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I am having exams at the moment, so updates will be a bit slower. I will try and work something out soon.

Please I need comments, as I don't have any hope of making front page. So its only comments that encourage and vice versa.

As he got to the door of the office, about to knock, he heard a voice from inside the office.

"Come in, Tade. "

Tade, obviously bemused about the way the man recognised him even before he opened the door, walked in.

"You walk the same way your brother did." He started.
"Does it run in the family? It seems so."

"What do you mean sir?" Tade looked surprised.

"You walk in fast steps, two audible steps forward, then one silent step before you make another two steps forward, so for someone that pays attention to footsteps, he realizes the inaudible step too. Am I wrong?"

Tade shook his head, obviously amazed at this lecturer's assessment of his walking pattern, which he just recognised himself.

"You see, some people have familiar walking patterns that distinguish them from others." Mr Kunle said.
"Its only the observant folks that can pick that. You can sit down."

Tade quickly sat. "Did you know my brother?" He asked the lecturer.

Mr Kunle scratched his brow. "I did know him, he was my friend and associate. Its a shame what happened to him."

'Sir, please can you tell me more about him,when he was in school?" Tade probed with his eyes.

"I won't do that, for that's not what I called you for" Mr Kunle said, looking a bit stern. "When is Dr. Mrs Oyewole ending her lecture?"

"Next week" Tade said, obviously disappointed.

"Then tell me the very day she finishes. You can go."

As Tade walked towards the door, he called him back.

"We will discussed your brother later, not now." He said.

It looks good but there are one or two things you may want to improve on.

1. The story looks a bit scattered, like it lacks continuity. Maybe your chapters are too short but the fact is that the story seems distorted. I can't actually understand what is happening in the story and am sure am not the only confused person here.

2. Watch the way you capitalize words.

Apart from that the story looks good.

Great work here.

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The next day started with a lot of optimism for Tade and co. As he headed to his class, a classmate of his bumped into him.

"Tade, Mr Kunle Falade is calling you."
As soon as he said that, he took off quickly, like someone was following him.

Tade looked at the dude, obviously surprised at the behavior, but he shrugged his shoulders and moved on. Academic issues can drive someone crazy at times.

As he walked towards the man's office, he started to think. Why will the man call him at this period? He was the second lecturer to be taking Criminology and the Human mind, one of the most interesting courses in Law. Of course Tade had heard about him from previous students who praise him to the high heavens also speak of how he lights up the course.

The problem Tade had was that he never called the class-representative before it was his turn to teach. He was that methodical that it sort of bothered Tade that he was called.

Obviously, he has a sort of interest in Tade and considering what happened previously in his Part One, Tade was not feel cool about it.

Law Lecturers seem to harbour trouble.

Thanks @ Sammix and tolam4skywd.


Larrysun and Rovyer, where are you?

Chinedu turned around, looking for a particular fellow with the bon-fire the only aid to his sight.

"Where is Ace?" Chinedu growled at his subordinates, who searched themselves. Ace was nowhere to be found, leaving Chinedu vexed. As he was about to pounce on someone, Ace showed up.

Ace, 6Ft 3, was not a guy to trifle with. His muscles rippled with sheer power as his chest , barely contained by the T-shirt on him, was of a wider span than Superman's own. His face, dark like chocolate, was handsomely crafted with slight cuts on his cheek counting for tribal marks. His real name; Oluwaseyi Taiwo.

"Ace, where were you? Why did you come late to today's meeting? You know the rules here!" Chinedu bellowed, obviously not pleased that Ace 'bounced into the area.

"My lord Capone, I am sorry. Chief Ogunlana asked for my presence."

"So what did you bring from there? Don't tell me nonsense!" The recently 'balmmed' members watched the scene with interest. They knew Ace to be arrogant and controlling, it was cool to see him cower, at least that's what they taught.

"He gave me information sir, personal information. Shall I speak about it?"

"No, leave that for later. Let's start our meeting proper." Chinedu's face molded to something softer.

Ace started giving information about Chuks and Toke, having replaced Mosquito. He relayed all that has happened between the two, including their big fallout in Fajuyi.

"That's good. The young man has gained some sense." Chinedu said. "You see," he turned around facing the cult, "there is no need to use force at all times. A little touch and he is gone."

They continued the meeting, giving information on all the available jobs. At the end, Chinedu split the group into three; One group followed Ace to the SUG elections, a second group of two followed Chinedu himself to assassinate the governorship candidate and the third group were left as back-up for both teams. As soon as they were done, Chinedu turned round and shot into the dark bush, stunning a few cult members. He went in there and returned with a huge snake, which the groups that were on a mission cooked and ate. He then dismissed them.

Nobody?

Who do we choose?



Madness!
What you ask from us, Madness!
Madness called civic responsibility
Madness I call it, oh yes its madness!


We call it power
Yea, the power to chase our defectors
And put in our benefactors
And those that wish us well

Alas! For those who we have to chose
Are only perceived pretenders
For those around them mask their truths
And amplify their lies

For there is one
A sitting president
Whose failures are as long as the Twin Towers
And success as short as a hobbit's home
And there stands the contender
A man of no easy means
Feared by all those fattened by the bounty of the land
Yet is torn out of his tongue
As his old age is more a puzzle than an answer
And a fattened few a contraption of his reputation

Who shall we chose?
Especially at this period of lull
And graveyard gloom
As our previous folly stares at us.
And our failure to be with sense brings forth fruit
We look for a savior
Yet we are not sure of any of these

For its in one's watch that we land at this dead pool
And another can be blinded to sell us out.
Aye, my fears speak so loud
But its not unfounded.

So therefore solve this puzzle
This maddening madness
Who should we chose?

Later that night, a certain meeting took place.

It took place in that familiar shadowy place where agents of evil and death stays and preys in the dark of the night. The only place where his kind of people could have a place to discuss their agenda.

Dangerous agendas

Its in such place that Chinedu gathered his force, the full power and might of the Ravens, for this was an important meeting, a meeting to take positions and undertake important jobs.

The first agenda on the list concerned the elections. The elections, a result of a judicial readjustment, was holing in a few weeks. Of course, his client would have wanted to rig the elections, but considering how that panned out, he wanted a more permanent solution, in case another rigging goes awry. He wanted his opponent dead.

The second was another client who wanted his opponent dead. This client, however was candidate in the SUG elections, whose opponent had hired a rival cult group to protect him and kill the client.

The third case was a dual case; Chuks relationship with Toke came to the spotlight, while another girl had rudely refused the advances of one of them and launched a scathing retort at the whole fraternity.

Two other cases were brought up, both involving assassinations. Chinedu quickly sorted out the business of the day, starting with Chuks and Toke.

Royver:
ok send me the link lemme have a look

www.nairaland.com/2048177/tade-rise-activist

That's the link.

Wow, is that it? That is so wonderful that I can't find the word to describe it.


Errm, Royver can you mentor me, please? Abeg, ejo, please. But at least help me give your comments and criticism on my ongoing story: Tade- the rise of an activist.

Thanks to all those that have answered me. I kinda write poems from the blue, so adding rhymes or not may not be my forte.

However, I will work on that and also on the length.

P.S I actually thought it was too long too.

Nice poems

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I tag una because I need comments and constructive criticism on this poem- not much of a poet sha.

© Osemekeh Ugochukwu Micheal. All rights reserved.

I walked through this life
Battered and bruised
Confidence long gone
Heart to fight almost stolen.

I fought against my demons
I fought, dragging down my demons
But the more I fought, the more I struggled
And I fell a couple of times.

I looked myself in the dirt
Failure staring me on the face in my mind
People staring at me in the physical
Parents, siblings pushing to help
But I keep seeing failure through their eyes
With no confidence, I keep stealing glances at others
Trying to copy everybody and nobody

But then I met him
Him, who gave so much for me
He who believed in me before my parents were born
He called me blessed,loved and awesome
He claimed that he wanted me the way I was
The way I am.

It was hard to believe
But I really had no choice
Therefore I carried my tired bones
My crushed body
And began fighting anew


Of course my demons will not give up without a fight
They were storming come-backs
And fight-backs
They were using my past and my mind
Trying to wreck a present I was trying to build
And I was soon flat on the ground again.

But this time I looked at him, or rather he looked at me.
And we exchanged fist bumps
I exchanged power with him
And he pats me on the back
And tells me to get up back
For people need me
They need me and I must win because of them

He sends friends on my way
Church folks and others
But then he remind me that its him that is my source of strength
Not me
Then I realised
That my greatest weakness will always be myself
And as far as I can remember to remember him
I will always win

So I stand once more
Carrying myself up once more
Waking up my heart to fight
My confidence up
Realising that its not only me
But me and him
Like Kyuubi and Naruto
I must stay close with him
To win this war

So I fight my demons again
And at times I fail to meet up
But I see my victory ahead of me
And I stand
Not me, but Him in me
Christ rises up in me
And I stand to win this war
For me and for others
For I must have faith for them
And faith in Christ
For I follow the Savior's path

Meanwhile, Tade was chatting with Shade at the bunker below Covered Pavilion.

"Tade, how far with your babes now?" She asked him. Tade acted surprised and miffed, yet he said nothing.

"Is that the way you will greet me after all this while? Shade, you are not a good friend. We have not seen each other for a whole session and na this question you come ask?"

"But we dey chat for BBM na" Shade said. "Abi that one does not qualify?" Tade shook his head stubbornly.

"Oya sorry, how are you?" She asked. Tade smiled and answered back.

"So how your babes?" She asked with Tade frowning.

"No form for me jare, as if I no see all those babes wey dey follow you for your department."

"Shade, I hold a position there, as a class rep" Tade replied. "There is no babe anywhere, unless you want to call Wande that."

"Wande? Wande! Why her, Tade? Wande is a dangerous person."

"She's just a friend, Shade. I have had her as a friend for a while and nothing evil has befallen me. In fact there is something I wanted to ask you, Shade but that will be later. How is Lekan?"

Shade pouted, obviously displeased at Tade's objective of dodging questions. "I and Lekan have broken up."

"Eh? What happened?"

"Well, we grew apart. That's all."

Tade checked his watch. "Shade, I have to go. Need to be in a meeting now." He picked himself and left before she could ask anything.

Everything seemed to have gone well at this point, Tade and Co were in their third year, Made was already in a political post in his department(P.R.O), Shittu was also doing good and Chuks seemed to have settled some sense into his head by reducing his intensity as pertaining to Toke. All seemed good.

At the flip-side, Toke was trying hard to awaken what she had felt were flames of love from Chuks. She tried personal visits,cooking for him, helping him out in errands, even the ones he did not ask for. Many a student wondered what would drive her to do so much for Chuks. Meanwhile this gestures, rather than make the friendship smoother, was adding rough edges as Chuks was becoming uneasy with all her antics. It all came to an head one morning.

"Toke, what's the meaning of all this?" Chuks said harshly to her, after for the umpteenth time she had fried some yam and plantain and brought them to him.

"Its for you." She said, gently placing her hands on him. Chuks instantly slapped those hands away.

"Toke, why are you trying to foment trouble between me and Chinedu? Isn't our friendship enough?"

"What do you mean by that?" She snarled at him. "Is it because I have taken out time to be good to you, that's why you insult me? Who do you think you are, compared to me?"

"Toke, that's secondary. The simple fact is that you are doing things that are meant for Chinedu for me. I understand one or two random dishes and I appreciate that, but this everyday presentation of food is not it. Toke, I can't and won't be your boyfriend, simple!"

"Chuks, why are you talking like this? You know my feelings for you, why hurt me?"

"Toke, I do not wish to hurt you but if that's the only way that I can put it in your head, I will have no choice."

"I see. So that's why you have been behaving weird to me eh? Like we were never friends?"

"See, I can't continue risking a lot because of 'your' agenda."

"My agenda? That's so wrong, Chuks! Yes, I needed your help in academics but you think that the reason I came so close to you? Chuks, is that what you think?"

"I know your agenda Toke and I am not interested. I don't want a relationship with you, period! Focus all this attention on Chinedu, he will appreciate it a lot."

Toke eyes burst into tears. "You can do this, Chuks? You? You!" She walked away.

Chuks looked at her swaying her as5 off and he wondered

Women!

The second semester examination started with pace, carrying everyone's attention away from other activities and events. Boyfriends abandoned their girlfriends, girlfriends abandoned their boyfriends, social events dried up faster than shallow wells in dry season.

Tade and co were quite engaged throughout the duration of the exams. Unsurprising to say the the least, Chuks and Toke were a bit adrift, despite the fact that their calender differs from the rest. Chuks decided on this so as not to give any unwanted interpretation of his relationship with Toke. Besides Chinedu, some of his course mates had started giving snide remarks about them. He wanted none of that.

Because of the strike, what supposed to be a month's break was now shortened to three weeks, as the University Management were eager to kick start the new session.

As Tade moved out of his room, he initially wanted to rent an apartment in the town area. Chuks and Made dissuaded him. Also Malik, who had already started working gave his input on the matter.

"Generally, campus is safer" He started. "Most of the cult folks stay in town and they launch attacks on one another there. A few spots in town may be safe but generally town is not too safe. If its itching you that bad, get a place in town and campus. That way you can crash on campus if need be."

Tade finally decided to get another room in Fajuyi and he got the medical floor again ( it was called medical floor because it was strictly used by medical students years back). Of course, he was not the only person as Chuks, Made and Shittu contributed money to stay with him.

His Part One room mates are back!