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TWO GRACES – GRACE OCHIGBO SEVENTEEN         She wouldn’t have accepted in her wildest imagination that a place like this existed in Ife. Few months ago, she could bet with her next salary that she’d scouted the nooks and cranny of this city – since undergraduate days through housejob and …

Sometimes, on your journey through life, you'll hit heavy traffic. Then you can decide one of two things - wait or give up!

NOMA’S DREAM – Grace Ochigbo ONE One of the 4 inches’ heels, particularly the one on her left foot, slips off course. She’d stepped on a deep sandy surface, making her left leg hit a little stone right in front of her. The stone is little, but big enough to …

This thing called  LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE TWENTY-ONE Anone stared helplessly as his phone rang out for the third time. He glanced in the direction where Victor was standing high over him while he yet lay with his back against the floor. “So what were you saying the last …

  This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO Episode Eighteen His pot-belly dragged for space with the table in front of him every time he attempts to shift position. He dropped the glass of wine he was sipping from for the umpteenth time since his last phrase. Such sluggishness from …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE SIXTEEN.   “So you are saying there is nothing you can do?” Elder Achem cleared his throat. He’s getting this same question for the umpteenth time since the clergy man summoned him here. He’d tried to explain that the activities of the …

This thing called LOVE – GRACE OCHIGBO EPISODE TWO Ajifa Ikani walked in slowly and tiredly into where’s supposed to be her to-be in-laws’ home. Caleb’s mother closed the door behind them, and led her to a seat. “Such an honour to have you, my sister.” Ajifa looked dispirited and …

PROLOGUE Her brown, wrinkly skin looks like discared, wrinkled, paper bag left to itself. Her eyes, over the years, has grown dull and cloudy as though she has seen too much suffering. Her back is stooped over as if she carried invisible weights upon them. Her silver hair is thinning, …

NIMI PETERS – Grace Ochigbo   Happy New year, Lovelies! Thanks for all the support in 2017. Let’s do it again and even greater this year, starting with my next story, This thing called LOVE. Make sure all your friends are following it, commenting and sharing. Let’s spread our enjoyment, …

NIMI PETERS – Grace Ochigbo EPISODE TWENTY Housekeepers, she recognised very well as chief’s, continually pushed in trolleys upon trolleys upon trolleys filled completely to the brim. Fiyin rushed out as the voices and noise from outside her room seemed to have heightened her curiosity. She walked briskly amidst the …