I was overjoyed at the fact that I was not denied a visa, due to the circumstances that I had overstayed my welcome after college; God was surely on my side. I was sharing my testimony with friends, and we were all happy that I was going to return to life as we knew it...

Before settling for school in Louisiana, I wanted to school in the U.K, but all the schools I applied to rejected me. So I turned my focus to the U.S and Canada and got admitted to two schools each in both countries. My dad then advised me to go with Lafayette, because...

“Fisayo” as I fondly called him, “why is Lola sending me all these messages? What do they mean?” He replied—remember when we broke up? Yea I do, for like 2 seconds. Yea that time, I was so mad at you that I went out to the club with Lola and her friends. I told her abo...

I wonder why some guys are so inconsistent; it drives me nuts!! One of my friends told me one time when I was whining to her about a guy who was very inconsistent; this was many years ago, by the way, she laughed and said to me, that the guy was consistent in his incon...

Gina honked at the gate of her house for the third time. Maybe Tinuke was asleep. The gate came open but it was her husband behind it. She felt a sense of foreboding; her maternal instincts were kicking in. It struck her that she had not felt quite like a mother in a v...

Nurse Gina lay on her bed thinking of what to do about the girl that lay in the room next to hers. It had been one week since she brought her home and she was still as clueless as the first night, when she had wondered what she had gotten herself into. She knew it was...

Two weeks had gone by after the episode with the pregnant teenager, and yet Nurse Regina felt uneasy. Thoughts of the girl burdened her mind for days. What was she doing? What was her mother doing about the pregnancy? Who was the father? How did she even get into this...

Sitting on the two sides of the desk were two people of different orientations, but one issue brought them together. The nurse stared at the file before her like she wanted to be somewhere else other than where she sat, while the confused but yet agitated mother sat be...

Eva sat watching the buzz around her. Everyone seemed to have something going on except for her. What was on with her though was the feeling of being out of place. It was now clear to her, in all the chaos, she absolutely did not belong there. And while that realizatio...