Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Please, do not ask me about religion. I get the evil look every time I tell people I am an agnostic who teeters on atheism. My world resolves around ethics and the rule of law. That’s it. I have no use for religion: religious convictions are not part of my existence -- the laws of man are good enough for me. I have lived in several cities: Seattle, Miami, Norman, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Saint Cloud, the District of Columbia, Houston, and Mankato. I am not sure where I am going to live next. And I have never really had a profession, only jobs: been a cook, a dishwasher, a civil servant, house cleaner, university instructor and researcher and so on and so forth. Every so often I get questions concerning the role and place of the African woman. Well, I don’t know; at least not with any certainty. What seems to work best is when both partners work as a team: cooperate, coordinate and collaborate their marital efforts. And they should be mindful of the insidious effect of modernization on the African family.

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

Americans treat their dogs and cats better than the Nigerian government treat her people. In Nigeria, the vast majority of people do not have access to well-balanced meal, to the courts, to health and life insurance, and to medical care. Most have never been to the dentist. Never! Dogs and cats in the US have it made; while Nigerians have a life made in hell...

Africans and the White House: Friends, Partners or Fools

When a typical African Head of State or Head of Government come to the US, a low-level officer from the State Department receives him or her. The White House doesn’t even consider African countries partners. We do not fall within America’s strategic interest...

Green Card and Other Realities

I have no qualms offending God. I really don’t; but to offend the tax office, the police, or the immigration folks? Please don’t! That would be suicidal. No matter what you do, please be honest with those folks. Otherwise, they will turn your life upside down. They will make your life a living hell...

The President’s Daughter?

She tells me she likes me. That she loves me. That I make her laugh. She likes it when I sponge and towel her. She tells me I reside in her soul, that she dream of me at night and daydream about me in her waking moments. I send her roses...

Alamieyeseigha, Asari-Dokubo and the Ijaw Narrative

Alamieyeseigha dug the hole he currently finds himself in. The perception, whether real or not, is that he misappropriated funds. That he abused his power. That he engaged in all manner of illegalities to the detriment of the well being of the Ijaw nation. The Diaspora Ijaws are even taken aback by his supposed excesses and gluttony...

Governor Alamieyeseigha and His Wahala

Ha, Alamieyeseigha’s wahala, if guilty, must not become Ijaw’ wahala; for this man has set us the Ijaws back two decades in terms of growth and development. He was already a disgrace and a monumental failure long before this alleged money laundering story anyway...

Alamieyeseigha, Justice and the People

Alamieyeseigha and his boys stole and stole and stole and stole and stole some more as though stealing in anticipation of their great-grand-great children. Haba, what greed can do! DSP and his arrogant friends were not only greedy; they were addicted to stealing and misappropriating the people’s money...

Is Obasanjo The Most Distinguished Egba Son?

General Obasanjo left office in 1979, not “voluntarily,” but at the nudging of the “Northern Power House.” They had just lost one of their own and they wanted back in power. So, they encouraged him to leave in order to “fulfill the promise” made by the late General Murtala Mohammed to hand over power to elected civilians in 1979...

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