The Mortehn Expressions

What's up everyone? Did anyone even miss me at all? Yeah, I know it's been a while and truth be told I miss you all. I'm sorry I haven't posted anything in a very long while, I've just been completely swamped with work. I hope you'll enjoy reading this piece from me as much as I enjoyed writing it. This write up is just from my own point of view and you're allowed to either agree or disagree. That's why I called it; Yay or Nay. I just want to discuss the issue of greeting generally and the old age syndrome among people. Before I proceed, I'd like to ask this question: Who should always do the greeting? The boss or the employee? The younger person or the older person? While I was living in Lagos and growing up in Ondo respectively, this question never came up in my mind. This is because anybody can be the first to greet anybody. It doesn't matter if you're the younger person or if you're the older person. It doesn't matter if you&

Her life became shattered when she found out that she was pregnant for Barr. Iwuonye, her Property Law lecturer. The doctor had told her that her womb would be damaged if she aborted the baby and she had decided to keep the pregnancy. She told the Barrister about it and he was furious. Few days later, he invited her to his office and told her that he would be very happy to father a baby by her. He offered her a glass of orange juice which she drank. Unknown to her, he had put some abortion pills in the juice and few minutes after she got to the hostel, she started bleeding. Luckily for her, a roommate’s boyfriend was around and she was rushed to the health centre in his car. The doctors had to remove her womb because it had been severely damaged by the drug. When she recovered and the doctor gave her the bad news, she didn’t cry. She just smiled and said “thank you, doc.” She opened the door and left the ward. Passing through the O.P.D, she smiled and walked out of the health centre.

       Yorubas are the people occupying the South-Western region of Nigeria. They speak a language popularly known as the Yoruba language, this particular language has variants in different Yoruba states, towns and villages but they all still remain a variation of the original Yoruba language except for the people of Akoko, all other languages are understandable by the speakers of the original Yoruba language. However, it is a pity that nowadays, a lot of people now disdain the Yoruba language, most parents don't speak it to their children and most children and youths today don't even understand a word of the language. On the other hand, we have those people who can speak and understand the language perfectly well but form and pretend as if they don't know a word in Yoruba even if they've never stepped out of the country.       I know you're boiling already and wondering who I am to start ranting about the Yoruba language. I am a Yoruba girl who is very proud and

He was stronger than she was and all she could do was scream. Another slap landed on her cheeks. She started crying. “Do you want to wake the neighbours? You must be very stupid,” Tayo said. He succeeded in pulling off her pants even though she tried frantically to stop him. Before she knew what was happening, something hard was poking her in-between her thighs. “Open your legs, stupid girl” Tayo shouted at her but she didn’t move. “Raise your knees,” he ordered again but she made no move. Tears flowed freely from her eyes as he raised her knees and forced himself into her. She couldn’t scream, she felt like fire was burning between her thighs and someone had inserted pepper inside her. He kept moving inside her, jerking roughly until he collapsed on top of her. He got up and went into the room. She didn’t get up. She just laid there crying and scratching herself. He came back in the morning and did it to her again. This time, she didn’t shout, she had resigned herself to fate. I

They both sat down and Romoke scrolled through the phone before telling Tomi to sit down beside her and watch. It was an X-rated video and Tomi cringed inwardly as she watched. She started to feel uneasy and Romoke was giggling. She told Tomi that what they were watching was what the seniors they passed on their way came to the class to do. Tomi’s mouth opened in amazement. All her life, she had never seen or witnessed anything like this though she had always heard about it. Back home before her mother died, they had always watched Mount Zion movies and she only had clean friends. Things were gradually changing for Tomi. Uncle Lanre's children all had phones except for the last child who was barely eight. Tomi's mum had not seen any need for her to have a phone and she never complained. She was a good child who always adhered to whatever her mother felt was right for her. Everything seemed wrong in her uncle’s family. She had caught the oldest son several times at the backy

Tomi was inconsolable even though the neighbours tried their best to console her. Tomi's neighbours collected the number of her mum's relatives from her and informed them of the incident. Since all of them stayed in Lagos, they came to carry her corpse very early the following morning amidst tears and loud wailing. Arrangements for her burial was hurriedly made and she was buried in the evening. Tomi's uncle came to the house with her to get her belongings because she was going to start living with him now that her mother was dead. Their properties were put up for sale; it wasn’t much. It consisted of a 15-inch flatscreen tokunbo television, a DVD player, a two-seater sofa, a rug and a 4 by half mattress which was put on the floor. Tomi knew where her mother kept her money, she had no bank account. It was in one of the things that were going on sale that morning and she was hoping for a chance to take it without her uncle’s knowledge. She was afraid that he might collect

Tomilola sat down in the single room apartment where she lived with her mum. Her father had left when she was five; he just packed up and left with his belongings one day. There had been no quarrels, no exchange of words between her parents but he left them and they never heard from him again. She had just woken up from sleep and was just sitting there wondering where her mum could have gone. It was about 3pm in the afternoon and she was beginning to get hungry. She got up and opened the cupboard where her mum always kept food but there was no food in any of the pots. She went to the container where garri was kept and she was lucky to find that it still contained two handfuls; she put the garri in a cup and added some water. She left it to soak for some minutes so that it would rise. As she was about to start taking the garri, her mum came in. She carried a bunch of plantains and some other foodstuffs in a Bagco sack. Tomi left the garri and went to help her mother to arran