BamBam shares her heartbreaking experience: 'I was raped by an ex-boyfriend and a spiritual leader'

In the wake of the rape saga between Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of  Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) and singer Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola, Big Brother Naija star, BamBamhas revealed she was raped by an ex-boyfriend and a spiritual leader. Read what she wrote on Twitter...

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Genevieve Nnaji reacts: 'This is the alleged rapist, his name is Biodun Fatoyinbo'

Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji has reacted to the ongoing rape saga between pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA and Bisola Dakolo, the wife of singer, Timi Dakolo. Taking to her Instagram stories to react, the actress called the clergyman an 'alleged rapist.' See her reaction...

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Temporary Duty by Mike Schneider

No. 30 walked into the break room, drew a cup of coffee, sat down across the table from the room’s only other occupant.    “How’s it going 45, where’s the Old Man sending you this week?”    “Manila to cover a tsunami. I’m getting tired of these natural disasters. Too much work, too few troops.”    “Too...

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Fascination by Sharon Frame Gay

Nan and I sit at the kitchen table. Sunlight streams in through the window, etching the lines on her face. She pours coffee, cradles the cup in her hands and weeps.    “He’s leaving me.” Nan tells me.    “Oh God, no,” I say. “What the hell?”    Nan reaches for a doughnut, takes a bite, slides...

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Seven by Shamar English

    I look deep into the mirror and see someone who looks exactly like me looking back at me. I don’t recognize that person. This person is a vessel for lust, so he subsides it with a plethora of masturbation, and pornography. It makes him feel filthier than dirty laundry.    This person is envious. He roots for the failure...

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The Drugs Were Too Good by Tom Ball

I told them to get off the drugs but 99.99@ were on them. There were no hospitals to help them get off the drugs, so I set up a rehab center but few managed to kick the drugs.    We called the drugs “lotus” and most people just lay around all day enjoying the drugs.    I tried to tell them that, “Life was not...

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My Kind Of Town by Doug Hawley

    A tall bearded man in a suit sighted the mayor of the small town, and greeted the man who could pass as his twin, except for his casual dress.      “Mayor Bachman, so nice to see you. Great weather.”     “And it is good to see you, sir.”     “Since I’m thinking...

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Killing the Clever by Tom Ball

I said to her that people as clever as me were being eliminated by the ruling tyrants. They were doing irreparable damage to the human brain trust. I was in hiding, I told her, and most of my friends had disappeared. I told her, “I didn’t want to toe the line.” And they had put us all on tranquilizers, so we went along with our Leader’s dictates....

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Good Writer, Bad Writer, A.D. 2151 by Tom Ball

I had been told I was clever and that, “I had thrown it all away.” I just got drunk and chased women. I was sure I had a lot of good conversations, but I couldn’t remember them.    I was an identical twin. My twin brother drank in moderation and spent his days writing and had gotten kind of famous.    The next...

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Future Transsexuals by Tom Ball

 I was bored and so decided to change from a man into a woman. It was all fashion.     I told people if you really were open-minded you would try it.    The sex change was effective and gave you a new face which vaguely resembled your original one. And you could change back any time. But only 20@ changed...

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The Secretary and the ABD by Anita G. Gorman

I’m just the Sociology Department secretary, so what do I know? Well, as it turns out, I know a thing or two.    Claude H. Frackenburg was hired two years ago as an ABD. The department chair, Dr. Ernestine Goodenough, had a crush on Claude. At least that’s what I think. Not that I can tell that to anyone. I’m just the secretary....

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Alone by Rhiannon Bird

Lonely winds, busted windowssteady breaths, the only sound Silent steps, flickering eyessound of creaking, standing frozen Another creak, not aloneslowing moving, creeping forward Heart beating, quietly hidinghands shaking, eyes shut tight Heavy steps, two sets of breathscan’t be found, too much at stake Hooded eyes, malicious grinscanning room,...

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A Victim of Democracy by Iftekhar Sayeed

After the 2001 elections, triumphant student leaders of the ruling party picked up 15-year-old Mahima and gang-raped her on February 13, 2002. The rapists also took photographs of the scenes and circulated them in public. On February 19, she committed suicide by taking pesticides. She received such treatment because her father and brother were opposition...

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The Great Escape by David Rodriguez

Bobby didn’t know where he was going, but he knew he was gone. For good this time. He was tired of the toxic environment in his home, if you could even call it a home. His mother was a drug addict, his step father was as well. An endless march of strangers coming in and out of the house daily. Things went missing, he would get blamed, then came the...

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Akwa Ibom/Nigerian Blogger Weds In Los Angeles

The CEO of Akstrending weds his heart-throb in Los Angeles, US...

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Hotel Woman by Corrina-Corinna

“Do we really need two beds?” Jade asked.    The decor of the room was quite dated with its dull paint and kitschy art. The two beds had matching cheap thin polyester comforters. There was a fruity smell from Fernando’s vape.    “It’s what I could get at short notice,” he said. “I hadn’t planned on coming down...

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In Death I Dream of You Yet by Christian Fennell

See me dying, withered and decaying between crisp white sheets. I wait for the prick of the needle—it comes, the warm reprieve taking me again.    I run. Dark and empty city streets. I stop, my heart pounding and resounding in my head, and I watch the thin pools of water gathered upon the road beginning to ripple. I look behind...

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo denies supervising establishment of Ruga Fulani herdsmen settlements

The office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has denied claims it supervises the establishment of cattle Fulani settlements known as “Ruga” in parts of the country. The General Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria MACBAN, Baba Uthman Ngelzarma, had said Osinbajo’s office...

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Glazed Eyes by Cristina Bresser

Watch the bear, watch the bear, mummy!    The naked toddler, body covered with sand, waves back at the cotton candy beach vendor, who is already dehydrated inside a yellow plush costume with a long snout.     The boy’s mother, embarrassed, turns around and pretends she can’t hear his son’s pledges. She tells...

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Businessman, Wale Jana, apologises for attacking Busola Dakolo after she accused COZA pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo of raping her at 17

Wale Jana, the CEO of Sapphire Group and a member of COZA church, has apologised for bashing singer Timi Dakolo and wife, Busola Dakolo, for her explosive interview in which she accused COZA pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo of raping her. Wale after watching the interview, took to Instagram to defend...

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