Life Abroad

Peter Obi, The Nigerian Diaspora, And Propaganda

At the risk of sounding pessimistic, one could argue profoundly that Nigeria’s contemporary political atmosphere carries a systemic, tragic potential. This vulnerability is directly...

Japa Is Not In My Constitution

A lot of wannabes want to flee from Nigeria, but I am very different. The country turns me up and down anyhow such that one...

The Race To Expand Financial Access for Nigerians in Diaspora

In the race to build a secure, efficient and inclusive financial ecosystem for Nigerians globally, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with...

I am Back In Nigeria

You see, I have been cheated and taken advantage of so many times by taxi drivers, market women and by my neighbors so many times that it is no longer fun being a novice, a Johnny Just Come...

Insider, Outsider: A Meditation on life in America

Life can be unkind here, sometimes. So it is everywhere else in the world, you may say. But in America, it is especially. We come here, compared to other places, dreaming of possibility. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…,” the statue of liberty, beckons.    Then we face reality...

The 21st Century Scholar

The illiterate of the 21st century, in the words of the American writer Alvin Toffler, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn...

Where Are Black British Millionaires?

Intellectual and business routes to fame and fortune are no longer popular among black kids. They all want to be footballers and live an outlandishly, illiterate lifestyle of Ferrari, white girls, mansions, champagne, drugs, all, mortal destroyers of black man’s wealth in the West...

Why Must Nigerians Abroad Vote?

I feel quite disappointed that supposedly better enlightened and informed Nigerians abroad see the issue of making provisions for Nigerians abroad to vote as a key issue they should be clamouring for or celebrating...

Diasporic Nigerians, 2011, and the Measure of Seriousness

I am personally offended and embarrassed. The international community has no business taking a country seriously whose presidential field can be approached like a guguru and epa stall in Oshodi...

The Other Side of Reverse Migration

Nigerians living in the diaspora still contemplating the return journey back home are best advised to familiarise themselves with some of the challenges they may face when they return, so that they can at least be better prepared.

The Cable Thief

One day, late January, I came home and noticed my front door was unlocked. Another day, mid-February, I came home from work and noticed my back door was unlocked. A week later, I woke up in the middle of the night.  I thought I heard someone in the house...

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Modest Proposals on Corruption

Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on...

Who kidnapped Lota Ezeudu?

On the evening of September 26, 2009, Bona Ezeudu and his wife, Ngozi, found themselves enveloped by a terrible fog that has yet to lift. The couple’s nightmare came by way of the startling discovery that their only son had been kidnapped...

What Do Women Really Want?

Marriage in the U.K is an interesting study in women’s perfidy. Even where the family is content by the man’s standard, the woman is not. She wants to be seen to be in control. She begins to manoeuvre and manipulate like the snake in the garden of Eden...

Ogboru’s Lincoln Argument and Otive Igbuzor

It’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times but in each case failed to get it right in the end, it is no wonder that tongues are now wagging...

What Does It Mean to Humble Oneself?

Why does the matter of making penance, confessing one's mistakes, or admitting one's wrongdoing come into play in religious circles when one truly seeks to humble oneself?

Going Brrrrrrh on the Creative Side of Advertising

In present times, advertising via whatever means, has gone highly cerebral while scintillatingly appealing to all the senses of already captured or potential customers...

If Not IPOB, Who’s Enforcing Ghost Monday?

Following the Nigerian government’s unexpected extradition of Mazi Nnamdi...

As The Nigerian Oil Sector Rots In Induced Quagmire

Come to think of it, as at the time I wrote, the House of Representatives Committee headed by Farouk Lawan  established the payment of a hefty N3 trillion as phantom subsidy to sundry crooks and felons; all of whom enjoyed unimpeded favour with and access to the presidency...

Any Hope for a Black British Prime Minister?

It is easy to imagine the discomfort suffered by many in Britain following Barack Obama’s historic victory who had to endure a debate in the national media, about the prospects of such a replication in Britain...

The ‘E’ in Religion

I recently have begun to think that we need to displace God in our understanding and analysis of religion. Ordinarily, this might seem blasphemous at first glance...