Short Story: Reveiw

Chapter 1
It is a few minutes to 7pm, the programme true life experiences on channel seven is about to start. The studio is in a frantic state, everyone is in excitement frenzy. Sandra, the anchor of the programme was shouting at the top of her voice. Today’s story was quite different from the others. It was a story that has been haunting her for a past few months. A friend’s mother had been sharing the story with her friend, catching the tit bits and getting intrigue, Sandra decided to pursue the story to the last. Although the incident happened about night months ago, it was still fresh and worth talking about. Finally Sandra got through to those involved and the have agreed to share their story.


 Jadesola was born in Ibadan, Oyo state to a polygamous family of ten. Her own mother gave birth to four, three girls and a boy. Things were a little bit rough in the beginning when jadesola’s mother couldn’t give birth to a boy, her father married another woman who also gave birth to girls but after a while jadesola’s mum gave birth to a boy.
Jade as fondly called by friends and relatives is the first born, she is a very responsible girl, warm and cheerful and very sympathetic. She is very dependable and also a good listener. She is a woman of every man’s dream.
Being from a polygamous family, people and observers expected envy, jealousy and hatred to prevail in their family as seen by other polygamous families around but on the contrary, theirs was a rather close family. There was love between them, anyone looking from outside wouldn’t realise all the children were not from a mother.
Jade, is a very strong willed, compassionate girl who is determined to go all the way in helping people. When it was time for her higher education, she chooses to study guidance and counselling. At twenty – three, she finished her degree programme and got posted to Enugu State for National Youth Service.

to be continued