Femi, a university student has been killed by overzealous men of the Oodua People?s Congress in the little town of Ago-Iwoye, sending a cloud of fear and uncertainty over it. But it is the retaliatory violence which begins as a ?peaceful protest? that turns the town into a war zone, leaving the king dethroned, his palace in flames and innocent students at the mercy of enraged indigenes.

About the book

This collection of 22 short stories is a quick and fast-paced taste of what Nwilo is capable of ? stories about love, death, being poor and even being too rich to know what you should be doing with your money, all laced with a touch of Nigerian authenticity, just how most people like it.

After They Left chronicles the life of a young woman, Mafeng and her two young children, Kim and Jugu, as they barely survive a mob inspired massacre.

In the Niger Delta creeks of Southern Nigeria, nine expatriates are being held hostage by militants fighting for control over the resources from their land. At the same time, a series of seemingly unconnected events rock the country.

Alex Randa, an agent of the Department of State Services, a celebrated hostage negotiator with a compelling record of successes is tasked by the president to secure the release of the hostages; and to also uncover the sponsors behind the militants. With nothing to go on but the phrase ‘Operation Raven’, her instincts, and three unlikely allies, Alex quickly learns that nothing is what it seems. Together, they must race against time to save not just the hostages but a nation on the brink of a bloody Civil War.

EXCUSE ME! is a collection of humorous essays and keen observations about being Nigerian by Victor Ehikhamenor. Touching on politics, love, immigration, as well as other broad subjects, the book successfully weaves a satirical narrative around contemporary African experience.

Towering above them is the story of Ummi al-Qassim, a princess of Bolewa, and the feud that attended her love?first for a nobleman, then for a poet?a feud that bequeaths her with madness and death. All four are bracketed by the modern city of Jos in Central Nigeria, where political supremacy and perverse parental love become motives for an ethno-religious eruption calculated to destroy the Nigerian State.

It contains potent rhetoric and satire on topical issues and personalities, ranging from Africa?s blood diamonds and inflation in Nigeria.

Clinical Blues is a moveable feast of ideas, recollections, aspirations and apparitions of desire in the collective but submerged consciousness of the new Africa. Dami Ajayi, on the basis of this collection follows in a great tradition of medical doctors who were writers, and is also able to catch the inflections of Anglo-American modernisms ? his poems resonate with Eliot?s arch wit and startling images and phrasing.

This self-study book is pacakaged in Izon and English languages. The aim of Izon Fie is to enable any interested person to gain a basic understanding of the Izon Language through reading and writing.

A gripping story of betrayal, rage and the facades we put up to hide our true selves.