Grim episode 6

1 year ago

#Grim Episode six © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo How’s your head feeling? Hope the headache had subsided or should I go get the doctor?” He continued and added inaudibly “CRAZY WIFEY” Why is Tade doing this to me? Why is he calling me crazy? What have I done to him to deserve this? What has gotten

Grim episode 5

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Five © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo Is Tade not the dragon chased out of heaven? Or must he be with horns before anyone of you would be able to identify him as the devil himself? Before I dropped off…I thought of how I didn’t deserve this not even at the later part of my

Grim episode 4

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Four © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo Would it not be for my advantage if she becomes truly mad? As in, living with a crazy wife would be less detrimental to my person than being a convict….or what do you think? * * * I found myself trying to let my voice be heard among

Grim episode 3

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Three © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo Before I could say Jack, for the very first time in my life, I received a terrible slap that sent out all signals off my head from the man I vowed to spend the rest of my life with. He didn’t even give me the chance to regain

Grim episode 2

1 year ago

#Grim Episode Two © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo I stopped for a minute only to behold my husband’s motionless body resting on the wall. “Jesus!” I mumbled with my hands covering my mouth. I rushed to him shaking him in a bid to resuscitate him. ” Tade please stand up, please” I cried silently. Many thoughts

Grim

1 year ago

#Grim Episode One © Omotayo Olukemi Aiyemo Staring at my wife as she laid innocently beside me, one part of me considered myself lucky…but the other part, I still can’t define. She’s so admirably peaceful in sleep, I find it so damn difficult to resist the urge of planting a soft kiss on her forehead,

From Nysc To Nowhere: Life After Youth Service 6

1 year ago

I still sit by the gate sometimes, fixing phones, but things aren’t the same anymore. The hustle is harder, the roads rougher, but my spirit? It’s stronger. The Hard Truth Life after NYSC is no fairy tale. No magical job offers. No overnight riches. Just struggle. Waiting. And fighting every single day to be

From Nysc To Nowhere: Life After Youth Service 5

1 year ago

It was just another Monday. I was seated outside my parents’ house, under the faded umbrella by the gate, battling with the backlight of a customer’s Infinix screen. My little plastic table had burn marks from my soldering iron, That was my routine — fixing phones right in front of the house, gritting my teeth

From Nysc To Nowhere: Life After Youth Service 4

1 year ago

One thing about Lagos? It can humble you today and uplift you tomorrow—with the same energy. After getting robbed, I had restarted my phone repair hustle with pure survival mode. I wasn’t smiling, I wasn’t playing. Every ₦500 mattered. I was chasing referrals like they were oxygen. I thought I had seen all kinds of

From Nysc To Nowhere: Life After Youth Service 3

1 year ago

The Day I Got Robbed at Gunpoint… And Still Fixed a Phone That Same Evening If there’s one thing NYSC didn’t prepare me for, it was the unpredictable madness of real life after service. Just when I thought things were picking up—my phone repair hustle growing slowly, referrals coming in, even a few people calling

From Nysc To Nowhere: Life After Youth Service 2

1 year ago

The Day My Destiny Came in a Spoilt Phone I’ll be honest—when NYSC ended, I didn’t think the small repair skill I picked up back in 300 level would ever matter. Back then, it was just a side hustle. I’d fix classmates’ phones—mostly changing screens, flashing phones, or resetting passwords. It helped me buy data and

From Nysc To Nowhere: Life After Youth Service

1 year ago

EPISODE 1: The Passing Out Parade Was Just the Beginning I remember that day so clearly. Standing under the hot sun in my starched white-and-khaki NYSC uniform, smiling for pictures, hugging friends I’d come to see as family. Our Passing Out Parade (POP) was filled with energy, promise, and hope. People around me were already

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