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...

A Nation of Two Laws

You might have heard that you live in a nation of laws; America is supposedly a nation of the rule of law. Unfortunately this is not entirely true. In this nation they have two laws. They have one law for the super rich and one law for the common man...

Dummy Guide For Nigerians Travelling Abroad

Soon, it might become a requirement for visitors to the United Kingdom to have evidence of health care insurance before getting a visa...

In a Way…It Happened This Monday

We meet to talk about things, we talk about the kind of things friends and lovers talk about: life and ideas and aspirations and fears and the light in our heart. You know, it is really easy to talk to someone you feel affection for...

Would You Consider Yourself Successful?

"I sometimes wonder whether those of us who are in the academic world are not wasting our time doing what we do best. We toil and toil and toil all in the name of advancing knowledge…all for what…$50-75k a year?"

S.O.S! Bring Back Sani Abacha!

I am thinking that when the soldiers come back to loot, er, rule, we now have something to keep them in line. If they start misbehaving and stealing, we will say to them, if you are not careful, we will invite the pro-democracy movement back to Aso Rock! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! That should put the fear of God in their thieving heads! I still have my placards...

Nigeria Is Where the Heart Is

I have on occasions witnessed people sob, or become misty-eyed, when they speak of how much they miss friends and family and the community grew up in. They may grumble about this and that and about everything that is socially, politically and economically wrong with Nigeria; still, they'll tell you how much they miss home...

Broke in America

You are broke, and all you need is a helping hand but there is none. Blessed Jesus! It is in times like this when "America will show you her true color."

A Life…At Forty

There used to be a saying that a fool at forty is a fool forever. In our situation, this may not be the case because of the peculiar nature of our social, economic and political environment, a situation that has condemned many of us to the perennial late starter syndrome...

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64 Toasts To Things Fall Apart

This year marks the 64th birthday anniversary of the...

Understanding and Tackling Poverty-Inflicted Diseases

We can only imagine the number of Nigerians that would be spared the agony of living with preventable cancer if only they are aware of the right fruit to choose, and the herbs to chew...

Yar’Adua: Another Greek Gift from Militricians

Yar'Adua represents a continuation of a culture of mediocrity, a relegation of meritocracy for expediency and the victory of manipulation over strategy. Yar'Adua is not the best Nigeria can offer moving forward...

Bible, Science, Creation, Civilization and Eternity

Science as the study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world and society agrees with scriptures at the end of the day if thorough observation and quality experiment is carried out...

Still on Osun Governorship Election

In a matter of weeks, voters in Osun will...

The Almajiri, Talakawa Dan-Arewa Ideology

The Talakawa and their Almajiri can be transformed by the sudden dictates of history. Theoretically, they may not be revolutionary conscious but they are a potential revolutionary force...

Who kidnapped Lota Ezeudu?

On the evening of September 26, 2009, Bona Ezeudu and his wife, Ngozi, found themselves enveloped by a terrible fog that has yet to lift. The couple’s nightmare came by way of the startling discovery that their only son had been kidnapped...

“We are Now in Charge!”

A lot of things can happen if all workers in Africa’s community of conscience begin to labor in a way that would make President Obama understand the need to focus, for once in five hundred years, on Africans and not Africa...

‘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...

Corruption and Buhari’s Perfect Storm

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will inherit something of a perfect...