Life Abroad

Peter Obi, The Nigerian Diaspora, And Propaganda

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Bleeding Heart: Bahamas

When I visit the West Indies or the Island Nations of the Caribbean, I meet people who are clearly my long-lost cousins, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and all other members of my extended African family of yesteryears...

Between A Future Presidency And The Reconciliation Of The Eastern People

With the emergence of a Nigerian president of Ijaw extraction and his political ambition, the Igbo and their input, I suggest, should be guided by the burden of history...

Taking Society For Granted!

Whenever a section of the society wants to embark...

Osuofia In London: A Philosophical Perspective

There is a danger to argue that the message of a movie does not really matter if the movie is a fiction. True fiction is based on some reality. The fictional comedy “Osuofia in London” is unpatriotic to Africa...

Ekpoma-Benin-Auchi Road Failure Shame on Edo Politicians

Dictionary definition of hell is that it a place...

The (Un)Marked Presidential Graves

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Biafra, the Ostrich Mentality and Nigeria’s Tragedy

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address the sore of the Biafran War is the chief reason no nation has been able to materialize out of the space called Nigeria...

World Cup: Folly Of Relying On Goodluck

I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character.  However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football and the best we get is unnecessary heart attack...

The Knife Angel

There was a time in the UK when knife...

Plight Of Foreign Attorneys In America

What is the essence of licensing Foreign Attorneys only to turn around and deny them the opportunity of proving their worth? It is a shame to have a law license and end up being a security officer or a Certified Nursing Assistant...