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...

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...

Some Good May Flow Out Of Evil…

Every time I reflect on America, and I do so quite often, what I simply cannot get off my mind, is summarized in these words, “What a country, and why is America so different from all other nations?"

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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Cyril Nri – Nigerian born star on British TV

Is there a conspiracy to put black actors and writers down?

A Humane Proposal For Buhari: Resign

There’s a chance that President Muhammadu Buhari would have...

The Key Ingredients of Social Change (2)

Social capital is the key issue on the front line of the successful implementation of development agenda. Economists, management experts, politicians, key policy makers and opinion formers are ever more realizing that it is not the case that liberalization does not work, but that economic policies are not just enough to induce real and sustainable development...

Culture Shock In Germany

Living outside one’s country certainly comes with its pains of personal struggles and ups and downs. It can alter one’s lifestyle in so many ways...

The Rapture 9: A wrap up

Man did not only bring a curse upon himself; his environment, the physical world or all of creation itself was not left out. The purpose of creation for both man and the larger creation of God was affected very negatively...

The Jonathans: There is God oo

I was shocked to hear the President say that we do not have a modern army.  We don’t?  What then has been happening to all the billions that go into Defence budgets every year?  So, in a way, I was relieved to learn that the Americans are coming to help us out...

Ogboru: Uduaghan’s Rejoinder and Grammar

It is no longer news that my piece “Take a Trip to the Three Warri LGAs” published in the Vanguard of Tuesday February 7, 2010 has attracted a balderdash full-page rejoinder from Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Consultant...

Abia: Can Orji Dethrone Orji?

Without equivocation I hold that Orji Uzor Kalu, the former Governor of Abia State and the ex-BOT Chairman of the defunct PPA party, has been demystified politically...

Could Orji Kalu Be An Agent Of The C.I.A.? (3)

What is most annoying, disappointing, incomprehensible and incredible to believe is the condemnation of the arrest of Kalu for embezzlement by the  Igbo Youth Congress...

The Spirit of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Anyone can pick a cause, but few are picked to lead movements. When a heart has been bruised by the sufferings of others, the spiritual connection among those people has extraordinary strength...