Author | Solahudeen Ridwanullah O.

Author: Solahudeen Ridwanullah O.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY Solahudeen Ridwanullah O. is a Muslim teenage writer. He has swelling passion for creative writings. He has participated in many literary contests of various associations such as Muslim students' society of Nigeria (MSSN), the Association of Model Islamic Schools(AMIS) and many more; he made historic and enviable feats. Ridwanullah is the winner of the online Creative Writing Contest organized by STARSUSEFUL, award won by his work TORNADO YEARS AND WITHOUT DESPAIRâ€“poetry and short story respectively. He is a secondary school leaver and he currently lives in Ifon-Osun, Osun state, Nigeria, where he works.

Poetry

THIS FRIEND

22,June,2021 by Solahudeen Ridwanullah O.

This friend is a worm

He feeds on hosts

Made of woven lines

This friend is a sun

He indiscriminately shines

On every seed

Buried under the shallow earth

This friend is Rome

It took many labourers

Many blood-draining-days to build

This friend is a world

He stomached many nations

A father of many languages

And many colours

This friend is bigger

Than I can paint in letters

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COVID-19 OUTBREAK AND THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY: EFFECTS, CHALLLENGES AND PROSPECTS by SOLAHUDEEN RIDWANULLAH O.

14,January,2021 by Solahudeen Ridwanullah O.

It is among the tests of leadership, the ability to recognize a problem before it changes to an emergency as nonchalance and procrastination complicate qualms.The youth on daily basis never waver to voice out on the social media and other platforms, the need to facilitate advancement in every sectors of our livelihood. Prior to the outbreak of this pandemic, some perspicacious and patriotic Nigerian leaders and the erudites among citizens have claimed to be eagles, been keen eyed enough to forsee tribulations abounding from, then, unknown sources to strike the country. Thus, a proactive measure rather than astute decisions was sought for. Who knows where the curse would hail from? Who, by then, knows how catastrophic and disastrous it could be? Truth must not be cocooned, for Nigeria, prevention is better than cure, like all other underdeveloped or developing states. This is because, since the inception of this triggering and fear inciting pandemic,...

EATERS OF DUST

19,December,2020 by Solahudeen Ridwanullah O.

Earlier like a bird
I rose up from my nest
This morning
Just like decades ago, yesterday, so be today,
but tomorrow,
Perhaps, might changed.

Don't bother lighting the candle
We're the eaters of dust you used to know
Our life is the pairs of tattered jeans,
Smoked engines, dumped outputs
From the outlaw's land

Tour around our streets
Our road is the back of the tortoise
Said to have fallen and crashed from the towering sky
In the aged book of fiction
Where ambush lies every peaceful second.

Do I need to tell
Who the healthy ones are?
Since fresh blood runs in their vein
A bank of refined H2O in their bugging pot bellies
But cholera rumbles our own tummy.

Since the world is made of streets and oceans
The butterflies among us
Do fly to other streets
The swimmers crawl through t...