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...

Buying a House in America: When Lenders Compete, Home Buyers Win?

If you have tenants, don’t rely on whatever rents they are going to pay you as your only source of paying your mortgage because you will be disappointed. Eight out of ten tenants will add more to your problems, rather than minimize them...

For Brothers Only: I Have A Craving…

In all my brief travels to the cities of the world, particularly in Europe, and residence in North America, one prominent craving that swells through my inside and saturates my soul is a craving for the African woman...

Jungle Drums Welcome Pastor Adeboye To Madison Square Gardens!

All powers including scientific, nuclear and even Black or Voodoo power all belong to God without any doubt. So are natural powers or natural disasters like the Tsunami, the Volcanoes and the Earthquakes and the Land slides. Since God creates the Oceans and the Lands and the forces within them that make such natural disasters possible, one can reasonably argue, it is the same God that can fully explain such forces...

Sticks Or Worms?

I have come to realize that relationship-wise, there are three kinds of men: the stick, the worm, and the wormy stick.  For most, if not all Nigerian women, we want the latter, the wormy stick, but of course, we are stuck with either the stick or the worm...

Applying for a Canadian Study Permit

Each year, Canada grants temporary entry to over 130, 000 foreign students to attend Canadian educational institutions...

Immigration to Canada as a Skilled Worker

Have you thought about immigrating to Canada and making a better life for yourself and your family? You are not alone...

Who Is Happy To Be Black?

If Black people have never been and are still not good enough in this 21st century to construct their own roads, airports, presidential villas, etc., or even to imagine exploring their own mineral resources, when will they ever be?

Africans At Home and Abroad

America is the land of God and gods, a land for the believers and non-believers. It is a land of dream merchants, of fabulists, tale-spinners; and of high and low achievers. It is also a land of pipedreams, broken dreams and untold anguishes...

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Ibadan: Romancing the one-term jinx

Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, the outgoing Governor of Oyo State is a disturbed man. His valorous stand off to the imperial conceit of Ibadan social, intellectual and traditional elite is truly Ogbomoshonian in its breathtaking performance...

Shall We Ban Religion?

Our younger brother’s wife was bleeding, losing a lot of blood, laid out on a bed at the National Hospital, Abuja.  She had just delivered a baby, their second in just over two years.  My sister informed me that despite serious pleas from everyone in the family, from clinical staff at the hospital, and from concerned strangers, my brother refused to give his consent for his wife to have blood transfusion...

Ngozi the Commissioner Spells Education

The student was different. She exuded confidence that seized the...

Why We Must Succeed Wherever We Are

The case of Nigeria is deeply saddening because the nation is not being destroyed by a natural disaster or by a military invasion by outsiders, rather it is irrationally destroyed by the very people who reside in it with the collaboration of external players who continue to eat the rotting flesh of the great blind and mute elephant of Africa.

A New Springtime for Young People: Father George Ehusani and the Rest of Us

Today’s world has succeeded in producing great material comfort and an alarming spiritual decline at the same time. In spite of the degree of ostentation, instant gratification and luxury with which modern life is now associated, many people still live lives devoid of happiness and tranquility...

Nigerian Myth 101: The South's Poverty Is The North's Fault?

When national infrastructure decay from wanton and unbridled neglect as a result of decades of abandonment by our local, state and federal governments, the consequences are borne by all Nigerians, regardless of origin, birth or state and region of residence...

What Happened to the Nigerian Intellectual Class?

By the early to late 1990s, the society of Nigerian intellectuals had become mushy, clay-like, adulterated, corruptible, and puerile. It became a laughing stock...

Nigerians Yawn Over Missing Billions

Why are we so blest? What combination of factors has rendered Nigerians this apathetic, this nonchalant, this indifferent to their degraded condition? In a space where most so-called citizens exist in animal-level states, a country with no healthcare to speak of, a vast toilet of a country where millions defecate in the open...

Jonathan, Babangida and the Sword of Damocles

Ever since Jonathan became the substantive President on May 6, 2010, it will seem that his body language has been indicating that he may contest for the Presidency in 2011, triggering a foreboding of the implications of his decision to contest or not contest for the country...

Death, the leveller of men!

In recent times, we've seen the transition of the...