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...

American Diary: My Meeting With President Umaru Musa Yar’adua

Ikhide, this is important, please act like a big man when you meet the President, behave yourself, don’t say stupid things like “Why are you sitting on a stolen mandate, Mr. President?” you know how you get when your tongue escapes your mouth!

Very Scary State Of Affairs

Duane you have to stop this. I am not your girlfriend, I can't go out with you, and I am not even sure we are friends...

White Out

When you live among people that have not had a lot of exposure to black people, you start to notice things you normally would not notice in a bigger city.  The most evident is that now I know for sure that although not all white people are racist, about 70% of them are prejudiced...

Is Black Really Beautiful?

Nigeria and Africa in all their poverty are really just a heartbeat away from the ancestral and cultural poverty that Black America suffers.  Are we allowing our Black youths to be groomed to believe that “black is not beautiful?” 

An Inventory Nine Years in the Making

On my first day back home in Nigeria, I kept my emotions in check as I hugged my father.  He had lost weight and most of his bulk.  It was hard to look a man in the face when you used to look up at him...

The Significance Of All Saints Igbo Language Anglican Church In DC

It was a very important day in the history of Ndigbo in DC area with the formal inauguration of All Igbo Anglican Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington on Sunday September 16th, 2007...

Iri Ji Festival Awaken Ndigbo in London

The reawakening of Ndigbo cultural consciousness received a boost recently with the grand celebration of the New Yam Festival in London...

I Don’t Care What You Say, I Am Not A Nigerian

Indians, Thais, Pakistanis, Americans, carry their countries in their hearts every where they travel to but alas most Nigerians drop them at MM airport before boarding the Boeing 747 across the Atlantic...

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Climate Change: time to change tactics and themes

The sad reality of our common existence on a common platform makes it imperative to use the right terms, if only so that everyone really understands what is happening. That sad reality is that climate change is here...

End of the Ibori-Uduaghan siege in sight

Nigerians may not easily comprehend the theatre of absurdity that has been Delta State these past eleven years...

Kissingerian realpolitik and Yewa Hubris

The irrational ignorance and political flaccidity of the Yewarists have put them on a democratic cross road of uncertainty. Yes, they may puff and huff, kiss and gnash their teeth at my sweeping observation, but the political interpretation of their preparedness cannot be more apt...

Spotlight on Dr. Dawari’s Reign as Commissioner for Energy Natural Resources

As commissioner, Rivers State, he made plans and developed a master plan for the state, which will enable the government to utilize gas for both domestic and industrial activities. His reign as Commissioner introduced a legislation that will enable intervention directly in the oil and gas sector...

Vice President Orji Kalu Angling for Second Class Citizenship?

It is now becoming clear that Orji Kalu has engaged in grandstanding loud-talk just to leverage himself into a vice presidential candidate position....

When ‘development’ is not enough…

The April 2015 elections are just around the corner....

Federal Government Cheating States with Deregulation

Nigeria may not get it right with a perfidious system. Somebody would say that change is one thing that remains permanent. Yes, but only when it is positive and does not habour underhanded tendencies, such as the country is experiencing through deregulation...

For Nigeria; What Have You to Contribute?

If someone were to ask what the most crippling problem of Nigeria is, we will not have a moment’s hesitation in deciding that it is infidelity and irresponsibility to the affairs of the nation...

The Atiku Conundrum

That Mr Atiku Abubakar resigned from the APC a...

James Ibori: Nigerians’ Collective Shame

As I watched the end of James Ibori’s money laundering trial in London, UK, I knew that Nigerians could only manage a constricted sigh of relief. Yes, Ibori was headed for prison – 13 years...