Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode Rain wanted to go out and see the city at night, but Chief Edozie said he didn’t feel up to it. He told her he’d rather stay in, order room service and enjoy a quiet evening with her. He also told her he was tired and that he knew for certain they’d run into someone from home if they ventured out to a bar, restaurant or…
Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode “Hey Pops, sorry I missed your call. It’s been incredibly difficult getting a hold of you these days though. What have you been up to?” It was a Saturday and Shata had spent the morning playing football with the feeder team of Bayelsa United. He met the players when he went to workout at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex because Elder Iniebong told him it was…
Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode “I know I was the one that asked you to hold on, but with the way things are going and how far I have gone with the arrangement of the other things we need for the final ritual, I think we are ready to bring in the last and most important item from the list of requirements I discussed with you in Yenagoa.” “The girl?” “Yes,…
This stay at home order is doing a number on me. Honestly, it got me imagining things on the regular and my already creative mind is on overdrive. As if it didn’t paint enough mental pictures and make-believe scenarios before the lockdown, now the juices flow unabated and I see a story in everything. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, I even imagine the conversation my neighbour’s dogs are having in their house. Let me tell you what happened this…
Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode Rain sat at the back of the church because she was late. She was late because she couldn’t make up her mind whether or not to attend the funeral service of the man that could be her biological father. She was late because she wasn’t sure if somehow, she had a hand in his death when she decided to go on a dirt-gathering expedition against him.…
Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode Ohita let go of her husband’s hand so she could drop her offering and building fund donations into the special basket brought to those of them in the front row. It was the area of the church reserved for the officiating pastor and his wife, dignitaries, immediate family members of the deceased and some Nollywood faces. She pretended not to notice that the pretty female usher…
Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode Chief Edozie gave the eulogy at the funeral. Because of the sombre mood in the church, no one could tell that he wasn’t happy doing it. At some point in his speech he was tempted to walk away from the microphone stand and even away from the crowded hall because it felt hypocritical saying nice things about a man that defrauded his company of millions of…
Start from Season I Episode I Read all previous episodes Read the last episode With the reality of a ruined outfit staring him in the face, Shata Anele had no other option but to go in search of a solution in his unpacked suitcases. He was torn between a navy-blue crested blazer over white long sleeve shirt and a pair of black trousers for the Ivy League look he preferred for work, or the white Swiss-lace kaftan chosen by his…
Read from Season 1, Episode I Read the last episode in Season I Shata Anele couldn’t decide what to wear to the commendation service of the man whose shoes he was stepping into as Chief Financial Officer at Edozie Express. Going by what he had been told, and comments he picked up in meetings and conversations around the office and elsewhere since his arrival in Yenagoa, home to the imposing edifice housing the head office operations of EE, they were…
Start from Episode I Rain waited for David to leave the house before giving in to the tears she had been holding back all day. First, she cried that things with her parents didn’t go as planned. She wished they saw things from her perspective and that her mother’s husband said the words, ‘I’m sorry’ to her and meant it. Then, she cried about Mr. Wakama dying so unexpectedly and in such a cruel manner because in all fairness to…