POETRY WAKE UP By: Inyang D. Akpan, Aiyedere/Ajibola High School, Girls Open your eyes This concerns you All of you How blind you are That you cannot see Your foolishness To be a girl is nothing Nothing, but trouble Trouble! Their ...
Life’s Challenges by Idongesit Young (Male, 17 years old) When you have doubts about yourself, About your worth, your values; When you failed at life and the world weighs you down, So you fall deeper in a hole, When you ...
Inhalation to Death by Mervis Emelife (18 years old-Lagos) People say I was well brought up That my parents showed me a good path to tread Up until my teenage years, obedience was my second name And people were glad ...
GIVE US A CHANCE by Mary Ukpa (15 years old) Young but shy, Like a bird with potentials but can’t fly One day, I say always I will speak, Without being shunned I feel unwanted and discouraged, Thus putting me ...
Time waits for Nobody by Peculiar Ediomo-Abasi (20 years old) “Tick! Tick! Says the clock, do quick What you have to do, do quick” So mama said as I grew Then I worked as time flew “A stitch in time ...
A Tribute To Woman by Tope Ogunlade If only mouth can tell Or eyes can disseminate the tidings And if only expressions can carry out The in-built tribute that belongs That specially made machine Highly sophisticated and complicated in nature ...
DELINQUENCY by, Gilbert O. Egule The International Federation of Women Lawyers We read in the papers, we hear on the air Of killings and stealing and crime everywhere We sigh and we say, as we notice the trend “This young ...
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT Adapted from “Teaching True Abstinence Sex Education” by Pat Socia Keep those zippers zipped up tight And those buttons buttoned just right Clothes and “NO” are the protection, you see So you can be free, yeah-you ...
What Kind of Friends Do You Have? by Ogbejiele Peter. Ex-student, National College Gbagada What kind of friends do you have? Friends who disobey their parents? Or are stubborn and arrogant? What kind of friends do you have? Do you ...
Rage of a Rape Victim Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten Every 5 minutes a woman is raped Every 10 minutes a little girl is molested Yet I made the subway today I sat next to an old man ...
