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Philip Ebuluofor

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Self Manipulation

Philip Ebuluofor

They sat in that same rectangular table they had sat on six months ago while hatching the plot. Mr. Minister of education Adewale Osinba, The head of West African Examination Council in Nigeria(WAEC) Mrs. Nkala, and her Nigerian deputy Mr. Mohamed Isiaku. They think that even though secret that more than two are aware of is no longer secret, their composition, mission, and what is there for all assured them of its secrecy. For the seventh year running now, the best secondary school Western Examination council (WAEC) results have all come fro...

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Mrs. Mighty Joe

Philip Ebuluofor

                Saint John's Parish                  Kpor                  Alhambra Sate                  Nigeria                  19t...

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On The Regulation Line

Philip Ebuluofor

“I thought I kept it in the drawer here but it isn't here” “ try checking in the books, maybe you put it inside one of them” “I have gone through the books there and it isn't there” “search your personal compartment or check your cell locker”  Kenny the inmates librarian( if you call him that) talking to his friend kurusiano in the foreign district library of Qinso prison. The list of excess books that has no space to store them in the library he came out with the idea of sending them up to the district first floor instead of how he s...

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Decision Virus

Philip Ebuluofor

It’s that time of the year the final years students turns from kids to adults. Last ceremony till results comes to determine most of their fates. If government, parents and students knew how that final year result determines the fate of their wards and students even their communities, they would have done everything to see it’s success. He sat behind the thick Mahogany table, the staffs by his right and students by his left. They are they staffs and students of Ife Community secondary school. Cloudy Tuesday morning and they all were on more ...

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Professor On Run

Philip Ebuluofor

She sat observing him for any sign of what he had told her he suffers from and the main reason he came calling that late rainy evening without seeing any. He said he suffers from narcolepsy, narcotic-tipsy, or some word that sounds that way. No sign of weary tired eyes, no blinking eyes. He dressed like a gentle man which helps in settling nerves but his words are yet to manifest to validate his attire. So, the woman Sarah had remained alert.  When they are in good health like that and dress the way he did, in a city and tribe 90 percen...

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Pay Back Time

Philip Ebuluofor

They gathered in the room there with anger written all over their faces that drips venom just like their words. The leaders of about three tribes. They couldn’t understand why a tribe that is the tinniest of unions that made up that entity should be the one objecting to their agreements. This is the third time they are meeting in secret, knowing fully well that their meetings are illegal and that what brought them together is, an illegal objective too. “We have gathered again as before and we must not vacate this room without reaching a ...

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When The Crew Comes To Town

Philip Ebuluofor

Cut! Cut !! Cut!!! I couldn’t help it this time around. This is the third time in under three minutes he was shouting that. What was so funny to me and annoying to the actors and actresses was the manner he shouts it with that plastic toothpick in his mouth. Cut, cut, cut. I was wondering if that is how all these plays and movies we watch are being recorded or if this albino is just the son of a bitch.     The director Mr. Thunder as they nicked him was shouting to Charles an albino like him and that had been the third ...

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Running After Who Is Running After Something

Philip Ebuluofor

He lives three houses away from ours. He might be in his late twenties or early thirties, am not sure of his age. Funny fellow of human. He doesn’t quiet have that height they call average and not the type that you might call eye catching, heading turning and that must have been reason he is into type of career he is in. Ex-officio they call him. His work is to observe and report and from look of things, he had been at the informant job for long without many paying attention to him then few years ago, a man returned from abroad, wha...

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Village sagacity

Philip Ebuluofor

Chuku, that’s what they call him. Probably meaning Chukwu, (God) in full. These days, many parents are resorting to names like that for reasons best known to them. Maybe, seeking good luck and fortune in everything. He is eight and in class three. How he made it that far considering where he is coming from, I have not heard that part well.  The alcoholic father had died when he was five from drinking excess cheap local brewed gins. They found him under a guava tree clutching a bottle of the brew with what will pass as a smile on his...

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Determination At The Root Of It All

Philip Ebuluofor

They are known by what they achieved and way it was achieved. By nature, or act of gods, people from this tribe don’t really know that government exist. No. not that they don’t know, they do know after all they take part in election campaigns where some receive popcorns and sachet waters and shits like that to cast their votes on the Election Day for popcorn slingers. What they don’t know, rather don't care to know is the functions of the popcorn throwing government or duty of the government to the masses, so, they do what they will do for t...

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Hidden Secret From The West

Philip Ebuluofor

A plump of a man. He stood about 5,3 and his weight is hovering around obesity and diabetes. Father Mark, they call him. His stomach seems to be ballooning each day as if it is rioting seeking an escape.     He came back from Eastern Europe some say Norway, some Iceland, or somewhere in that region. He came to our parish and introduced new things no one here ever associates with the catholic priest or even Christianity and many were his mouthpiece rendering unrequested excuses for his smoking habits. Worshipers h...

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Ladder List

Philip Ebuluofor

It all started in college days. If I recall well, third year in college. That was when I first saw two of them often. For the next two years, it was the same story of attachment. The ultimate test of friendship is always after education if school is where both of you met. When one is just being schooled by parents or whoever is doing that in loco, it’s seen as quasi serious place and quasi enjoyment environment. In fact, over here in Nigeria, primary school is what it is to us. Forced and the time we enter secondary school, it’s the senior...

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Doff Your Hat Wherever You See Second Timers

Philip Ebuluofor

He pulled with all his strength and achieved almost no result. He went on all four to see what is exerting this strength. The coarseness told him that whatever it's isn't a new occupant of the under bench. He was right. The color and quantity pointed that fact out well. The person or whoever they might be seems to be on the religious duty of packing half-chewed guns under the same chair each week for reasons known to them. In this kind of discovery, you don’t open your mouth wide for it is a sign of not doing the work previously well. Th...

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The Same Central Apple

Philip Ebuluofor

Mr. Charlie B as he was known by the village kids is sixty-one. His mother was eighty-five. The story surrounding that man is high and deep at the same time. Too many versions even though they retain that greater element of central sameness that give It validity. The central message in it was that the man with a son behaving like a sorry version of him was once a near priest. Nearly? The story about the guy goes this way. He was raised by his now eighty-five years old mother alongside two other elder sisters. His father died when he was ...

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Caught Up In Few Minutes

Philip Ebuluofor

“You need to hear the sound of the speaker am telling you about. It booms to high heavens. Boom! Boom!! Boom!!! Like thunder rumbling” Emeka in his demonstrative way is telling us in the class one morning about new music speaker his uncle bought and how it transformed their neighborhood. He had missed class for three days in a row and when he showed up, it was apparent from what occupied his day while he was absent from class that long. No one pointed that out but it was clear. He was listening to music in his uncle’s new speaker. &nb...

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