FICTION WEEKLY with Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye: Unlettered Missives [episode 3]
Bolaji, You are a very composed person, but your nerves were awry that day. Fatima was late; she was rarely ever punctual anyway. You did not mind that…
PEN Poetry Pot: GIMLET-EYED BUT SO FLAWED by Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye
GIMLET-EYED BUT SO FLAWED when the pen becomes the sepulchre of the ink, keeping it still like our tongues that stay blunt, in hiding, behind our sharp teeth; we become…
FICTION WEEKLY with Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye: Unlettered Missives [episode 2]
Fatima, … The heavy traffic that occupied your mind eased slowly as the stars began their pilgrimage to heaven beyond, paving way for dawn. You had tired from all the…
FICTION WEEKLY with Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye: Unlettered Missives [episode 1]
Fatima, You stare at the black ink sparsing the letter-headed form before you and nod in disagreement – this should not be happening. No one doubted that you were meant…
A Toothless Suckling Challenging its Mother to Duel with Words: The Dutch Courage of Unelected Students’ Representatives’
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye writes, I remember some quote (not verbatim) I once stumbled upon, “Never go up against intelligent people because it is unhealthy for your ego. Your back will…
UDUS Scholars’ Forum (USF) Breathes her First, Calls for Applications from Eligible Students
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye writes, UDUS Scholars’ Forum, a non-profit, apolitical and non-religious organization, went live on the soil of Usmanu Danfodiyo University campus in the later hours of Friday 5th…
Leaving Sixty in Swaddling Clothes
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye writes, The ‘A fool at forty is a fool forever’ maxim indulges the present, where the unequivocal narrative is ‘A fool at fourteen is one forever’. Whilst…
Insecurity as the Bane of the Nigerian Economy
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye writes, Whenever my father inquires about my welfare, his calls are always concise, and regardless of the absolute briefness of such calls, the old man would…
Mental Health Literacy, and the Nigerian Youths
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye writes, Nothing unsettles Nigerians more than broaching “depression” and the usage of other words which appertain the register of mental health. A plethora of feuds erupt between…
Yet Another Robbery Case on Campus, Victims Narrate Their Ordeal
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye reports, It is depressing that the efforts of the administration to curb insecurity on the campus is going down the drain. Few days after Pen Press reported…