Life Abroad

I love my country, I love Nigeria. But regrettably, love, nationalism and patriotism are not enough. It is not defeat, but pragmatism and common sense…

I was working in a nursing home when a male nurse, also a fellow Igbo, displayed understandable excitement at meeting another Igbo on the job.  He proceeded to playfully hug …

From Paris, France, in 2005 I remember calling my mother in Nigeria and informing her that I had found a ‘wife’, a white French lady I was in love with …

I am a Yorùbá Girl Lost.  My parents taught me neither the culture nor language.  I was partially responsible for losing the language, because at age six, I decided that …

“The truth of the case is that the aircraft scheduled to take you to Lagos developed an engine problem…”

When I told African Americans who were my friends and co-workers, that I was engaged to my then fiancé, some of the first things they asked me is “Is he …

I want you to understand that if you have not met your Nigerian fiancé in person, DO NOT waste your time and money… you will be denied.

Our man the diplomat in London lounged at Owoh and narrowly missed Anne and Bukky, our co-protesters…Our High Commission had invited the cops to arrest us. One of us was …

Does it really matter much whatever the late Osamuyia had done to warrant such violent eviction from the Spanish space?

I do not often find myself defending any article that I write, but following the feedback and many comments that I have received after writing the article “The Illusions and …

The recent murder of a Nigerian young man Mr Osamuyia Aikpitanhi by the Spanish officials has continued to generate justifiable opprobrium, especially from the large Nigerian Diaspora community…

After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development …

After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development …

The visa process has been turned into a money spinner and a big scam to the detriment of poor Nigerians at the British High Commission…

Please don’t mind me: I am a new arrival, a JJC to Nigeria after almost three decades in Yankee. Since my arrival, I tend to get things wrong…

My uncle was in the UK for a visit and was stunned to realise that he had to pass through the kitchen to get into the toilet. He wondered if …