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...

'Di Na Nwunye Obodo Oyibo'

From Paris, France, in 2005 I remember calling my mother in Nigeria and informing her that I had found a 'wife', a white French lady I was in love with then. My mother reacted surprisingly negatively...

Yorùbá Girl Lost

I am a Yorùbá Girl Lost.  My parents taught me neither the culture nor language.  I was partially responsible for losing the language, because at age six, I decided that I was not going to speak it.  The culture was lost when I was transposed into a foreign, non- Yorùbá environment...

Where is Nigerian Airways?

"The truth of the case is that the aircraft scheduled to take you to Lagos developed an engine problem..."

Disconnected From the Motherland

When I told African Americans who were my friends and co-workers, that I was engaged to my then fiancé, some of the first things they asked me is “Is he ugly, for you know those Africans are ugly?”

The Immigration Process: Bringing Your Nigerian Husband To America

I want you to understand that if you have not met your Nigerian fiancé in person, DO NOT waste your time and money… you will be denied.

The Dignity of Man

Our man the diplomat in London lounged at Owoh and narrowly missed Anne and Bukky, our co-protesters...Our High Commission had invited the cops to arrest us. One of us was not so lucky...

Osamuyia Aikpitanhi: Matters Arising

Does it really matter much whatever the late Osamuyia had done to warrant such violent eviction from the Spanish space?

Feedback And Comments To “The Illusions And Delusions Of Nigerians In Diaspora” – Author’s Reply

I do not often find myself defending any article that I write, but following the feedback and many comments that I have received after writing the article “The Illusions and Delusions of Nigerians In Diaspora”, I felt constrained to make a few further comments...

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IBB And The 2015 Igbo Presidency Gamble

Few weeks ago, some prominent Igbo leaders were locked out of the Concorde Hotel in Owerri where they were supposed to meet. According to the news report they had paid in advance for the hotel facility only to be told by gun-totting law enforcement agents that they had "orders from above" to stop the meeting...

Laying the theoretical and practical foundations for a new world economic order

We need profound scientific thinkers who will not violate the people's trust. We do not need thugs in political office, who are afflicted by Mormonism. There are faithful, God-fearing citizens, who pray for national resurgence...

Disgrace Of The Beret

There is so much panic among the people whenever there is a perception that the state cannot provide adequate security for its citizenry. This has resulted in every community developing a means of providing security...

Isaiah Osagiede: An Ode To The Honest And Sacrificial Abuja Cabman

There are still honorable and truthful Nigerians whose inner configurations are knitted with truth and their hearts are ruled by a sense of justice and fairness...

Where is Nigerian Airways?

"The truth of the case is that the aircraft scheduled to take you to Lagos developed an engine problem..."

In Those Days…

In those days, when an undergraduate walked the streets, everybody rallied round him; the elders thronged him for the ever-involving intellectual debates and news about the latest discoveries, while the children flocked about him to listen to fables from 'I don't know where'…

Prosperity, Eternity (5): How are we laying Treasures?

Those earnestly and readily distributing and communicating are laying up in store for themselves good foundations against the time to come; that they might lay hold on eternal life...

Old Economic Voodooists’ Prescriptions in New Wine Skin

Here we go again, re-packaging, re-branding, renovating failed economic...

The Misappropriation of Yoruba Cultural Heritage

When a rich community with a rich culture begins...

Legitimacy of governance, succession, policing, in Nigerian politics: a way of life

A situation where you see police officers used as private escort for wealthy individuals including expatriates is befuddling. The hustling mentality, the lack of self-esteem by officers and rank, including poor pay structure will forever produce a corrupt and mediocre police system...