Travails of Oluwole

Dressed in a plain white sleeve, with a cobalt blue coat draped over a smart pair of trousers of the same tone, and an attractive pair of cufflinks holding on to his cuffs was Oluwole. With the properly knotted polka dot tie on his neck, he looked exquisitely dashing!It was his 64th birthday. At 64 years of age, Professor Oluwole Ajayimore looked more youthful than his age foretold of him. He looked at his eyes in the mirror as he adjusted his glasses. It still bore the scars of a past bruise. He lifted his eyes to his old but treasured collection on his bedroom shelf and smiled. He took a picture frame of himself off the shelf; stared at it, and beamed with smiles and light laughter in between.Those type of smiles that arose from the joy and happiness gotten from an accomplished aim. He held the picture to his chest. So was the mid-morning of the old professor. Again, looking at the picture in his slightly wrinkled hands, he led himself in a blur back to his past. T

After closing from work early and on his way back home, Tunde was attacked by armed robbers.They made away with his car and all the valuable assets in it, bundled him into a nearby farmland and gang beat him. They left him almost lifeless.About half an hour after they left, the owner of the farmland came by his farm to round up for the day and found Tunde almost unconscious. He reached out to him and tried to get out any information that would be relevant in assisting him. "DI-VIN-E HOSP-IITA-LL”, were the only words that Tunde could manage to utter in his terribly bruised state. Knowing the place as it wasn’t too far from his farmland, he carefully lifted Tunde unto the back seat of his truck and with the little petrol he had left in it, he drove down to the hospital.When the young farmer brought Tunde in, the nurses and medical personnel easily identified him as the Doctor-in-charge and attended to him immediately.“I’m sorry Madam. Y

He heard the horn of Kate’s Toyota Camry car.“That should be her, right?”, Mrs. Sharon asked.Wole nodded affirmatively to her question.“Take care dear”Wole stood up and embraced Mrs. Sharon tightly.“Thank you so much for always being there for me Ma. You’re like the mother I never had”, Wole said amidst stifled tears.Mrs. Sharon returned the embrace warmly after which Wole ran off to meet his step-mother at the reception. He didn’t need a prophet to tell him that she wasn’t in a good mood. He stepped into the car without saying a word to Kate or even sparing her a glance. On their way back home, Wole noticed that Kate took a different route this time, not the usual one that leads to their house.After a short while, she pulled up at the front of a big house.“Stay here”, she said.Wole looked at her curiously as she stepped out of the car and m

Wole said a quick prayer in his mind. He tried to look at the picture of him and his father in his hand but the thick, tight ropes denied him access to it. He laid there helpless on the backseat even as the car continued to move. He finally succumbed to the intensity of the pains. Turning himself to the opposite direction, he bowed his head to sleep.Ambrose and Emeka put the cars’ stereo on the highest volume initially to drown out his incessant cries and sobs. Even though Wole had stopped crying for several minutes now, they still continued to blast the loud music through the speakers. This woke Wole up several times from sleep and only compounded the headache and pains he already had.“Wake up boy”, came an unfamiliar smooth voice startling Wole out of his sleep. Wole was having a bad dream where he saw his Dad been tossed into a river by two men dressed up in black.“NOOO!!!!”,Wole screamed.He was drenched in sweat and h

Trembling like a hen about to be slaughtered, she ran out of the room in fear and tears. She hated seeing his face. If not for the order he had given that every single one of Wole’s needs should be catered for, she wouldn’t have come. Charles had recruited both her and her younger sister when they were teenagers. She watched as he raped her 16 year-old sister. About 3 weeks later, her sister was confirmed pregnant. Charles was so furious and he ordered that the pregnancy be terminated immediately. Her sister died in the process of trying to terminate the pregnancy.That was one experience she would never forget in her life. She could have avenged her sister’s death but she dared not. Anyone who crossed the path of Mr. Charles Rowland or attempted to report him to the authorities died mysteriously and dreadfully.Wole seeing that the maid wasn’t successful in her venture stormed into the room with incessant shouts of- “I don’t like it