Life Abroad

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...

‘Lade Hephzibah Olugbemi Emerges Councilor in West Thamesmead in the UK

A Nigerian woman 'Lade Hephzibah Olugbemi has won the election to become councillor for the West Thamesmead ward in the Royal Greenwich Borough of...

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...

Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigeria's Worst Enemies?

Rather than making sweeping remarks at Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigerian leaders should demonstrate genuine love for our land and our people by talking less and acting more in making life worth living for Nigerians...

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America Means Well For Nigeria; Oh Really?

America has clearly set out to undermine Nigeria, to create instability and disintegration! Despite the adamant insistence by some Nigerians that the current American federal government means well for Nigeria and Nigerians, it is becoming crystal clear that the quick succession of negative events perpetrated and orchestrated at the behest of America are geared toward producing negative consequences...

Gov. Oshiomhole’s Woman, go and die and Narrow-minded Religionists

The religions in the country do not make some people to see things beyond their already programmed minds or, as a friend would put it, Zapped minds...

The United Nations: Restatement Of Purpose

I disagree with some Western International lawyers who argue that international law was unknown to Africans until their independence in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

Further discussions on the Future of Africa (4)

Positive reactions to the outcome of the International Seminar on the Future of Africa and the New World Economic Order are overwhelming...

Gov. T.A. Orji Insults ex-Gov. Mbakwe

Many Nigerians know today that the Gov. Theodor Ahamefule Orji administration in Abia State is an expert in telling lies and in the use of propaganda to discredit opposing views...

State Police Vs the Rest of Us

The recent ‘abduction’ or otherwise of Madu Onuorah, the...

Black Women and White Men and the Question of Marriage (2)

It is unlikely anyone knows for sure the number of successful or promising Black men who are dating, or are married to White women. All we know is that the number is large; we also know that in some communities, dating or being married to a White woman is considered desirable...

How UNICEF, WORLD Bank Became WAEC & NECO in Edo

There are two well-known local examination bodies in place...

Keeping Pace with Soludo All Over Anambra State

It is well-nigh impossible keeping pace with the man...

Hunger, Political Loyalty and Street Reality (2)

Nigeria’s 2026 statistical profile is threatening: a 3.8% GDP...