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...

Accent War in ‘Jand’

I’ve always been amused by the cultural arrogance which makes Canadians - and their American brothers - assume that there is anyone in this wide planet of ours who speaks English without an accent!

Brave Voice from the Diaspora – Part 2

Brixton that night was turned into hunting zone. Every moving black man was a suspect. Black men were being hunted down like animals. I would soon fall into the hand of my oppressors. I raved and ranted but the police man would have none of it…

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...

In The Name Of The Son

The Igbos have a saying that a woman’s place in her husband’s house is only cemented after the birth of a baby boy. You wonder sometimes the sense in the saying, or belief and the psychological scar it leaves in the hearts of Igbo women...

Ijaw in the Diaspora: Their Hypocrisy is Tiring

There are Ijaw who, publicly, will abuse and attack and criticize government officials; yet, when government officials visit the United States, Canada or the UK, will be first in line genuflecting, running errands...

Britain is Freezing!

Britain is freezing. I waddled through centimetres of ice flakes called snow. A poor African from a sun-bleached background. My consternation is better imagined than described. I raised the alarm, Britain is indeed freezing...

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. ..

An Attitude of Gratitude

To all who continue to pester me with, “What’s your new year’s resolution,” pay close attention...

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A Happy New Year to Nigerians? Not For Me!

The year 2009 is about to come to a permanent close, never to be seen again. Human beings have been in this world since only God knows. Nigeria has been there floundering like a captain-less ship in the sea of the world for the past how many years...

Drug Tests For Nigerian Politicians And Their Aides

In Nigeria, we always ask the question, “Are you...

An Open Letter to my Ijaw Kinsmen and Women

How do these peddlers of secession position the Ijaw with regard to the plight of the black person not only in Nigeria, but on the African continent? If they are only about what we could do with the oil in our backyard, should we not be suspicious of their claims of altruism?

Legend of the Son of a Reverend Father: Odili Tony Ujubuonu

When he writes his novels, he bears the name...

Still On Acho Orabuchi’s Desperate Smeer Campaign on Imo

As one of my friends will say, the greatest affliction is a self-chosen blindness just because it cannot be cured unless the person so afflicted decides to free himself from the type of self denial that visited him with such affliction...

The APC and the War against Corruption

The All Progressives Congress (APC) was formed on 6...

Nkolika: Re-Telling the Story of Women and Their Place in Our Society

A few weeks ago, I was having a discussion...

When Will Nigeria Grow Up?

Recently, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released its rating of what it considered ‘good governance’ in African countries with indexes based on security, legislation, transparency and corruption, human rights, poverty and health, sustainable, economic and human development...

What Do Africans Owe Africa? (Part 2)

In a previous essay, I proposed five steps Africans must take in order to retake and save their continent from squalor, poverty and hopelessness. The primary aim of these essay is to provoke debates about the future of the continent...

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (5)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...