To crucify Oluchi or Agbani Darego – ladies who are simply trying to make a living – for looking the way they do or the way their creator created them …
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Life Abroad
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Simply put, Folasayo doesn’t think much of men. Left to her whim and imagination, at least 90% of men would be thrown off the cliff. Or decapitated. Or have their …
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“Rosie, my dear, I just want you to settle down. All your younger cousins are married; your little sister Patricia just did her igba-nkwu. What worries me is that you …
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Why is it that in spite of the workaholic nature of the British society, Nigerians of all shades and callings are always ready to bear all sorts of indignity to …
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In popular parlance, the assumption is that White women are easy to talk to, easy to date, easy to have any sort of relationship with. And that in all matter …
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It arrived, two whole mortars of goat head, comprising mainly bones. Conversations ceased momentarily as we got ready to settle down to business. Chuks however objected. “How can we eat …
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Every second spent is one second that cannot be recovered. A life spent whining, criticizing and complaining is one life spent one level short of its full potential…
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What is it about white chics that lure successful brothers away, so much so as to make them forget about all the bootylicious endowments and soul food skills of our black …
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How do you tell your mother and father that you met your wife or husband through an Internet dating site? I won’t even bother to imagine the look on their …
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Immigrants are so often deprived, in the most intangible and unquantifiable way. I have missed out on opportunities, sundry opportunities, to participate in my family’s happiest moments…
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In spite of the very public war being waged by Nuhu Ribadu and the EFCC, elements of the Nigerian government still don’t get the message. Out there in the Departure …
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What if I told you to stop spending at Wal Mart? K-Mart? Kroger? Ralph’s? Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Prada, Banana Republic, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, AX? Could you do it? Am I crazy?
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The Babalola family has been thrown into anguish and sorrow over their son Tunde, who has been missing since Monday June 19th 2006…
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Since I have been living abroad, one of the things I look forward to every year is my annual summer holidays in Nigeria. A time normally reserved for me and …
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Aduro is the name Nigerians call themselves, especially those living in Germany’s many Asyl Heims or aduro houses. We never really got to find out the meaning and origin of …
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Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God’s own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And …