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...

Requiem For A Compatriot And The Sorrows Of Being A Nigerian: Akinyemi Akinpelu (1971 – 2005)

This piece would serve its aim if it succeeds in enlightening our brothers and sisters who are desperately trying to sneak out of the hell-hole called Nigeria...

Going Through the Immigration Process to Bring Your Nigerian Husband to America (Part II)

The immigration process is not for the “light of heart”, for it takes endurance, trust, faith in your spouse, and a thick shell to ward off the doubtful darts of others who deem you foolish for waiting for such a long period of time or marrying a foreigner in the first place...

Makwerekwere: Black South Africa’s Instant-Mix Kaffirs?

“Oh, I love your accent. It’s awesome. Where is that from?”
“Nigeria.”
“Nigeria? You mean Nicaragua?”

Going to Meet Black America

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't blend. They caught a whiff of the continent the moment they saw me, even before my accent gave things away. Everywhere we went I was moved by the brotherhood and fellowship that was extended to me in the middle of so much poverty...

Going to Meet Black America (2)

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't blend. They caught a whiff of the continent the moment they saw me, even before my accent gave things away. Everywhere we went I was moved by the brotherhood and fellowship that was extended to me in the middle of so much poverty...

Re-Igniting: Saturday Night Out Conversations

You may never know where you’re headed, but you can certainly cling to your dreams. Reality can be depressing and depression is not for happy people. The right size ego coupled with the right amount of self importance is all one needs to bring everything into perspective...

A Day in Life

I dash to the kitchen. Too late, the soup’s turned into a thick dark paste. That will be the second in three weeks! So much waste in one day...

Moving to Nigeria: What to know and do (Part 2)

Some have taken the view that moving to Nigeria is for those who have acquired a lot of money from abroad and can afford to splash out...

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Forensic Audit: A Test of Buhari’s Integrity

The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war...

Trading Imo state for perilous politics

A question I frequently hear these days is: What happens if there is failure of election in Imo State? Worse yet, I also hear described various scenarios that can happen should there be failure of election...

Why Romantic Love Confuses Me

If “romantic” love is true and real, shouldn’t you be in love with him regardless of how he has treated you? Should it matter if he doesn’t love you anymore?

What did Amaechi do to Akpabio?

It is very sad how petty Akpabio has become with the NGF election result...

David-West: From Virology To Writing

From what David-West has been writing, it is no news that it didn’t take him sixty years to discover that he had a talent for writing and could not give it up...

Critics, Commentators, and Gadflies

I do what I do on this and other sites only as a leisure pursuit. But considering what I have gone through in the last couple of months, and more so in the last couple of days, I have come to have greater respect and admiration for writers, critics, gadflies, and social commentators...

From The Pen of a Foreign Mate…

I am baffled by the constant dialogue among Nigerians in America about “foreign women” who reject Nigeria.  Many Nigerian-American men and their families have cast American women as snobbish of third-world living and disdainful of Nigeria...

Goodluck, his Ambition, the Electoral Process and Nigeria

With the death of President Musa Yar'Adua and the bitter altercations that attended his last days way behind us, there is every need to remind President Goodluck Jonathan that Nigeria is a work begging for urgent attention...

Ese Oruru’s Mirror

I received a plaintive note last week from a...