Taju Tijani

Tijani lives in London.

Brave Voice from the Diaspora (1)

If I must tell you the truth, an average Nigerian in the Diaspora still nurses this dream of returning back home some day. Why is it so? I think most Nigerians love their country and are passionate for social and economic change but the corruption and leadership emptiness make them stay longer abroad...

Rottweilers, Abati and Subliminal Illiteracy

Today, I am subpoenaing my humble self to the court of public opinion. Such rigid, scrupulous, self-probing and creative scrutiny becomes necessary in order to clarify obfuscation and possibly gag the ad-hominem attacks and tortured ravings of some commentators...

Reuben Abati, Land Grab and the Oath of Omerta

Why is Abati enraging his admirers? In one sentence, Sahara Reporters alleged and screamed that Reuben Abati, the deified priest of our moral grove, is involved in a land heist in Abuja...

Martin Luther King Writes Barack Obama

Here in heaven, we are still celebrating your historic win against all odds. Before and after the election we had prayer vigils for you. And it is astonishing how prayer said in faith could move mountain. A toast to you my dear boy!

Out of Nigeria

Life abroad has given me security of life and limbs. The fear of being wasted by ubiquitous red-eyed monsters we call armed robbers are gone forever. ..

A Christmas Sexual Journey to Lagos

Christmas is a time when many Nigerians abroad go on a carnal carnival to Lagos to recharge exhausted libido. Lagos is becoming a city to relight the fire and not a place for the sexually static...

What Do You Do In London?

It requires a certain amount of honesty and integrity to declare what sort of job you do in London. More so when such job is not among the A-list kind of jobs that command respect and admiration...

A Black British Premier is Hallucinatory Disorder

Barack Obama was lucky. His Luo father made the most profound decision of his life by rejecting Britain for America. By now, Obama would have been a mere London inner city duff solicitor on a nine to fiver with fading jackets, worn out shoes, hire purchase BMW and a mortgaged three-bed house...

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