‘Please, pull that hair gently,’ I cautioned Bimbo, my best friend and hairdresser, ‘you should know better for therein lies…

  ‘Dabira, please open the door!’ Mama Tola’s voice sounded innocently. ‘I’ve bought the daily devotional you requested for.’ ’Devotional?…

  ‘Dabira, remember me when you get to your kingdom,’ a fellow teacher teased me as he strode towards the…

  ‘Hello,’ Chief Mbadiwe’s baritone voice resonated, ‘I’m sorry, for calling you at this time of the day.’‘No problem, sir,’…

  ‘Are you still with me?’ Bro Ralph tapped the table gently to gain my attention. I nodded, like a lizard.…

The next day took another dramatic twist for Bimbo as her first daughter took ill. The distraught mother dropped off her…

  I heaved a sigh of relief the moment I got home. Aside from the emergency nanny I played at…

‘Why are you staring at me like a mannequin?’ uncle Ade smiled  boyishly, ‘come and receive your call jo.’ The…

‘Ada, it is not what you think,’ I repeated with imploring eyes as though I was standing before a judge.…

  I resumed work the next day with that feeling you get when you just had a cool bath after…