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At the risk of sounding pessimistic, one could argue profoundly that Nigeria’s contemporary political atmosphere carries a systemic, tragic potential. This vulnerability is directly...
In the race to build a secure, efficient and inclusive financial ecosystem for Nigerians globally, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with...
I was working in a nursing home when a male nurse, also a fellow Igbo, displayed understandable excitement at meeting another Igbo on the job.He proceeded to playfully hug me but I froze and did not return the hug.That was the first time I knew I had acquired a Personal Space...
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...
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...
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?”
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...
I have watched the jingles about Poland being propagated on CNN, as if Polish prosperity only took place after the Solidarity Movement impacted on Poland. The truth is that if the Soviet Union did not have a socialist state organization that defeated Hitler, Warsaw would not have seen war and survived...
There are punishments better than death. Death takes only a few seconds to initiate. Long prison sentences, naming and shaming and hard labour in prison will always be effective deterrent against corruption. Can you imagine Bode George, Tafa Balogun (and even the yet-to-be-convicted James Ibori) with cutlasses, spades and shovels working on a building site or cutting down trees on state farms under the hot sun and watchful eyes of brutal warders?
Nigeria has not won an international senior trophy for 16 years. That should tell you that Nigeria is not a very good football team despite what its people think...
Tensions between “Akatas” and Africans in this country have worsened since the upsurge of African immigration here in the ‘80s, but were always there.And they remain tense, in some circles.Why?
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