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...

Why We Can’t Change Our Conception Of Europe

There is this perception that money could be picked up on the streets of Europe, but the tempting money our brothers who come back flash could be money gotten through prostituting, peddling drugs and involvement in fraudulent acts...

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...

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Democracy, Corruption And The Rule Of Law In Nigeria

We should put issues in perspective and be a bit more realistic and impartial, at least as far as Democracy, Nigerian-style is concerned...

Ponzi Democracy: Executive Embezzlers, Legislative Peculators, Judgment Procurers

The recent Court arraignment of three ex-Governors by the EFCC for embezzlement of State Funds to the tune of over One Hundred Billion Naira is evidence that our Public Officers are not ready to change their corrupt ways...

‘Joy of the Senate’: Does Jonathan sanction Rigging?

Emordi is like a student expelled from a school for worst of crimes, and who we all would agree without question cannot, in the very next breath, be contracted by the principal to advise him on student matters...

Public Diplomacy

President Obasanjo, while I admire some of your good attributes in government, would it not be advantageous to come out to say openly and to clear all the fuss like someone once said; if drafted you would not run, if nominated, you would not contest...

Fireworks, Street Urchins New Year’s Eve

So there I was, feeling very pious with my Bible tucked under my arm, heading to church...I had a bad feeling about this trip…a feeling I could not shake off try as I may...

One Equals Fourteen Hundred in New World Order Mathematics

To be a nuclear power, all you need is the audacity. Then fortify such audacity with a few chess moves. And you are in. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has audacity perhaps. But he has no underwriter friends. Saddam Hussein's attempts at strategic ambiguity caused him his throne, and then his life and the ruination of Iraq...

Danjuma Vs Ironsi: A Widow's Curse!

Picking holes in the assertions credited to General Danjuma in "the Guardian" interview Mrs Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi described Danjuma as "shameless coward and a terrible liar…"

Nigeria’s FM Radio DJs

It’s good to see that new things are happening in radio broadcasting in Nigeria but the presenters should please not throw caution to the winds by adopting a Lawrence Akapa tabloid style approach in their quest to entertain...

Prosperity, Eternity (18): Heaven: You cannot eat Your Cake and have it!

The Church is a spiritual movement consisting of pilgrims walking their way through this world and commanded to use things of this world sparingly and even such things as God Himself promised to add unto them as they keep on with the pilgrim’s walk...

Slavery!: Africa Must Apologize

Africa must be the first to tender an unreserved apology to descendants of their brothers they sold to foreigners to be taken to foreign lands…