Sam Eno 
December 2017. — The first time I killed a chicken, it got up with the head still attached and ran into the street. I ran in the opposite direction. My sister ran after the dying chicken and my mum went after me. They caught me first. I shook all over as though I had seen … Read more
The older we get, the less we laugh. The less we laugh, the older we get, it seems. Or so it really is. Out of all the adult people I know, the married ones hardly laugh out. Especially men. They find few things funny and on such rare moments when they let themselves laugh, it … Read more
The problem with Lagos isn’t just that there are too many people in such a small place. It is also on account of too many of two other things: Ego and cars. There are so many cars coming into the city. So many cars trying to get around and so many trying to leave. Well, … Read more
It was an experiment. I created a WhatsApp group and added all the scammers I know. I got some of them off the Trucaller app. I named the group, The Scammers Hub. As expected, one of them scammers came to ask, ‘Who added me here?! ‘ I said I did. He asked why. I said, … Read more
Before Mrs. Akingbinle Eunice breezed out of my office she had slipped me a card across the table with her company name on the face and the supposed address where her husband got his cheating on, on the back. I stood in front of the address —No 30, Laurence avenue, Lekki— in the evening with … Read more
The woman said her name is Akingbinle Eunice. Our names in Nigeria can sound so very curious. They often rang up funny images in your head. I like to worry about a client’s name, that in fact, is where I often begin to profile both the client sitting across from me and their husband or … Read more