I am the president of ghost readers association here
Sweet popcorn for you centino
I wish I could comment but being a lazy youth working very hard made me not
Maybe by the time I become oga for the top who speak in tongues with Transmission causing confusion I will
Sweetest popcorn for you centino trust fasting no dey trouble you much
Hunger no be body friend...let me go sell popcorn I dey come

eyesofpearls:



I totally agree!

Account created 2017, first post centino thread i comment my reserve

Hey centino, una weldone as you just bone my side o....kwantinu

I was going to say your story is centered on everyday happenings which is what keeps bringing people back. We love it.....Writing everything at once and selling will make most people lose interest sef.

I kinda like the way it comes every sunday. Gives me something to look forward to. I know I will sha get something to read on Sunday evenings after church.

I like your response by the way. Ehnehn Abeg please no let mama Akunna harm Maya and her boo o. Na beg I dey beg.

Oya chop kiss .....shebi you know I loff you and your story.

Lemme go back to my corner where I dey observe.

Mama Akunna is not all that bad now.... ok as centino rightly observed witches can be funny one minute they play good another minute evil they hungry them commit, at least someone in that compound is benefitting from mama Akunna parade that tout that can market anything marketable the business partner of De mama. Anyways I won't fancy that old woman anywhere near my street talk less of my compound, pressing things no be joke as if persin na loaf of bread witch they price.

lumzybo:
@centino, I think your reply to the lady’s observations and points was a little too harsh #IMO.
Anyways, your story; your rule. Still I follow

No na my guy. I don't think she feels that way. Thanks for following, still.

Faspen, OlufemiWhit, youngpiticle2, Folashadee, OkekeChristian. Thanks for showing up guys. Here for you

Adesina12:
I am the president of ghost readers association here
Sweet popcorn for you centino
I wish I could comment but being a lazy youth working very hard made me not
Maybe by the time I become oga for the top who speak in tongues with Transmission causing confusion I will
Sweetest popcorn for you centino trust fasting no dey trouble you much
Hunger no be body friend...let me go sell popcorn I dey come

No na. You dey try sef. You belong to a second category - semi-ghost like my main men honourable356 and chijioke17

yehmy:


Account created 2017, first post centino thread i comment my reserve

Hahahaha yehmy! Don't comment any reserve joor. I will tell you something. Noticed that too. She is one of about ten who joined because of this thread. But something about her moniker made me track her down. Guy, if it is the only thing you'll do this year, try and meet eyesofpearls. You'll thank me

sheycrown:
Hey centino, una weldone as you just bone my side o....kwantinu

I was going to say your story is centered on everyday happenings which is what keeps bringing people back. We love it.....Writing everything at once and selling will make most people lose interest sef.

I kinda like the way it comes every sunday. Gives me something to look forward to. I know I will sha get something to read on Sunday evenings after church.

I like your response by the way. Ehnehn Abeg please no let mama Akunna harm Maya and her boo o. Na beg I dey beg.

Oya chop kiss .....shebi you know I loff you and your story.

Lemme go back to my corner where I dey observe.

my very own sheycrown! swallowing the kiss

always a pleasure my dear. You always show up at the right time.

glad to be an important part of your Sundays. don't worry all be well with Maya and her boo. I hope.

KpagoGIN:
Mama Akunna is not all that bad now.... ok as centino rightly observed witches can be funny one minute they play good another minute evil they hungry them commit, at least someone in that compound is benefitting from mama Akunna parade that tout that can market anything marketable the business partner of De mama. Anyways I won't fancy that old woman anywhere near my street talk less of my compound, pressing things no be joke as if persin na loaf of bread witch they price.

Chop knuckle my guy

eyesofpearls:




I totally agree!

Me too

Oga Centino, good morning sir.
Abeg food never done?
I really need an update to make my Friday complete....pls....

Evathyst:
Alternatively, you could provide a platform through which we (your readers) can donate as a show of our appreciation for this wonderful work.

I hate it when people blame the Government for not appreciating talent, forgetting that we ourselves can organize ourselves into our own Government. There are many well meaning Nigerians here, I'm sure a good number of them wouldn't mind donating handsomely as a show of appreciation.


No be only prayer go belle full Centino o, even if na #200, if all of us donate, the guy pocket go full. Like the Bible said; 'He that watereth others shall be watered'. Centino, you deserve to be watered. Or what do you all think?

@eyesofpearls, queenitee.

I see you agree with this. Sorry I missed this part yesterday. Something to think about for someday. Obviously, Seun's Nairaland is not the platform for this and I have no time to run a site now. This story however is being written principally for my amusement. I'm happy to share for free here on Nairaland. I must, however, mention this guy Dav8King. Dude so badly wanted to appreciate me such that even when I first did shakara he persisted. We hooked up eventually and within seconds my airtime balance swelled. It could have even been my bank account sef and I no for complain. If anyone really means to reach me, I'm sure they can. But that is not why I am doing this. Not yet.

Centino:


@eyesofpearls, queenitee.

I see you agree with this. Sorry I missed this part yesterday. Something to think about for someday. Obviously, Seun's Nairaland is not the platform for this and I have no time to run a site now. This story however is being written principally for my amusement. I'm happy to share for free here on Nairaland. I must, however, mention this guy Dav8King. Dude so badly wanted to appreciate me and even when I first did shakara he persisted. We hooked up eventually and within seconds my airtime balance swelled. It could have even been my bank account sef and I no for complain. If anyone really means to reach me, I'm sure they can. But that is not why I am doing this. Not yet.

Hmmm, what you said made sense, hmm

[/color][color=#000099]Centino I've been standing for months now reading this story because I'm in ghost... Now gimme a chair if I'm welcome...
But this time, I'll stay in line...

I officially unghost myself....Been following since you started...This story is just lit....KEEP IT UP BRO

centino u made me comment on nairaland for d first tym since 2014,ur stori sounds so real,all i can say is wooow

nifebabe:
centino u made me comment on nairaland for d first tym since 2014,ur stori sounds so real,all i can say is wooow

why are you lying nitori olorun?
From the look of it you just register this year....and you are only with 5 posts!
If you have to lie,lie with sense!
Not on a forum like this!
And to Centino...Welldone

bookiesondebt:

why are you lying nitori olorun?
From the look of it you just register this year....and you are only with 5 posts!
If you have to lie,lie with sense!
Nor on a forum like this!
And to Centimo...Welldone

you self you got no love..... be like you don turn another Mama Akunna.

KpagoGIN:

you self you got no love..... be like you don turn another Mama Akunna.

Don't mind me jare..
But on a serious note if you want to praise a writer,praise him.
Why do they have to put ajasa?

I never knew you hated ghost readers this much..well am now visible.

I like your logic about life..good story centino.

bookiesondebt:

Don't mind me jare..
But on a serious note if you want to praise a writer,praise him.
Why do they have to put ajasa?

the sort of ajasa ndifereke give that one eye neighbour that made him believe he can pepper that nurse abi.... anyways the statement might have been out of excitement, you self know how the story they knock reason sometime.

KingKunleClown:
[/color][color=#000099]Centino I've been standing for months now reading this story because I'm in ghost... Now gimme a chair if I'm welcome...
But this time, I'll stay in line...

Good to have you. Welcome on board

johncasey1:
I officially unghost myself....Been following since you started...This story is just lit....KEEP IT UP BRO

Nice to have you man! Glad you like my story.

nifebabe:
centino u made me comment on nairaland for d first tym since 2014,ur stori sounds so real,all i can say is wooow

Welcome to my thread nifebabe. Nice to have you here

bookiesondebt:

why are you lying nitori olorun?
From the look of it you just register this year....and you are only with 5 posts!
If you have to lie,lie with sense!
Not on a forum like this!
And to Centino...Welldone

SONFGOD12:
I never knew you hated ghost readers this much..well am now visible.

Now you know lol. Thanks for showing face

SONFGOD12:
I like your logic about life..good story centino.

Na so o. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

Glad you like the story.

Thanks for the midweek "update", just seeing it today, at least you gave me lil joy after a crazy steeplechase test.. nice one centino

Oga centino na man you be. May our God lord richly bless and protect you as you have decided to put smiles on our faces with this wonderful piece of work. Since I have been an ardent reader of stories on nairaland, no author has been able to impressed me and stand on his belief like you do. It shows you are a principled and man of integrity. Imagine evathyst trying to deprive to deprive us of this good story. Thanks for the reply you gave her and you literary spoke my mind. Once again thanks for this great work. Am no longer a ghost reader. *smiles*

Centino:


Hi Evathyst.

Thanks for the critique and appreciation. First thing I should do is tell you about myself. I will do that by reproducing here something I wrote on a thread by EvaJael - one of the writers I really like here.

“If I want to read a novel, I write one” – Benjamin Disreali

I’m Centino. Relatively new here. The above quote is why I write. I have no heroes of the letter; I follow in the footsteps of none. I am my own inspiration. I got bored stiff with “literature” and began to fancy myself to do a good enough job for me. I reckoned if I write my kind of book, surely I would have likeminded people who will appreciate my style. I do not like fluff. If something happened in the afternoon, tell me what happened. I don’t see the point of describing the sun. How the environment laughed because the yellowish red hue of the sun tantalized the roofs. What’s that? I know what an afternoon looks like! I like a story. A good plot. Who likes who? Who hates who? Who is after who? Who fvcked who? The human experience robust and I just want to hear of it. From every perspective. And for goodness sake go straight to the point! If an adverb will drive home a point, I will use an adverb. If a simile sounds silly, I cut it out. If you are obsessed with words and you want to w*nk to them go and read a poem. Rules? They are not for me. I will write my own the way I want to. “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self” – Cyril Conolly. Word.

“The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income… “Ellen Gilchrist.

And I will add, then you can experience true freedom. I will not write about an asylum seeking PHD holder who ends up as a cab driver in New York so that I can be appreciated internationally. I will not carry my Katakata Street to okada books and sell 10 copies in one year so that I can get something for my troubles. I will not read “how to be a successful author” and burn myself out trying to sound like someone else. If you want to be the next Chinua Achebe, sorry you came 60 years late. So I make sure I am not hungry. If the money comes, I want it on my own terms. So I write when I want to write, if I want to write, how I want to write. The only people I want to kill are the ghost readers on nairaland. Come on guys…Tell a brother and a sister that s/he is trying. You don’t know how far that can go. You think this is easy? Try it.

Finally. Most tellingly… “One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions” – Salman Rushdie

At Easter I wrote a chapter I called Food for thought. In it I asked why anyone thinks Jesus whose flesh was dust like mine and yours would ascend to heaven where there is no such consistency. Do you think God is in the business of impressing people? Do you think creating heaven and earth and trying to save the souls of man is a circus? (Didn’t put it quite like that but you get my drift…). The result? I got the fewest likes that week. And guess what? It doesn’t matter. I will say it. I am a writer.

Aunty EvaJael. That is me o.

Having said that, you can now bundle over here and see what I do for nairaland mostly on Sundays. Many thanks.
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Now to those 3 questions.

1. I don't know why mama Akunna became what she became o. Na so I see am. I suppose it is because evil is irrational. I have known real life witches and seen confessions. Sister, they always have no clue why they have become what they have become.

2. I was tempted to go that route but I do not want to take the story away from the compound yet. Criminals don't always get arrested at any rate. Some vanish into thin air even in real life. Let's just say Talabi is still on the run. Don't be surprised to see him again along the like *wink*

3. Oh yeah. It centers on Ndifreke and his pregnant girlfriend for now. But she go born the pikin one day na...the plan has always been for this story to go on in perpetuity. As KpagoGIN noted, I also try to infuse current goings on and so for as long as things are still happening in Naija, inhabitants of 225 Katakata Street will still be there to talk about these things. The original idea was to get a group of common people from whose perspective we can view our polity. But the thing got away from me. Anyhow sha, I go just continue dey rough am dey go. I pray people continue to have interest.

Ultimately it's pure fun for me. If I can contribute a little laughter and enlightenment people really appreciate, I'm happy. I know the money will come. My only problem na ghost readers

Centino:


Hahahaha yehmy! Don't comment any reserve joor. I will tell you something. Noticed that too. She is one of about ten who joined because of this thread. But something about her moniker made me track her down. Guy, if it is the only thing you'll do this year, try and meet eyesofpearls. You'll thank me

you sure about that let her come here o, eyesofpearls your attention is needed

olumose001:
Thanks for the midweek "update", just seeing it today, at least you gave me lil joy after a crazy steeplechase test.. nice one centino

Pleasure is mine

hotswagg12:
Oga centino na man you be. May our God lord richly bless and protect you as you have decided to put smiles on our faces with this wonderful piece of work. Since I have been an ardent reader of stories on nairaland, no author has been able to impressed me and stand on his belief like you do. It shows you are a principled and man of integrity. Imagine evathyst trying to deprive to deprive us of this good story. Thanks for the reply you gave her and you literary spoke my mind. Once again thanks for this great work. Am no longer a ghost reader. *smiles*

Amen, my bro. Thanks for deactivating the ghost mode