Watt9ja Stories

Lekan Adeyemi is thirty years old, a successful investment banker, and doing everything right - including dating Ayomide Coker, twenty-six years old, HR Manager at an oil and gas firm, the daughter of his father's business partner and the kind of woman everyone expects him to marry. Imade Osazee is eighteen, a law student at the University of Lagos, his next-door neighbor, his younger sister's best friend, the girl he has pampered since she reached out to him at 5 months old. She has been in love with him since she was sixteen. He has been trying not to notice her since she stepped out of a boutique changing room in a champagne-gold dress after her eighteenth birthday, and awakens something in him. What starts as a congratulatory letter after her Miss UNILAG pageant win becomes a correspondence neither of them can stop or name. And what cannot be named eventually has to be said - to each other, to their families, to a world that had very different plans for both of them. Ayomide Coker watches a love story that isn't hers unfold before her eyes, but she is determined for her relationship with Lekan Adeyemi to work, as he is the man she intends to marry. She asks him to set boundaries between him and the girl she feels is a threat, which he does till he can't. This is not just a simple love story. It is a story of the clash between personal desire and familial expectations. It is the story of two people who realise their love began long before they even knew it. A story of two people who always find a way back to each other despite the circumstances that separate them. A battle between two women who decide that they have to get what they desire the most, by any means necessary.

Two years ago, Ebuka Okafor (33) lost everything. Once one of Lagos' most successful electronics dealers, he watched his business collapse overnight after a devastating betrayal. His assets were seized, his passport confiscated, and the future he had worked so hard to build disappeared. Now, living quietly in a boys' quarters while fighting to clear his name, love is the last thing on his mind. Dr. Anita Nwaeze (26) has spent her life making sensible choices. Brilliant, compassionate, and fiercely independent, she has no shortage of wealthy admirers-including the charming Kingsley, the man everyone believes she should marry. But when a chance encounter brings the quiet, resilient Ebuka into her life, she discovers that the richest man in the room isn't always the one with the deepest heart. As their unlikely romance blossoms, they must face disapproving family, relentless social pressure, painful ghosts from Ebuka's past, and powerful enemies determined to keep the truth buried. Just when they begin to believe they've found their happily ever after, shocking evidence emerges that could destroy lives-or finally set an innocent man free. In a world where wealth commands respect, betrayal wears a familiar face, and love is constantly tested by pride, ambition, and prejudice, Anita and Ebuka must decide whether the greatest risk is falling in love... or walking away from it. Because sometimes, the strongest foundations are built only after everything else has fallen apart.

Myra Nwaeze (25) is the founder of Myra Events, one of Lagos's most sought-after event planning companies. She is sharp, composed, and relentlessly capable - a woman who has built something real from nothing and carries the weight of it daily. She is also, underneath all of that, a lover girl to her core: someone who believes in the spark, who loves deeply when she loves, and who has learned - through experience - to guard that depth carefully. When her close high school friend Ada Okoli asks her to plan the biggest wedding of her career, Myra takes the job with her usual thoroughness. Ada's family is old money. Her mother, the formidable Mrs. Okoli, has been quietly grooming Myra as a potential match for her eldest son Chidi - charming, handsome, and exactly the kind of man Myra has spent years learning to step around. What nobody accounts for is the other son. Uche Okoli (30) is an architect who spent thirteen years building his life in New York before a drunk driver changed everything six months ago. The accident left him with scars, a walking stick, and a leg that may never fully recover. It also left him with PTSD, anxiety, and an acute sense of unworthiness that he has been managing - poorly - since he returned to Lagos a month before the novel opens. He is quiet, patient, and perceptive in the way of someone who has stopped expecting good things and pays very close attention to anything that resembles one. Their first meeting is thirty seconds of professional courtesy and cold efficiency on her part. She finds him unsettling in a way she files immediately under irrelevant. He finds her coldness fascinating in a way he cannot explain. The problem is that they keep ending up in the same rooms - at the engagement dinner, in the village compound for the traditional wedding, at the Lekki mansion during white wedding preparations - and thirty seconds becomes something neither of them planned for.

An illegal marriage, a vicious frenemy and a threat against Todun's life. The only thing that conceals their secret is an eighteen year old spiritual child, predestined to death. *** Todun Fajuyi is in a relationship with Dotun Elliot, her childhood lover, but not legally married. Then she meets Pearl, her daughter's best friend (also the president's daughter) and accepts her into the family. However, slowly, Todun loses everything. Even worse, the more she tries to fight back, the more danger she puts her family in. What will she do? And is Pearl responsible for it all? Copyright ©2022 MadeenahJunaid

#2 in watt9ja #3 in adverts ________ Can't find an interesting book to read? Are you new on Wattpad and you're tired of reading the same old, boring stories, over and over again... You're definitely at the right place! Here is a selection of heart-gripping books from Nigerian Wattpaders!! After reading, I'm sure you'll fall in love with most books here and even recommend to others. Welcome to MANBOW, 2021. A house filled with lots of joyfully spiced and amazing stories. Definitely, you won't regret adding this into your library. As the year begins, I've gently picked and selected all the most intruding stories and packaged it into one book. Please, feel free to comment any recommendations for stories if you probably want to promote your story as well. -@Madinah_Writes Cover Credit: All thanks to my beautiful and talented graphic designer; @ardi_lover. Please follow her account.👌 Xxx

Issue #1 Jan 2020 🇳🇬What WATT9JA Magazine is all about 🇳🇬20 problems writers face 🇳🇬Introducing WATTNIGERIA with Lazypennaija 🇳🇬How to get reads 🇳🇬High school love, Yay or nay? Teefabulous 🇳🇬High School Love, Yay or nay? Royallyblossom 🇳🇬10 new books you've got to read.

Welcome to Emerald Hills High, where wealth and social media reign supreme. In this prestigious school for Nigeria's elite, five teenagers will stop at nothing to claim the top spot. Meet the players in this game of power and fame: - Adanna, the queen bee with a sharp tongue and a talent for manipulation. - Marietta, the new kid on the block who yearns for a normal teenage life after years of her parents dictating everything in her life. - Nneoma, the social justice warrior with a passion for activism and a secret to hide. - Kayode, the charming heir to a business empire with a hidden vulnerable side. - Dapo, the tech whiz with a genius-level IQ and a plan to take down the system. As alliances are forged and broken, these five students will engage in a ruthless battle for dominance. But when the stakes are high and the secrets are deadly, who will emerge victorious? And at what cost? ××(very slow updates.)

Melanie never meant to kiss a stranger. One impulsive moment leaves her running away in embarrassment, convinced she'll never see the mysterious man again. But fate has other plans. When their paths cross once more, Deji is determined to know the woman who stole a kiss and unknowingly stole his peace of mind. Gentle, patient, and impossible to ignore, he slowly breaks through Melanie's walls, making her believe that maybe love doesn't always end in heartbreak. Just when she starts to trust her heart, the past comes knocking. Old wounds reopen, dangerous secrets surface, and the perfect love story they've been building begins to crack. Can two people who found each other by chance survive the truth that's waiting for them? Or will one kiss become the beginning of the greatest heartbreak of their lives?

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Pansy Julius, an adventurous young 'Aboki' pens his experiences which he'd had for being different and Nigerian. It revolves around forbidden taste in a Not too forgiving or tolerating country. 'It's Definitely less than my diary and a bit more than a biography' Beyond that he goes far enough to include intriguing experiences he'd had beyond the whole queer thing. Still trying to fit in, he discovers something even queerer... What could that be?

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We all can relate somehow sha. ~~~ I know I suck at descriptions but this is just some relatables that I am very sure every Nigerian Teenage girl relates to. Enjoy!

Watt9ja Magazine Issue V May 2020

this will be #1 of the 9+JA BOOK REVIEW and it's for all wattpaders and whatsappers ( 😂 what the heck is whatsappers ? ) and there is gonna be winners And losers ( 😇 joking no losers because everyone is learning one way or the other and we love ❤ y'all for that ) Now this is how it works ......... To find out how it works you know what you gonna do ? DO YOU 🤔

When the world goes spinning because of a time machine invention that went wrong. One could fall in any country, any Era, and in any situation in the tick of an hour. Jakande, a poor African girl who had always dreamt of studying abroad, finds herself in this situation. Determined to survive and find her missing family, she realizes that it also released the Devils from hell. To this, Jakande wonders where the angels from heaven were. Would she survive all of this? How long will it take to end the spinning before it consumes the world? Copyright ©2022 MadeenahJunaid First Published: 01.10.2022 Last Published: 31.12.2022

She's emotionally unstable. He's a hopeless romantic. She leads a life of orchestrated bedlam trying to not to stray from her characteristic mode of living. He lives life as though it was without restraint, as free as a bird. When an unexplainable pull draws them together time after time; She will either fight it or keep her head above water and learn to embrace love and acceptance? Most times you chose who you fall in love with, then again most times you don't. ♧♧♧ 'Where must we go... We who wonder this wasteland In search of our better selves?' The First History Man.

Why So Inferior? is a hilarious and chaotic dive into the mind of an overthinker battling a crippling inferiority complex-but don't let that fool you. Beneath the sarcasm and self-deprecation lies a heartwarming (and occasionally disastrous) journey of self-discovery. If you've ever felt like life is an unedited sitcom and your brain won't stop analyzing every cringeworthy moment, Why So Inferior? will have you laughing, relating, and rooting for one fabulously flawed heroine trying to survive love, friendship, and the mess in between. Dysfunction has never been this entertaining.

After 7 years of being apart, Sandra Obizie, and Daniel Clement meets in an unexpected circumstance. Back then, he had cheated on her with her best friend, Damilola, and Sandra had nothing but hate for him. It puzzles Sandra between having Daniel back into her life and letting go of the past. Fortunately, destiny made them board the same ship for a sibling's wedding. On their way to the wedding venue, while Sandra tries her best to avoid Daniel on the ship, it suddenly sinks. One of them would have to survive... save the day, or fall deep in water. Copyright ©2023

"So I was just a pawn in your game." "Why did you choose politics over me and mummy?" "Aisha that's not true." "Then what's true? Tell me what is true! The only truth here is that you've been feeding me lies all my life! I thought you loved me, turns out it's all politics." "I do." "I see. That's why you got me married based on lies, separated me from my maternal family based on lies and took Abulkhair in, based on lies." * Politics is a dirty game, but you won't know that this is true until you're in the center of it all, until you're a pawn in its wicked game, until you're the queen in its crazy twisted game of chess. Eesh didn't believe the saying, heck she didn't even know the saying existed, until she was surrounded by it, until she became the queen in her father's wicked game of chess, until she realized that her whole life was a sick game of politics, a sick lie! * Politics is a game full of secrets. Secrets can't be kept hidden without the use of political tactics, and politics can't be done without having dirty secrets. Alhaji Muhammad knew that, which was why he fed his daughter lies, why he kept everything a secret from her, why he pushed her into a marriage she wasn't supposed to be in. * Politics, lies, deciet, secrets, love, heartbreak and more politics, all for the CLASSICAL MUSLIMAH. STARTED: 1st December, 2020. COMPLETED: 27th March, 2023 #3 watt9ja 15th December, 2020. #1 watt9ja 17th August, 2021

||-Ongoing-|| ♦In A Silence That Speaks Volumes♦ ♦{Love{Betrayal{Lies{Marriage}♦ ~~~~~~~~~~ 'I shouldn't tell you this Praise, I should take it to my grave but I can't. I must tell you least I will never live.' 'Simi, you are scaring me.' 'Praise, I love you, you know that?' she asked him. 'Yes, yes I know and I love you too Simisola,' he told her. 'I shouldn't Praise, I shouldn't. But I must,' she continued saying as she cried more heartbreakingly. 'What is it Simi? What must you tell me but mustn't?' he asked in a voice that did not take no for an answer. 'I slept with Collins.' ~~~~~~~~~~ A wife is more haunted than her husband about something that should have haunted him instead. And their marriage becomes unstable and a shadow of what it used to be. This is a story of love and marriage. It is based on the trials that the chaos of marriage can bring. I hope you enjoy the book! @OmaPhinaPhire🔥 Highest Rankings On Wattpad: #1 Satisfying #3 Wattpadnaija #4 Watt9ja #4 Africanbooks #5 Africaromance #8 Selfloathing #12 Nigerianbooks #13 Nigerianromance #14 Wattnaija #15 Nigerianwriter