LIBERTY 3.0: A Young Writers’ Workshop
The Love Eternity Foundation, an NGO based in Lagos with the objective of creating positive mind-shifts by running programmes for youth, will be hosting the third edition of her writers’ workshop on Saturday, 18th May 2019. Liberty Do words stand a chance against state machinery? Can poems, short stories and film actually make a difference in our Nigerian […]
Chukwumerije Dike at the 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit
Every year, people across the economic industry and the nation come together to share ideas and give an in-depth analysis of all the major economic interactions both across the globe and the local domains. They discuss the impact these interactions have on the different segments of our nation’s economy. Since the first Nigerian Economic summit […]
Poem: The Whittled
Nothing there was, wasn’t whittled Whether a skill or an ideal or life’s simple things Win or lose, you whittled that Sink or swim, you whittled that too Even God whittled man from the dust of the ground Then, whittled woman from the flesh He’d bound The whittler, not the talker, wins respect For only […]
Poem: Ode to my Better Half
There goes my friend, Who winds round my heart like a thread. With smiles so beautiful to rule, Bounding both hearts without glue. Though I own no clock to prowl, Nor a cock to crow, The whispers of thy breath, serves a wake up call. But in thy absence, the day shines so dull. If […]
Poem: An Ode to Time
Time…Time…Time What a privilege to note your existence, Your performance is never unequal. One time, you seem like a ‘slow and steady’ wins the race Another time, it’s like you build up enormous speed like a jet in the runway…O Precious time, Why art thou insatiable, No matter how big or small thy size is, […]
Poem: The Broken Nigerian Dream
I sang the national anthem and recited the pledge with great passion as a child. I believed the words of these writs, so I stayed away from deviance and developed strong dedication for my studies. I believed in Nigeria as a child. I read the histories of our heroes past, bore the fascination in my […]
Poem: Living For You
Live your life how you may It is your life after all Wake up to make the hay And the sun shines for all Do it or not, it is what it is You run the race to make all glad But the more you do, all seem mad But how long shall you […]
#SundaySpecial: Fathers Are Wonderful People (Poem)
Fathers are Wonderful People Fathers are wonderful people Too little understood, And we do not sing their praises As often as we should… For, somehow, Father seems to be The man who pays the bills, While Mother binds up little hurts And nurses all our ills… And Father struggles daily To live up to “HIS […]
Poem: You Are a Man
Mine is with pen, paper and paintMy father’s was cement, shovels, knives and paintNot but a thousand miles close to the treeI am the black apple so loose it seeks to be freeYou are now a man! Or so not? Take a wife or manyBe as a cheetah, quick to put a child in her […]
Fun Fridays: A Tribute to Good Friends
It is Friday and many of us are anticipating spending our two days of rest with loved ones and good friends. Spending time with friends is one of the highlights of life, as good friends are the people that we share significant moments of our lives with. Whether it’s laughing at funny events that happen […]
A Trip to Vengeful Bliss – In Loving Memory of Kofi Awoonor
A noonday touchdown A drive to Maiduguri On the wings of pyrrhic victory Veiled away –Uhuru She could not have led ‘em Yet again she could From sweet vengeful factories To hell on earth indeed A fiendish blot out Of cold and heat Removed from buried hatchet From grunts and bleats In the blazing desert […]
Poem: To Mother with Love
O’ Sleep my little baby, don’t you cry Exquisite, soothing, her voice a melody from the temples of Heaven The best life has ever known Beautiful she is, a collection of pearls, on a jaded stone Tender like petals of white Roses, her touch Her words, fragrance from an open door With precisions, praises and […]
Poem: Bury Me On Wounded Knee
In the field of Marsada, tears cascade, like dark clouds and rain, slowly I cry, Images of my thoughts fade, wilting like a desert rose, I struggle between the lines of fate and eternity, Like a shadow in the light, lay beside me just a memory, Through pages, scrolls, slate and phases, for freedom I […]
Poem: Blood, Sweat and Sand
By Kobe Eru Godwin The wind blows with dissatisfaction Tears break the silence of the waters My heart a graveyard Where lost souls are found Eulogies are the scriptures on my palm Skin etched, engraved with words they never said Can death ever be called beautiful? Preacher Man, where is God when it hurts? […]
Poem: The Fatality of Complacency
By Nehi Igbinijesu The stack-a-too gagged everywhere Blaring rifles ending our quiet fears A Temple mount blotting of filthy plight Gorging the darkness in gore and fright T’was martial music meandering near My people heard it without a care The day came bloodbath delighted Of courses unknown, wrong and righted Peaceful pleas for wholly despondence […]
Poem: The Monies Prayer
By Ubonabasi Ime Ekpo Money is my servant It will not make me rigid It will lead me to financial freedom As I will not serve it Because it will make me best of the best And it will not lead me into fraudulent means For the cash will help me be among the business […]