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Olamide page 2

 OLAMID page 2  Read page 1 Author  Kan Yin Sola Back to the burning rice🍚, I ran🏃 from outside almost falling 🤸down from the bench am lying on and na face-me-i-slap-you I dey live🏠. Omo come see how the passage is long and the kitchen is in the backyard. When I got to the kitchen, I first off the gas cooker and opened the pot cover with my bare hands. I was shocked 😲to my bones, half of the rice have got burned. I placed my two hands on my head🙆ha my mama go kill me today, she will think have been indoors and listening to music with my earphones 🎧as usual, even the shells of the eggs in the rice don burn. I was just shouting chineke 😱 Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus 🙆 pacing up and down. I poured the remaining rice into another pot and quickly went to buy another egg with my savings before my mother and my younger sister 👩‍👦 came back. My mother is a trader and owns her shop, my dad is an electrician and my sister is still in SS2. I had an elder brother named...

First Days On Campus part 1 (the Journey)

 It's in every Nigerian youth's wish to leave his/her parent's house and be free to live an unchecked life. Come on! Parents are seasoned monitors, prosecutors, and guidance specialists, in your parent's house you are under their radar down to your undies. If your mama and papa have never commented on your underwear, friends, keeping late night, opposite sex, hygiene, bad manners, your phone, and studies you're perfect. For those of us who have parents who request you take permission to breathe, admission into the university is a roller coaster ticket to freedom.  I am Christian by name an average Nigerian youth whose greatest wish and prayer were to gain admission. Do you know why? I guess you do. like who doesn't want to be free? I prayed so hard that I bored God with my request for admission. If you have Christian parents like mine you will understand what I mean. So I took my admission so seriously not only for education but for freedom too. When the admissi...