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...

Equality in African Relationships

Is there such a thing as a truly equal heterosexual African relationship? Equal share of power, responsibilities and spousal support? Do they exist?, and if so, what structures in our societies and in marriages do the individuals who chose to follow this path have to surmount?

My Mother in-law Is In The Trunk!

My mother is an African mother in-law! I was raised with three other siblings and my experiences growing up and ever since, are night and day compared with the gory, highly emotive melodramatic tale foisted upon us by our gifted embellisher in-chief, Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde!

My Mother in-law Is In The Trunk!

My mother is an African mother in-law! I was raised with three other siblings and my experiences growing up and ever since, are night and day compared with the gory, highly emotive melodramatic tale foisted upon us by our gifted embellisher in-chief, Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde!

African Mothers-In-Law: Responding to Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde

Generally speaking, there are two groups of people Africans love to hate and abuse and pour invectives on: mothers-in-law and the village witches...

African Mothers-In-Law And The Cycle Of Abuse

There are excellent mothers-in-law who will treat you like their own daughter, and there are those who even before meeting you have their gun barrels loaded. Too many African men are brought up not to be able to have adult conversations with their parents, so in the face of the battle of the in-laws, they duck for cover and throw the wife to the wolves...

All Hail The Inter-Galactic Force Of Girlfriends

A lot of things have happened to me lately, and they have really opened up my eyes a lot.  They have taught me that in reality, not all that glitters is gold.  In fact, majority of what glitters is only gold plated....

The Untalented Mr Woodrow

I’m having a bad day at work, my nerves are barely holding together as a result of work pressure and this creepy moron’s email pops up again on my mail box...

On a Rainy Night in Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee, is not like Seattle, Washington, where it sometimes rain as though the rivers in heaven overflowed their banks. But on this particular day in Nashville, it rained. It rained and rained and rained...

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The World In A Slant of Light

To write not just about the future, but about what it would be like, would require more than minor talents like the ability to read economic indices or monitor the progress of technology. It required, more crucially, a language and an attitude of mind, and anyone who possessed anything close to these would hardly bother...

Did Communism Really Fail? Ideological Disquisitions

I have watched the jingles about Poland being propagated on CNN, as if Polish prosperity only took place after the Solidarity Movement impacted on Poland. The truth is that if the Soviet Union did not have a socialist state organization that defeated Hitler, Warsaw would not have seen war and survived...

Still on the Security Situation in the Country

It is disheartening that our lamentation on the security...

Yar’ Adua’s Health Crisis And The Options Before Nigeria

The main issue from the national crisis occasioned by Yar A’dua’s recent health crisis is that the country, must as of compulsion, discuss the possible alternatives open to the country should Yar A’dua drop dead...

A Friendly Advice In The Ears Of The President

Mr. Obasanjo likes the company and output of thinkers; he listens less to opinions of others because he has a deep suspicion that many Nigerians are self-serving...

My Reflection on Education and Democracy in Nigeria: Vision 2020

Since January 2007, I have had time to reflect on the issues raised in this article and the recommendations people have offered. Here are my thoughts...

Beginnings with Philately…

My country and our men and women have a passion for football. Even the kids. And that is why I sometimes wonder why the postage stamp on my snail mail ignites an interest more profound than the squabbles with our FA and its leadership...

Project Nigeria: Viaticum for Polyphemus

The current condition of statehood in Nigeria calls to mind two seemingly far-flung and historically divergent analogies, one rooted in Roman Catholic rites of passage for the dying and the other lodged in the fate that awaits anybody who stands in the path of freedom and justice in Greek mythology...

Black Pride

How could the black race advance or claim any sort of authenticity when it is losing its language, culture, religion, history or education. Whatever education we credit ourselves with did not stem from the black race…

Where are the role models?

Any concerned Nigerian, old or comparatively young, who was perhaps familiar with how the age-long, good societal value system of honesty, integrity, decency, hard work, communal living and good neighbourliness held sway in the not-too-distant past among the various tribes and communities across the country, ordinarily would screech at what has become of leadership at differing levels in different sectors of the national economy...