Working Cases

Short Summary.

Nicodemus Onojah is a homicide detective with the newly restructured police department. The restructuring of the Nigerian Police Force using him as the poster boy for reforms pits him against all sorts of enemies, both within and without, who would rather the Police Force remain the same way it had been. 

To keep the reforms, Nicodemus must now have a perfect record, close every case, catch every single killer in his city. And stay alive in the process. 

Does he succeed against the faceless enemies he can never touch? 

Find out in Uchechi Princewill's new series, Working Cases.

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  • Working Cases - Episode 1

  • It isn’t often that a homicide detective comes across a cut-and-dried case. I should know; I’ve been one for eighteen years. And in those eighteen years I’ve seen...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 2

  • “Hey, Nico. You're still alive, I see.” Her voice woke me. I sat up straight to find her smiling down at me. “Nice to see you too, Natalie.” I fo...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 3

  • I have come to realize the people who can get me the answers I need are usually either dead or mentally challenged. Lanre Abidemi, multimillionaire investment banker and mon...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 4

  • Have you ever finally remembered something you forgot earlier, but still have this nagging feeling at the back of your mind that there’s still something else you're forge...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 5

  • Recap: "Someone had killed my father. And tomorrow, tomorrow I would find him.” One day later… I haven’t found the man who killed my father. H...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 6

  • “I have made many enemies in my life, Nicodemus. Sadly, they’re all yours now.”—Senator Abdulraheem Akande, Journal Entry #371. My father&rs...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 7

  • Joseph Thomas was a big man who had been even bigger in his youth. At fifty-four, his rough and shaggy looks, calm demeanor, and wizened eyes, showed a man who had survived a hard ...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 8

  • THREE DAYS LATER… He leaped clear of the hedge and kept running, frantically struggling to lose me in the brush. I kept up the pursuit, pure rage fueling me,...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 9

  • Two weeks later… The department held a wake in her honor. She was given a burial fit for such an excellent detective as she was. The Chief, several police of...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 10

  • The week off was good for us. Gabe was even more messed up than either of us. Natalie was one of the few people who really knew him well. She had died in front of him, and I...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 11

  • The man in the shadows never returned to the hill village. I camped up there alone a few days more. I convinced a few farmers to be on the lookout for him. I searched every ...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 12

  • Black smoke billowed from the docks at four o’ clock in the morning. There were only a few people around at this time; fishermen bringing in their boats from the night trip a...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 13

  • It was all so bloody obvious now that I knew. Duncan had planned it all from the start. He’d set up his own death. No wonder the body was headless! It wasn’t his...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 14

  • The next day… The good news: there was only five hundred kilometers of straight road between the city and the federal court where I would present the case. W...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 15

  • Time: 09:31 AM. 47 hours, 59 minutes till court hearing.  Location: Somewhere in the western forestlands. Status: Lost. And hungry…   ...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 16

  • Things had been going too swimmingly. Sure, we had been hungry most of the past day, and lost, and without much hope, but we had encountered little difficulty. We hadn’t been...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 17

  • Collins stood just behind the tree line. He turned to see Gabe and Nicodemus looking at him. Surviving so far had been difficult, but they had managed knowing sooner or later, luck...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 18

  • "She's ready for you, Nicodemus." the fellow policeman's voice shook me conscious.  I stood, gathering my wits and gave him a tense smile. "Thank...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 19

  • Standing face to face with the man I'd been chasing for what felt like an eternity, time seemed to fade away. The concept of it was foreign to me, all that was I'm my mind ...
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  • Working Cases - Episode 20

  • Three weeks later...  "Nicodemus! Come over here." Amelia's voice rang put across the room full of police officers and government officials. ...
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