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...

An Attitude of Gratitude

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

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...

Going To Die In Nigeria

Mrs Chukwu was arrested by the police and immigration officials for working illegally in the UK. It was discovered that Mr and Mrs Chukwu came to the UK on a six month visa that had expired...

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...

Bury Me Anywhere But Nigeria

Before asking for the heads of Nigerians working abroad that dread returning home please take the courage to inculcate some decorum in the Nigerian police force, repair the death traps called roads, and advise the rogues called politicians to grow up...

Coming to America

Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion.  Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and doing things - but the ones that refuse to listen and claim to be I-Too-Know in all things American - those ones are just plain annoying...

Coming to America (2)

Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion.  Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and doing things - but the ones that refuse to listen and claim to be I-Too-Know in all things American - those ones are just plain annoying...

Welcome to Germany?

Some Nigerians who travelled to Europe in the hope of greener pastures are stuck there because the castles they built in the air have come crashing down on them...

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Beyond The Armed Forces Remembrance Day Parade

It does appear to me that Nigerians are yet...

Rejoinder: The North’s Greatest Tennis Ambassador – Sadiq Abdullahi!

For almost 20 years, I have observed events unfold in Nigeria without any means of influencing what goes on there. Today, the story is being rewritten...

Buhari is not a Nigerian!

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is not a "Nigerian."...

Does Little Miss Precious Trust Me?

I once heard in the mouth of a trusted friend that "expectation is the mother of all disappointments" and the lesson sank in well for I had reneged on an earlier promise I had made...

Fighting Terrorism with Rhetorics

At the Eagle Square, Abuja, where he formally declared...

Why are Customs People this Wealthy and Healthy?

On the 7th day of May, 2024, I visited...

C.I.D. Maduabum: At the Engine-room of PDP Revival

It takes enormous hard work behind the scenes for...

NYSC@50 – NYSC And National Crisis

The recent nationwide upsurge in ethnic militia nationalism or...

Nigerians are also Dying from Prescription Medications

Africa is besieged with numerous unexplained deaths. Many could rightly be attributed to the consequences of poverty and dearth of a well organised and non-epileptic healthcare and social infrastructures. The reality is that we also have our own deaths from medications...

Let us reform or disband this NTA

NTA is an open wound that hurts millions of Nigerians within and beyond the shores of Nigeria and it needs urgent healing; there is no other way of saying it, this NTA as it stands today needs to be either thoroughly reformed or completely disbanded...