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...

John Kerry's Presidency

If you think Al Gore was stiff, you ain't seeing nothing yet until you see John Kerry...

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...

Endgame

Home, where is home? Look, now England is home. I will NEVER go back to that hopeless country and be ruled by idiots. Never! Don’t you see the point? Don’t you see the kind of people running that country and the beasts who are getting ready to run it again, after running it aground...

Is The Presidency For Sale…

The American Presidency to the extent that it represents the whole world ought not to be for sale in the interest of mankind because we all have a stake in America just as much as America has a stake in the rest of the world...

Home Away From Home

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home" - Payne

The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance

Here was a President who had taken the easy way out of a combat experience in Vietnam now telling the world and the nation that John Kerry with all his service to the nation in the same war, is a cartoon character who is not fit to be a Commander-in-chief in times of War...

Stop Complaining…Adjust Your Attitude

Listening to people who willingly paid for a ticket to come to the United States berate it is deeply annoying...

Emeka Okafor: For a moment like this

I am as proud as any Nigerian can be in the rising fortunes of our son, Emeka Okafor who has started his epic journey into the Basket Ball Hall of Fame in America in much the same way like the one and only Akeem Olajuwon...

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Maradona – Fouled, not Foul

“There is none of thy kindred that is called...

NMA 2007 Winners: Were They Our Best For The Last Decade?

The “of the decade” idea in the whole show did not do the awards any good. Hence, right from the start the 2007 NMA had a peculiar line of criticism to contend with...

Nigeria’s Sick Democracy and Her Rule of Law Deficiency!

If a trader has to bribe his way through clearing goods and is unsure of overhead costs from one shipment to another, then how on earth is he going to be able to price his goods in a uniform manner?

Corruption Is Good Business

Corruption is good business to the participants and those who profit from it. I am not talking about official government corruption, but also private and public sector, and even the petty corruption we encounter in our everyday life...

Nigeria: A Clarion Call for Restructuring

I have taken a hard look at events over...

Will President Obama Save the Black Race?

The hope for President Obama has ecstatically gripped not only African Americans, in the Black world, but apparently all people of Black African ancestry all over the world...

Outgoing Politicians: Of Imperfection and Looting

It is not too late for Obasanjo to attempt redemption.He should clip the wings of political godfathers that have started emphatically identifying the next governors without regard for the voices of the citizens...

ABSU and its absurd dress code

Prof Mkpa, who for many years was the university’s orator, shocked the new and old students the other day when he reeled out a set of dress code, reminiscent of the famed Babylonian king, Hammurabi....

Lessons from Ghana

Nigeria's self-proclaimed status as the 'Giant of Africa' is...

The Joy and the Beauty of Old Age

There was a time we couldn’t wait to mature. At five, we longed to be ten and then fifteen. At sixteen, we couldn’t wait to be twenty and thirty and all that. Rare is the person who wanted to be a child or an adolescent for ever...