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...

Nigerian Men Killing Their Wives – Calling A Spade What It Is (Part 2)

A woman who cannot buy even a pant and a bra on her own back home in Nigeria has been brought to America.  She don open eye as my Warri people will say. She has now moved from one extreme state to another – a once innocent lady has now grown wings all of a sudden. A lipstick has now been put on a pig...

Nigerian Men Killing Their Wives – Calling A Spade What It Is Part [I]

What I am about to say here, I know, will annoy so many of our women. Some will like me but some will hate me. Nevertheless, I love our women and therefore, my only intention here is to inform and educate, period...

When Champions Meet The Shining Quads

The Nigerian brilliant Quadruplets, Tayo, Tobi, Tosin, Tolu and their extra-ordinary Mother, Julianah Balogun-Oke, played host to Champions for Nigeria on the 20th September, 2008...

Bread of Life

Everything the mouth nibbles here turns to bread, every meal, snack, or bite has an element of bread. My sad verdict is that man should not live by bread alone even though when I see so many students carrying around sandwiches...

World Igbo Congress: A Jamboree in a Foreign Land

Many Nigerians have criticized the modus operandi of the WIC, and justifiably so, branding it a jamboree and calling for an end to it. I make haste to associate myself with them...

Peregrine – A Journey Begun

A prince, who left home and settled elsewhere. Funny how so many princes always leave home to settle elsewhere. Too much infighting maybe? Or possibly shrinking resources faced with escalating demand - something has to give, and more often than not, it has to be a mortal. Since no one can be immortal except in loving memory...

The Story of Julianah Balogun-Oke, A Champion Mother

Seventeen UK newspapers and five television stations carried the news of one Mrs Julianah Balogun-Oke, a Nigerian single mother in London whose quadruplets had all been admitted to various Ivy League universities in the UK…

The Perfect Treatment

The last two weeks of my life will forever remain the most precious ones to remember for a long time to come. I spent them on the heels of the Netherlands Consulate in search of an MVV- an Authorization of Temporary Residence...

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Garbage Removal Is President Obasanjo's Job!

Why are too many Nigerians uninterested in the push and pull of democracy? Why are many Nigerians not concerned with the call and response of participatory democracy? Why are so many Nigerians infinitely unmoved by the ineffectiveness of state governments and municipal governments or local government authorities?

Will Edo State Education Survive Godwin Obaseki?

In all relevant discussions regarding the development or underdevelopment...

Stealing Is Now Corruption

The immediate past prodigal administration would remain a reference...

Au Nom Du Peuple (Bienvenue 2017!)

Permit me, ladies and gentlemen, to commence this commentary...

Amaechi’s Economic Environment

Rivers State today knows peace, even when people say that corruption is like a sport among the Nigerian political mobsters in public offices and that Nigeria will never know any peace until the right people are voted into office...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Asiwaju of Progress or Manipulation

With the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West the focus in the media and the internet chatter fora has now shifted to the person of the ‘Asiwaju’, ’Bola Tinubu of Lagos.  To some the man awaits canonisation as a saint and to others he attracts vilification...

The Fate Of Nigeria

Why is Nigeria in spite of its endowment in human and material resources continuing to wallow in political turmoil and economic depression?

The House is Mine – Sokoto Governor

“The House was leased from 1999 until 2004, when I completed payment for the house. I bought it from a Sokoto businessman who lived in that house for about thirty years.”

The ODA Is The Justice The Ogoni People Seek

Oil is a curse to the Niger Delta region...

The Russians Are Already In Nigeria! EFCC, SSS, Nigerian Business Men Be On Alert!

According to Transparency International's Bribe Payers Index, Russian businesses are among the quickest to offer bribes in promoting their interests abroad. Russian executives seek out partnership where bribery and corruption are the norm...