Tag Archives: Oga Martins & His Kettle of Fishes

It was Aisha’s third day at the hospital where her husband was under intensive care in the accident and emergency ward having taken the fall for her, yet there was no glimmer of hope that her dilemma would end soon. Exactly two years ago she lost the son she bore for Martins tragically. For Aisha, another loss of a loved ...

It was the twelfth day in the month of April, 2014. Martins needed to leave the house with the speed of light to make the meeting he had slated for 12 noon.  Agbara to Surulere was several miles away; it was like moving from one end of Lagos to the other and he still had the dare-devil Lagos traffic to ...

Runo had finally been discharged from the hospital after spending a week on admission. The modeling agency she signed up with had agreed to settle the law suit against Mrs. Aisha Martins out of court following Runo’s pleas. Runo knowing that Martins would be the person at the receiving end of the fiasco had convinced her manager not to press ...

Martins walked into the MD’s office looking as pale as death.  One glance towards the MD’s desk and his hands quaked like aspen leaves in expectation of what he was to receive soon. The white envelope that would seal his fate was lying confidently on the desk with aplomb. Martins was downtrodden. Martins evasiveness  etched out the MD’S  curiousity. The ...

Martins knew his job was on the line, not even with the ugly incident that transpired in his office. Aisha had charged at the fragile Runo like an enraged bull poised for battle. The aftermath of that was a catastrophe. The near-collateral damage in his office was disturbing, considering the fact that his wife was the major culprit . Martins ...

Though it was raining and pouring down ceaselessly, Martins and Aisha were unaware as they continued their argument into the night. Aisha had stopped Martins from answering Runo’s calls yet again and the issue was really getting out of hand. Aisha had finally answered the call but that made matters even worse. Aisha had rained insults on Runo with no ...

It was Martins’ first official day at work in the capacity of Manager Sales, Agency and Property management. However he had come in pretty late and his MD as usual had jokingly reminded him of his stint as a mere marketer when he was almost sacked for sleeping on his first day at work. Martins thought he would have forgotten ...