HeavenOasis

Mum and dad were always fighting. I walked away from our house and began to think about what Kate’s mum said about me. I wish to be a normal kid like Kate. I wish to normal life. I wish to go to school like other kids outside our neighbourhood. I wish to be able to speak fluent and correct English instead of the Pidgin English that I was born and grew up with. Finally, I wish to leave our neighbourhood because I realized that all the residents in our neighbourhood were bad. I cried and blamed God for creating me in the first place in the kind of place where I find myself and to the kind of parents that I have. I said that God must be partial for giving Kate normal parents and giving me bad ones. Before I met Kate, I’ve always decided to be like Axe. He was the  ruggedest  and most  cashy  among hemp dealers in my neighbourhood. Apart from having money, he was also said to be the strongest because he was twice my dad’s size and the tallest man I’ve ever seen. ...

He was patiently telling this driver to be patient. The hero in action! Untired and relentless, he kept working! Free flow traffic.... Well done, good Nigerian. His little efforts were yielding significant results. Today, a hero triggered a memory of what I did last year. Let me quickly gist you before I tell you what this Unknown Hero did. Sometimes in the middle of last year, (one of those days when rain would fall endlessly from morning to evening), I was delayed at work that day because the rain was falling relentlessly. The time was getting to 8PM, yet the rain showed no sign of stopping so I decided to leave all the same, knowing that I would get wet the first thirty seconds of entering the rain but not minding the wetness because I had no choice. Few paces away from the office, I reached the main road and it was a mess. An electric pole had fallen and it lay across the road, preventing vehicles from all sides from moving. In the middle of t...