Mama Toke tried to talk him into completing the money for her but he refused and turned deaf ears. When she saw that he wouldn’t change his mind, she left the room and shut the […]
Chief Oko: “okay, erm, let me just tidy up this account so that we can go to the guest inn across the main road” he said, flipping through his stock book. Mama Toke thought about […]
Mama Gift was just about chasing mama Toke away when her husband told her to stop. Baba Gift: “you don’t have to stress yourself asking her to leave. When she is tired, she will leave […]
Gift shivered as her father approached her, pointing his index finger at her. She stood still for a while and then took to her heels and ran into the house. Baba Gift: “will you come […]
THE best way to forget a treacherous lover is to replace them with a better option. But this doesn’t happen often. The more attractive you think you are, the easier it is to pull. But […]
Gift went into the kitchen and dished out a bowl full of pounded yam and banga soup with enough meat and fish for her student boyfriend. Francis sat upright when he saw her carrying the […]
After the fight with Gift’s mother most of her customers deserted her and refused to buy wares from her based on what they had heard mama Gift say about her. Tired of sitting in the […]
The next morning after assembly, mama Gift stormed the school premises fuming with anger. “I want to see the principal of this school” she said to the first teacher she met coming out of a […]
The form teacher alerted her other colleagues who came running out from their various classes. They all knew Toke and most of them were very fond of her because she was a very intelligent and […]
Thirteen years old Toke walked with her widowed mother to the community secondary school in their town where Toke had been sent home by her teacher because she had failed to pay her school fees. […]