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...

The Worth of the Life of a Nigerian

The recent murder of a Nigerian young man Mr Osamuyia Aikpitanhi by the Spanish officials has continued to generate justifiable opprobrium, especially from the large Nigerian Diaspora community...

Reverse Migration: Time To Go Home

After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development for our beloved country...

Reverse Migration: Time To Go Home

After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development for our beloved country...

How the British High Commission Scams Nigerians

The visa process has been turned into a money spinner and a big scam to the detriment of poor Nigerians at the British High Commission...

JJC to Nigeria: Questions from New Arrivals like Me

Please don’t mind me: I am a new arrival, a JJC to Nigeria after almost three decades in Yankee. Since my arrival, I tend to get things wrong...

British Terrace Houses: ‘Nigerians A Step Ahead’

My uncle was in the UK for a visit and was stunned to realise that he had to pass through the kitchen to get into the toilet. He wondered if this is the so-called British civilisation where there is a thin wall between where you upload and offload...

The Illusions And Delusions Of Nigerians In The Diaspora

Most of these organisations purportedly representing Nigerians in Diaspora are no more than paid town-criers and propagandists for certain politicians in Nigeria. They have been paid to make as much noise as they can to advance the prospects of their paymasters...

Why Not Take Your Wife To Nigeria, Instead Of Polluting Our Country?

When it was my turn, the lady collected my passport, took one bewildered look at it and asked me to report to one Mr. Wanda on the seventh floor. I stood on the spot for seconds frowning...

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Defining Achievement, Performance and Humility of Nigeria’s Political Class

I am personally of the belief that contemporary challenges of development in Nigeria demand a critical and deliberate re-invention of the philosophy of governance and political leadership which must reflect a profound understanding of the very great tasks ahead of us as a nation and as a people...

APC Leaders need to apologise to their Voters

Lest we become guilty of what we accuse others...

In Defense Of The Critic

I rather feel that Paul Adujie hasn’t really been receiving a fair treatment, because some of the attacks on him have been malicious, as if calculated to run the brother out of cyberspace. I do feel for the man. It’s as if all the anger and frustration with some of our corrupt leaders are being taken out on him anytime he pens an essay...

From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: An Ignominious End for Africa’s Mugabes?

Not knowing how to quit the stage when the...

Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63

The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new...

Ohakim And The Council Election Flaw!

It would sound like cliché to be told that local governments are the foundation of democracy, but for Imo State, the truth appears to remain eroded through frequent electoral procrastination...

Writers Are Licensed To Kill

Writers can kill. The creative writer plays God by creating...

The New Hierarchy Of Needs

Slums in Nigeria are usually identified with poverty and underemployment. Some have described a slum as an over crowded district of a community usually inhabited by poor people...

Nigeria and China: The $23 Billion sunshine deal

China is a big player in Africa and Nigeria in particular especially in oil and gas industry. China has a history of trying to consolidate the deal to refurbish Nigerian refineries...

Birthday Boy

18 years after betraying a childhood love, here I am struck by the sudden appearance of my bank’s Client Relation Officer who bears every semblance of Yemi, my heartbroken first love...