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...

Nigerian Immigrants

Many a doctor has been seen doing janitorial work. I have seen accountants of yore driving cabs. The more perplexing are even those who went to school in the US but have not found useful employment or are under-employed. I once went to court with a lawyer, who after the court session, took off his lawyer suits to go to his regular job that did not need a suit...

African Diasporas And The Relocation Challenge

Africans in the diaspora are expected to spearhead the continent’s renaissance and come back home to invest their skills and resources in the development of the continent...

Nigeria is Beautiful to me

When I told my relatives about my engagement to a Nigerian man, whom I had never met, who lived over 5,000 miles from me, they started telling me, in detail, many horror stories about woman flying to met men who presented themselves to be one thing and turned out to be another...

London Marathon

I ran for ages and got very angry at the first sign. One mile. Only? With all this sweat and thirst? 25 miles to go. God help us…

London Marathon

I ran for ages and got very angry at the first sign. One mile. Only? With all this sweat and thirst? 25 miles to go. God help us…

A Man’s Response to “What Does It Mean To Be a Nigerian Woman in America?”

There is the tendency amongst some Africans to think that African culture is backward and primitive and all that...

What Does It Mean To Be a Nigerian Woman in America?

I'm still single, which is baffling to me because I'm actually a really pretty woman, very nurturing, respectful, and considerate. My family says its because I'm not Nigerian enough...

Tricks Of The Trade!

Somewhere on the other side of Alligator Alley, a Dodge Dealership had Minivans for sale at a "too good to be true" price. There was no time to waste! I grabbed my checkbook and ordered everyone to get in the car...

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Echoes From The Jungle

Somewhere in Oyo State, there is a man called Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, who lives, speaks and acts as if there are no laws in Nigeria, and enjoys hearing himself being referred to as "the Strongman of Ibadan Politics." From what is regularly reported about this man, and the comments credited to him in the media, he should either be in jail now or facing trial in a properly constituted court...

Calculating Nigeria's Correct GDP

To an indolent mind, sexing data to pump up GDP figures is an example of how politicians lie with statistics. But a critical mind will see the ingenuity in such an expansion of the base of the estimates that make up a country’s GDP, as such illicit activities as smuggling, child trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking and corrupt practices are part of the underbelly of every modern society...

Nigeria People' Parliament Courtesy Of Nigeria Democratic Liberty Forum

Nigeria really should lack nothing, what with 150 million citizens at home and abroad. It is time for us to put our distractions aside and get to work for Nigeria...

War Is Not The Answer

I hear militants in both the North and the South on television and radio blustering and bragging about how they intend to subdue their enemies. Gunshots are rattling in far-away forests, bombs are booming in busy cities, and there is confusion pervading the landscape...

US-Nigeria Ties

While Nigeria may not be in the mould of the United States, Nigeria is to Africa what the US is to the world.  This in the sense that whatever economic or security policies affect Nigeria, has a tendency to have a ripple effect on the rest of Africa...

Nigerian Universities Strike: To Redress Or Regret Past Neglect?

If Nigerian society is truly egalitarian, university education should be a part of the larger effort for the society to be inclusive...

Global Recession: It’s Implications On Nigeria's Economy and The Way Forward

Economists are often, occasionally unfairly, ridiculed as people who are good at theory but struggle when faced with the challenges of the real world as currently  being witnessed  globally. In times of economic prosperity, this isn’t a major problem, but when times are as bad as they are now, policy makers and politicians have to sit up and listen...

Downstream Petroleum Deregulation: Options and Constraints

Nigeria is facing a major fuel crisis following the deregulation plan of this government. The energy industry and our refineries lag well behind other sectors such as agriculture, eatery houses, oil-ware supply, ports and motorways in undertaking an open policy...

Jailing Their “Excellencies”

A piece of heartening political news came out of...

The Evil Merchant

The concept of marriage is an exceptionally phenomenal one...