Patrick Okigbo

Patrick Okigbo III lives in Georgia. A graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he played an active role in the Students' Union Government. Before coming to the USA, he worked as copywriter, banker, and strategy consultant. A soccer, poetry and photography buff, Okigbo has also co-founded or supported non-governmental organizations encouraging entrepreneurial development and instilling professional values in corporate Nigeria. He is currently studying for an MBA from Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta.

A Rejoinder To NewYork Times’ “Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beating in Africa”

By not exercising caution in your choice of stories and captions, you do your profession, the New York Times and the great majority of Americans who are ignorant of life outside the United States, a great disservice...

Giant Of Africa, My Foot

Before you pass judgment on me, let me quickly add that I have not given up on Nigeria, but I think it is time we woke up from this slumber to realize that we are sliding deeper and deeper into this abyss...

Waiting For The Messiah!

Having been denied true leadership in recent times, many Nigerians will not be able to recognize one if they saw it. Any critical analysis of successive civilian and military Nigerian governments will show that we have not been lucky...

Of Fuel Cell and Selling Nigeria's Fuel

In the face of the deadlock in the Middle East, it has become clear to everyone in Washington that unless the US found an alternative to Oil, it would be stuck in the Middle East for a long time...

We Shall Overcome… Someday!

I have been to the mountaintops. I have seen my hope and I have refused to let go...

A Raped Generation

Nigerian children are initiated into the cult of ethnic and religious bigotry as soon as they are born...

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