Nigerian Voices

December 20, 2016

Gbolabo Amusan: Lagos has a culture- it is hustle [Nigerian Voices]

by Gbolabo Amusan “Don’t Be Stupid, Don’t Be Slow, Don’t allow yourself to be taken for a fool”, words on the plinth of the three Elders (Agba Meta) statue at the entrance to Lagos. Every society has norms, tastes, traditions peculiar to it and hustle is Lagos’ main culture. The attitudes and behavioural characteristics of... Read More

culture, hustle, lagos, nigeria, Nigerian Voices

December 20, 2016

Boluwatife: The present in my past [Nigerian Voices]

by Joshua Boffin As I penned down my signature on the register, it dawned on me that life was really dynamic. Life was funny and if only we knew what fate had in stock for us, we would never make the wrong decisions. My life had no beginning; I only got to find out on... Read More

life, Nigerian Voices, orphan, past, present, stories

December 10, 2016

Otasowie Christabel Ogiemwonyi: When the curtains do not fall [Nigerian Voices]

by Otasowie Christabel Ogiemwonyi **************** Sometimes, you crave for solitude but you find out you are with company. The peripatetic bunch of memories won’t go away. They pay impromptu visits, choking you with emotions till pearly drops flow down your smooth cheeks like molten lava. Isn’t it entertaining that death teaches you a lesson by... Read More

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FAMILY, life, memoirs, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, nysc

December 10, 2016

Eziaghighala Chinaza Ebere: Looking for utopia [Nigerian Voices]

by Eziaghighala Chinaza Ebere Empty streets like a ghost town except for the orange outfits or savage bike riders who break every rule imaginable due to suffering and sadness. The old woman is sweeping. “Good morning ma”, I said as I walk beside her appreciating her workmanship. She looks back and I see in her yellow... Read More

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hardship, lagos, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, Ojuelegba, utopia

December 8, 2016

Ali Toyin Abdul: Diary of a dreamer boy [Nigerian Voices]

by Ali Toyin Abdul My life had been that of awe and grappling confusion. I found myself wobbling in fantasies – of illusion, complacency, and naivety. As a young man, I had been thrown at the crossroads of dilemma, surmounting the bumpy and thorny challenges of life. At age 7, I was growing up into a... Read More

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Ali Toyin Abiodun, examinations, JAMB, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, School tales, Success

December 8, 2016

Jonathan Mairiga: Times and seasons [Nigerian Voices]

by Jonathan Mairiga Most times in life, the picture we get from events and situations are not exactly what they seem to be until we find ourselves in similar a situation, that is when we can truly narrate the big picture. That was exactly my ordeal when I was a fresh graduate. The feeling of being... Read More

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life, Nigerian Voices, Times and seasons, unemployment, YNaija Essay competition

December 8, 2016

YNaija.com’s ‘Nigerian Voices’ competition continues this December | Winner gets N50,000

Following the successful completion of the debut edition of Nigerian Voices in September, YNaija.com, and the follow-up edition in October, the internet newspaper for young Nigerians has launched a new season of the competition to run through December. The first edition attracted over 200 entries from young Nigerians telling their stories in a down to... Read More

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Chinaza Attamah, Essay Competition, Jude Nnamdi, My sexcapades, Nigerian Voices, sticky, ynaija

December 8, 2016

Adeyemi-Bisileko Gboyega: A tale of beginnings…a tale of becoming [Nigerian Voices]

by Adeyemi-Bisileko Gboyega It was in that house that life began, from the moment of conception and swimming in that belly-river and being delivered in Golden Mother Maternity Home, it was the house at 4, Church Street, Lonlo, Iju-Ishaga that I knew life as we all knew it. It was in all respects a very ordinary... Read More

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Adeyemi Bisileko Gboyega, Essay Competition, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, youths

December 4, 2016

Nwachukwu Olusegun Nwachukwu: Choices [Nigerian Voices]

by Nwachukwu Olusegun Nwachukwu Gray day. The sky and the earth had kissed once more, for the sky seemed to miss the earth—and it expressed this as it poured rain incessantly. ‘Chai! Look at this man! Very wicked. Just because he has a jeep,’ Mama Bisi screamed, ‘they are all alike; this is the fourth one... Read More

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choices, Christianity, drug dealing, FAMILY, Nigerian Voices, prayer, Religion

December 4, 2016

Michael Ehinmowo: Possessing possession [Nigerian Voices]

by Michael Ehinmowo There has not been light. I charge my phone at the petrol station close to my house. Apart from charging at the filling station, the manager and I exchange books. Sometimes, we also engage in intellectual discussions. The night before yesterday, he promised to bring me a book which a friend had... Read More

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life, lying, Michael Ehinmowo, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, stealing

December 1, 2016

Bomi Ehimony: Friends are like blindfolds [Nigerian Voices]

by Bomi Ehimony On most days, I haven’t the slightest clue as to who I am. I have ideas, of course, I have a plethora of ideas. But definitively, I am as clueless as the stranger sitting on the culvert by the sidewalk. I grew up in a small capsule of a town called Lokoja.... Read More

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friends, growing older, life, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, School

November 28, 2016

Ikechukwu Yadi: Bola [Nigerian Voices]

by Ikechukwu Yadi I sat in class drawing on an exercise book. Someone sat beside me. “How far your church girl?” “Titi?” “No, Mary Magdalene.” “She came to my house yesterday with some church women.” I cupped from the slip up. “So if I didn’t ask, you wouldn’t…” I didn’t respond. Kay continued, “What happened... Read More

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Bola, First Kiss, intervention, Nigerian Voices, Relationships, romance, School tales, teenagers

November 28, 2016

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto: I saved my marriage [Nigerian Voices]

by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite. She was blithe and permissive, carefree and lax. We had been married for five months through the declarations of our parents and other adults. I was seven years old and she, just six. Her mother... Read More

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children, life, Marriage, memory lane, Nigerian Voices, Playmates

November 27, 2016

Talius Dike: My tale in all its shades [Nigerian Voices]

by Talius Dike When I first came across this contest two weeks ago, I didn’t know what to write; I had no base to lay my anchor, especially because the organizers didn’t specify any niche for this ‘story of my life’ contest. I put my fingers to keypad and the narration flowed, not from my heart... Read More

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hope, Loss, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, overcoming, struggling, suffering, Talius Dike

November 15, 2016

YNaija.com’s ‘Nigerian Voices’ competition winners get prizes in Lagos [PHOTOS]

After a month of collating entries from across Nigeria, the editors of YNaija.com announced the winner for the month-long writing competition ‘Nigerian Voices’: Nnamdi Jude Atupulazi. His winning piece was ‘Tea Mornings’. The first and second runners-up, Frances Ogamba and Stanley Okonkwo, joined winner, Atupulazi at the YNaija office in Lagos to pick up their prizes.... Read More

Featured, Nigerian Voices, The News Blog

Frances Ogamba, Nigerian Voices, Nnamdi Jude Aputulazi, ntel, Stanley Okonkwo, ynaija

November 3, 2016

The woman in the other room

by Olufemi Babalogbon When she is raped, it’s for nudity No judgment for the villain himself She gets pregnant in school, lost sympathy Of people who aren’t holier than her-self Why should a girl be impregnated? She must have invented the semen! Why should a girl be violated? She must have been the one... Read More

Buhari, donald trump, feminism, Nigerian Voices, patriarchy, women

November 2, 2016

Frances Ogamba: The tribute [Nigerian Voices]

by Frances Ogamba Obum, Every day, I wonder what I was doing the very moment you leapt into the waves the second time? Was I looking at the sun’s hot rays that fell everywhere? Was it at that time the couple standing some distance away became oblivious of the rest of us and kissed? What... Read More

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death, life, Love, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, Swimming, Tribute

November 2, 2016

Stanley Chidiebere Okonkwo: No one told us [Nigerian Voices]

by Stanley Chidiebere Okonkwo I had wondered why people cry when someone dies. For some people, it is so natural. Mother’s acrobatics when her mother was let down the grave could make anyone pass her for a professional mourner. She suddenly broke out from her seat and ran towards the mouth of the six-foot grave, barefooted.... Read More

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death, depression, FAMILY, fathers, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, prophecies, Seers, suffering

November 2, 2016

Raheem Oluwafunminiyi: Fleeing terror [Nigerian Voices]

by Raheem Oluwafunminiyi The second half of my stay in Adamawa marked a period of both hope and fear. First, there was nationwide strike early in the year but by the time it ended with both government and the union agreeing to reduce fuel prices from N 140 to N 97, fuel still sold for as... Read More

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adamawa, Bali. EasternersFear, boko haram, Fulani herdsmen, insurgency, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, terrorists

November 2, 2016

Adaobi Ezeodum: The struggles of the not-so-average Nigerian woman [Nigerian Voices]

by Adaobi Ezeodum It was December 26, 2015. My aunt woke me up around 10 am to tell me that there would be a family meeting in the next thirty minutes. Not long after I was handed the worst news of the entire year: I will not be returning to the United States to complete... Read More

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affluence, lagos, Nigerian Voices, patriarchy, poverty, rant, women

November 2, 2016

Ibrahim Oga: Home is still a faraway dream [Nigerian Voices]

by Ibrahim Oga I don’t have a home—not really. When I left for the university, home, where I grew up, where mom, dad and my kid sisters live, ceased to be my home anymore. Whenever I came back it was temporary. A semester or a session break, a weekend, a few weeks or a month,... Read More

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home, hustle, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, Success, youth

November 2, 2016

Ferdinand Mozie: My first kiss [Nigerian Voices]

by Ferdinand Mozie Eighteen years back, when I was twelve, then I was in JSS2 in my school. I used to be a mummy’s boy and people around who noticed it used to call me the name “mummy’s boy”. I hated that name so much and would usually get angry with anyone who called me... Read More

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First Kiss, Love, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, Relationships

October 31, 2016

Nnamdi Jude Atupulazi: Tea Mornings, 1997 [Winner of Nigerian Voices Competition]

by Nnamdi Jude Atupulazi Mummy was a teacher. She lived far away from us because the government would not grant her a transfer so she could be with Daddy and us. She lived with two of my younger siblings, while my immediate younger brother (Tonto) and I lived with Daddy and grandma –whom we called Mma... Read More

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FAMILY, Nigerian Voices, nigerians, Nnamdi Jude, Overcoming adversity, poverty, Winning essay

October 31, 2016

Ayo: Smack dab in the theatre of insurgency [Nigerian Voices]

by Ayo We slid across the rough ground on our elbows and thighs, barely raising our helmet protected heads above the trenches. The dry Harmattan winds coursing through our army fatigues like a goldsmith’s bellows. I winced as I planted my elbow on sharp stone. Sweat dripping from my face blurred my vision transiently. I... Read More

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boko haram, insurgency, nigeria, Nigerian military, Nigerian Voices, north-east

October 31, 2016

Opeoluwa Odunlami: The rejected stone [Nigerian Voices]

by Opeoluwa Odunlami “How good you start is important, how well you end is what is more important.” I did not have a good start in life. Before I was even delivered of my mother, my father rejected me -he denied paternity over me. This does not even seem as awful to me as the... Read More

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Financial difficulties, God, mothers, nigeria, Nigerian Voices, Rejection, Sickle cell A

October 31, 2016

Abraham Isaac Oluwatimilehin: Poetic justice [Nigerian Voices]

by Abraham Isaac Oluwatimilehin *Click* This is me staring at you, wide-eyed, the first time we met. I find this photograph weird for a number of reasons. There’s Doyin, at the beginning of what would blossom into the most important and beautiful friendship in my life till date. There’s Michael. I don’t call him that to... Read More

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boyfriends, Love, Nigerian Voices, Poetic Justice, regrets, Relationships, retribution

October 26, 2016

YNaija.com’s ‘Nigerian Voices’ competition continues this October | Winner gets N50,000!

Following the successful completion of the debut edition of Nigerian Voices in September, YNaija.com, the internet newspaper for young Nigerians has launched a new season of the competition to run through October. The first edition attracted over 200 entries from young Nigerians telling their stories in a down to earth, unencumbered manner – reflecting the... Read More

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competition, essay, media partner, Nigerian Voices, sticky, ynaija

October 26, 2016

Mfon Iquaibom: Jewel in the rubble [Nigerian Voices]

by Mfon Iquaibom Talking about victories, battles, successes and accomplishments, turmoil, confusion, beauty and inspiration and the likes, I would like to tell my story in three parts; childhood, teenage hood and what I will like to call my little adulthood phase my reason is because I’m just two years into it. In life or... Read More

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God, jewel, life, Nigerian Voices, Religion, Success

October 26, 2016

Akerele Oluranti: Begin your long walk to freedom [Nigerian Voices]

by Akerele Oluranti I started out life as a nondescript kid. One who never did home works; hardly knew a thing in school; the carry first from back child, slow and sluggish to the uttermost. My big break came in Primary 5, when I answered a question in class. The previous day, my dad made... Read More

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life, Motivational talks, Nigerian Voices, Power of Books, self-discovery, survival

October 25, 2016

Ekeziem Hamilton: The best lessons are taught in life v[Nigerian Voices]

by Ekeziem Hamilton The lecture room is filled to the brim, but I still manage to secure a standing spot close to the board, or so I thought; because shortly after the lecture begins I have to strain my eyes to see the biochemical pathways the lecturer keeps doodling on the board. After few more... Read More

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hunger, life, Nigerian Voices, School

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