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...

From U.S.A. with Love: See Me See Marriage

My older brother, Oyaw, lives in New York. In the summer of 2005 he went home to Naija to get married, dragging me along with him. His American girl friend was not told. My brother is educated but stupid...

Is Success an Overrated word?

Are Africans - specifically Nigerians - the only people on this planet equipped with a designer yardstick, which measures success in terms of material possessions, educational background and socio-economic status?

African Marriages As Business Ventures (2)

The United States of America is full of Africans who came to join their spouses and then unceremoniously abandoned their marital homes. Nigerians, more than other Africans, are masters of "taking off." For whatever reason, there seems to be more female culprits than men...

The Nigerian Royals Next Door

I am a serf.I do not have a following when I go to Nigeria. The crowd waiting at Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos does not celebrate my arrival. Neither will the crowd at my port of entry in the United States celebrate my return...

This is America my Brothers and Sisters…

To live in America is the dream of almost every Nigerian, young and old. But the bubbling and excitement in you when you got your visa and boarded the plane in Nigeria will fizzle out as soon as you set foot on this soil that is not yours…

Another Side of the Nigerian Coin

Why are millions of Nigerians migrating to more "developed" parts of the world even when it means living as second class citizens or living in the underground world of illegal aliens? Why is Nigeria unable to hold its own?

Home…A trip to memory lane

Why do I live in the house of my dreams, with a family of my own? Why is the need to reminisce often strong when I am alone? Why do I feel this void inside my soul? If I wanted some answers, I had to go back! Back to that place where the child once played hide and seek under the moonlight…

Should I go back home to Nigeria?

A good many thoroughbred professionals who have carved aniche for themselves in the US have become nostalgic and are actually considering coming back home to Nigeria permanently to carve another niche for themselves. They have been brainwashed that Nigeria is an Eldorado and that we are now an investor's delight...

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China as Friend and Partner to Africa

China invests wads and wads of Dollars in America. China in effect underwrites a great deal of American public debt. Why then is it that America does not tell China to go stuff her dollars elsewhere because of her infamous record on democracy and human rights?

Brainstorming the uniqueness of American Politics

It is sensational to see America the beautiful from the air and to observe its sheer size, and those wonderful highways and their network of fly overs, not to talk of the sheer beauty of American cities at night power...

Terrorists…Insurgents…The Middle East

Various scholars have noted that it is very easy to start a war; but very difficult to end it. Wars are messy and expensive and usually have unintended consequences. In the final analysis therefore, diplomatic and political arrangements are far better...

The Great Syrian Debate: Roundabout Diplomacy in Geneva. (5)

Syria is asked to join the Chemical Weapons Treaty regime and hand over all chemical weapons to an international control authority, yet to be constituted...

Atiku’s irreversible blunders

There is a Yoruba adage, which says that ‘ogbon...

The Bizzare Robbery Operation In Owerri

On Thursday, 28th March, 2008, there was a bizarre robbery incident in Owerri when in a mid-day bloody orgy, a platoon of well-armed robbers, stormed the Owerri branches of Zenith Bank and Intercontinental Bank...

The Fate Of Nigeria

Why is Nigeria in spite of its endowment in human and material resources continuing to wallow in political turmoil and economic depression?

A Summer Without The Boys

Since I have been living abroad, one of the things I look forward to every year is my annual summer holidays in Nigeria. A time normally reserved for me and the boys to get into all sorts...

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...

Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods (3)

How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that?