THE BROOM OF CHANGE

They flew on the wealth of the people.
But  never did love the people.
Like kids they played on their  intelligence.
Ours is a new era of change they said.

CRITICISM AND YOU

“Criticism: the only chance we have got to do something better, make something better, and be someone better.”

Two years ago he was in the same spot, sitting in the same chair, in a different dress. Like then he can’t describe in exact words what it was like sitting in that chair, but he can measure the feeling: the feeling that once swept through his puffy cheeks, through every nooks and crannies of his shilling body completely rendering him mentally confiscated in the tiny space of overwhelming intellectual gasp. Tony’s critiques are back, and they are doing a pretty good job in making him feel bad.

THE NIGERIAN GRADUATES AND THE FUTURE THAT AWAITS THEM

A young writer may very well keep quiet on many things, but never a subject of immense importance such as the Nigerian graduates and the future that awaits them. A writer that closes his heart to this may as well not be considered a writer, after all, if anything is worth a writer sympathy it will be the hope and redemption of his country which, in the case of the Giants of Africa, is being shouldered on his fresh educated young minds: the Nigerian graduates.

TEMPTATION

She came in the light of the night,

Guided by passion and lust.

With eyes buried under the shades of glass,

And steps muted by glistening floors.

WHY YOU FAIL YOUR UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

The university system on a level is quite a different world on its own. Most especially the Federal Universities we have around. A good number of students, undergraduate at different levels sweat in frustration every single time they write an examination. It appears as though most of the times they never did prepare for the examination despite the fact they spent hours at the university library reading, studying, and to borrow the general language, “jacking.”  One thus wonders then what could possibly have gone wrong. What possibly could have been the problem. Was it that they forgot what they read, or was it simply fate? Maybe yes, maybe no, but there are more psychological cum logical reasons to pursue.

THINGS THAT DETERMINE HOW FAR YOU GO IN LIFE

Everyone wants something in life, something out of life. Some want more than a body in a pair of trousers while others want simply that. Some will settle for a bungalow in a local while others will settle for nothing short of a mansion in the heart of the city. Some will even acquire for themselves private jets while some will comfort themselves with fleets of cars. It's preference: everyone wants something, no matter how little or considerably large it may seem.

MISSING CHIILD

Has anyone seen my pearl?

She is bright, promising, young and fair.

I sent her on an errand and she is yet to be back.

She left not so long, has anyone seen her?