Nigerian Stories

She thought the cold touch was just a dream. On a sunny afternoon, 10-year-old [Arike] woke up to something impossible coiled on her bed. A snake. But this was no ordinary snake. Its eyes glowed. And it knew her name. "ELERIKO," it hissed. "I've been waiting for you." Now the child is bound to a heavenly mate she never asked for. A spirit. A guardian. A curse? Every night the visits get longer. Every day, the world gets more dangerous. Because not everyone wants ELERIKO to wake up. Will she run... or will she accept her fate? #Supernatural #AfricanMyth #Horror #Mystery #NigerianStory NEW CHAPTERS EVERY WEEK Part 1 of the ELERIKO Series

When young hearts handle love.

What if the life you were born into was never the life you were meant to settle for? For years, she has been told-sometimes gently, sometimes without words-that there are certain things a girl should want. A good education, yes. A respectable future, yes. But eventually, there is marriage, family, and a life that fits neatly into the expectations placed before her. She wants something different. Growing up in a middle-class Nigerian family, she has always dreamed of studying abroad and becoming a voice for young women who, like her, have been taught to make their dreams smaller. Then an opportunity presents itself. Oxford. Suddenly, the girl who was once told to be grateful for the opportunities she already had is competing for a chance to completely change the course of her life. But ambition comes with competition. Expectations follow her farther than she expected. And somewhere between the life she came from and the woman she is becoming, she begins to question what she truly wants. Maybe breaking a cycle isn't as simple as leaving home. Maybe changing the future means first understanding yourself. ALTER THE LOOP A story about ambition, identity, family, faith, friendship, competition, and finding the courage to want more.

My grandma has one rule: Never touch the drum in the locked room. I thought it was just superstition. Until I beat it once. Now it beats every night at 7:14pm from under my bed, calling my name.

Power. Purpose. Pain. What do you choose when the world fears who you are? When gods whisper and demons scheme, it is mortals who bleed. She is the prophecy: a child forged from the blood of a goddess and the Demon King, destined to shatter an ancient curse and unleash the horrors sealed away for centuries. Raised in secrecy by a father more monster than man, Naya is taught to feed on souls and wield destruction without mercy. But guilt is a seed too strong to kill. When her powers erupt and innocent lives are lost, Naya is cast out, alone and hunted. Her only ally is Zikora, a stubborn, sharp-tongued healer who sees past Naya's darkness... maybe even understands it. Together they set out to challenge destiny, power, and the blurry line between good and evil. But some truths burn too deeply. And some friendships are doomed from the start. As old gods stir, demons claw their way back into the mortal realm, and empires rise against one another, Naya must choose: fulfill the dark legacy she was born to, or burn her own path into legend. But some stories don't end in redemption. Fate is cruel, and love, crueler still.

She moved into her stepmother's mansion after her father's death. She didn't expect to fall for her stepmother's sons. Elena thought it was an accident. Until she found the messages. Now one brother wants to save her. The other wants to own her. And their mother wants her dead. Who can she trust when both sons are sleeping down the Hall Updates daily.

I was in Ijoko visiting my parents when Nigeria stopped working. Not with a bang. Not with a war. Just - one Tuesday, three trucks, a loudspeaker announcement, and suddenly there are men with guns on every street collecting levies and writing your name in a book. I was supposed to go back to Lagos on Monday. That was eight months ago. Now I don't leave the compound without greeting the man across the road first. Now my father is still preaching to eleven people in Agbado and won't stop no matter what. Now Simi from three streets down paid a price nobody is going to talk about out loud. Now there is a video on my phone that could get my whole family killed. Nigeria didn't fall. It just changed management. AFTER THURSDAY is a story about what happens to ordinary Nigerians - not soldiers, not politicians, not heroes - when the country they already knew was broken finally breaks completely.

Her life was perfect, it took just one afternoon for everything to go south. Asma'u had everything going well for her, school, work, friends even her love life and it takes her just a few pictures to realise not all that glitters is actually gold.

Tare, a Nigerian girl, grows up to be an architect and holds onto her goals, but what happens when Mr. Justin shows up with his own plans. Trauma...and love do make the perfect pair

> Sophie traveled from Lagos to Korea's most elite academy to stay invisible. > She failed on Day 1. > She spilled coffee on Lee Minho - the most dangerous boy in school. > Now he's obsessed with making her pay. And Chenzo, his cold best friend, won't stop staring at her... > Four bully kings. One Nigerian girl. Who will break first?

When you think someone is perfect, think again!!!

Everyone called her pretty, attention she never seeks for it because whenever she glimpse people stare, High standards for what she wants in a man yet they kept showing up and she kept turning them down but as we grow , Attention reduce, pride crumble, standards begin to lower and we begin to question what are we doing wrong, but the truth is that, time passes by real quick and the beauty that draws the attention fades, women are like flowers blossom during the day and shrinks by night, Here is a story about how beauty fades with time and how every decision we make in life will haunt, this isn't a love story, this is a sad story of regrets. This is a tale of lady who thinks beauty doesn't fades

Jola Ishola has always believed she knows exactly who she is. Eighteen, beautiful, outspoken, and obsessed with fashion, Jola has big dreams, a complicated love life, and one woman she has always considered her real mother: Idera, the woman who raised her. But everything changes after Idera's health begins to fail. Suddenly, secrets Jola never knew existed start crawling out of the shadows. The woman who gave birth to her returns. A powerful man from Lagos's elite circles discovers a daughter he never knew existed. And Jola finds herself standing in the middle of a family history built on lies, money, betrayal, and choices made before she was even born. As her world begins to unravel, Jola must decide who deserves her forgiveness and what she wants to do with the legacy she never asked for. Because sometimes, finding out where you come from is only the beginning. She was raised without a name. Now everyone wants a piece of her legacy.

"Darkness doesn't always hide. Sometimes, it blinds." *** Emmanuella Orinomwen Ignenedion. Meticulous. Pristine. Disciplined. Clean. A wonderful assistant pastor to my father's mega-church. That is the script I feed to the world. To my parents, I am the perfect, submissive daughter. But that is only what they are permitted to see. They have never heard the screams silenced by the fire. Or the nightmares' golden promise of unyielding terror. For a long time, I preferred it that way. I buried my survival inside a tight-knit bubble of schedules. Out of sight, out of mind. But my clockwork existence shattered the moment Mary forced her way into my orbit. Unpredictable. Uninvited. An eye that saw what no one else had seen. And she made me see too. Darkness. Gross darkness that fueled my father's church. A rotting ledger of hidden cash, stolen lives, and an ancient malice hiding right beneath our pristine marble floors. With her, I realized: Words can be as thick as knives. Smiles as thin as paper. And blood can ripple as cold as deep water. Holiness or piety is not by mere words or appearance. Because I know, now better than anyone, that anything can be faked. As even the devil masquerades as an angel of light. I spent my life blind to the abyss in my own home. This is the story of how I stopped pretending. Note: mentions of some triggering content in this book

THE REAL REEL A Surrender to Grace Spin-Off Amani Opara doesn't do contracts she can't control. She doesn't do brands she doesn't believe in. And she definitely doesn't do Tayo Adebayo. For three years, she's rejected every brand deal from his company, Pulse Media. She's built her platform on authenticity, and she refuses to let anyone turn her work into something it's not. Tayo, however, isn't used to hearing no. So when he decides to convince Amani that he's nothing like the man she thinks he is, he makes her an offer. Three months. She'll work with Pulse Media on her own terms. She'll date him. And when the three months are over, if she still doesn't trust him-or his company-they walk away. No pressure. No consequences. Clean break. It sounds easy. Until Tayo starts becoming the man Amani never expected him to be. Until Amani starts becoming the woman Tayo can't imagine walking away from. Because somewhere between the fake dates, the real feelings, and all the rules they made for themselves... the lines start getting blurry. "I bite." "I'm counting on it." Some love stories don't follow a script. Some start with stolen cars and CEOs.

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.

✨ Forced Marriage to the Emir's Son ✨ Zaynab Bello never imagined her life would change with a single sentence. "The Emir's family has chosen you for their son." Independent, stubborn, and fiercely protective of her freedom, Zaynab refuses to become another quiet wife trapped behind palace walls especially not for Khalid, the Emir's cold and feared son. But Khalid is not the man people think he is. Silent. Powerful. Dangerously calm. A man every woman wants... except her. Forced into a marriage neither of them expected, Zaynab enters a world of royal traditions, hidden family secrets, jealousy, pressure, and a love so intense it slowly destroys every wall between them. But loving Khalid comes with one terrifying problem The more he becomes her home The more afraid she is of losing herself in him. In a world where duty speaks louder than feelings, can two stubborn hearts survive a marriage that began without choice? Or will love be the very thing that ruins them both? 🔥 Northern Romance 🤍 Islamic Love Story 👑 Royal Family Drama 🌙 Slow Burn 🖤 Emotional & Romantic ✨ Forced Marriage Trope

"I was wondering....."he said holding his chin with his forehead creased as if he were thinking. "Umm hmm.."I said quite impatiently. "How many people have you killed so far, I mean...you're a terrorist right? and that's why you cover your hair with that hideous thing." I was dumbfounded and so shocked and looked at him as if he was crazy. And I swear there was nothing I wanted to do so bad at the moment than to slap his handsome face .Wait,What?? --------------------------@@@@@-------------------------------- Meet Ruwaydah, a cheerful girl from Nigeria who moved to London following a job transfer at her father's workplace. Things get rough for Ruwaydah as she realizes that she was in for more than she bargained for as she was bullied especially because of her religion and also her nationality. James Kent is your typical badboy. His good looks making him popular among the girls. To the teachers, he's a nuisance as he's always late to classes and he's got no manners. No one knew who he was underneath all the badboy covers until a certain girl..... Read more to find out about this two intriguing characters and how fate brought them together. Of course, the book won't be the same without some characters not to mention Ruwaydah's mischievous subconscious. + This is my first book and I've gathered a lot of courage to publish it, so please be patient with me and give this book a chance. =I don't appreciate snide comments =show your support by always tapping on the lovely vote star and sharing the story with your friends and loved ones. =Although its a muslim story, non muslims are welcome to read. Thank you very much

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Three weeks until her flight out of Lagos. Everything's booked, the visa, the ticket, her mother already telling the aunties she'll be gone by December. Then the small things start. A bus she missed that crashed an hour later. A wrong turn that put her exactly where someone needed her to be. Her grandmother's been watching her differently since the date got set. And there's a stone at the junction two streets from home that Ìyánu has walked past her whole life without once asking who tends it, or why.