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...

To Nigeria and back in 7-days

The stagnation of resource improvement in Nigeria is a result of poor leadership, mortgaged integrities, and non-conformances to high personal ethics. Leadership does not only serve as the driver of all other actions, but also as the gubernators of all other effective management methodologies...

The Best Way to Help Africa is to Leave it Alone

Africa should be left alone because the history of Western influence and intervention has been on the balance overwhelmingly negative, beginning with the missionaries who wanted to help the “poor, sad and hungry people of Africa” to the aid-industry which followed it...

Approaching Genocide: Did We Learn Nothing From Rwanda?

Some of the people in Africa and other third-world countries adopt brutal savagery as a means of making their point or establishing their reign but those of us who disapprove of such barbarism in the twentieth century must do something when we see the signs of such approaching mayhem...

On Being ‘Foreign’- (Huh To My Accent, Love My Kinky Hair)

Just do me one little favor...don’t make any assumptions about me, and I will accord you the same respect.

Essays From Exile: Digital World, Analog Planet

Hope rises out of Africa like fresh steam out of a piping hot bowl of rice and stew. I rise to salute the courageous men and women that toil in the private sector and actually flourish under conditions that would be unacceptable in the West...

Al Sharpton Has Proved He Can Transform Himself And America

Discrimination is still a long way from being ended in God's own country and Leader of the Free World. That is the bad News. The good News is that America has come a long, long way in seeking racial equality, and has arguably done a far better job in that regard than any other country in this planet...

The Damage Controller-in-Chief

George W. Bush knows that for him to win in November he needs to urgently address the three important "M" in American Politics, namely Money, Message and Momentum. He is aware he is currently losing the last two, but has more than won the first "M" which is cash...

President Obasanjo and his Critics

Some Nigerian-related websites and newspapers are replete with two-kobo columnists pretending to criticize the president and his official policies when all they do is dish personal attacks and insults...

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Africans and the Exiled Life

If you have been living in the West for much of your productive life, and you are now clocking 55, 60 or 65 and with the urge to return home, you are likely to have headache or develop insomnia for a few days or weeks...

Creation, True Science versus Evolution (6): God’s Two Great Signs

A time is coming when, through Jesus Christ, all living Israelites shall be saved and that is besides all resurrected faithful Israelites. Israel is that sand on the seashore that cannot be numbered...

Mujahid Dokubo-Asari: Where is Justice and Fairness?

What was Asari Dokubo's offense? That he spoke against the maltreatment and the exploitation of the Ijaw ethnic group? That he spoke against the excesses and abuses being perpetrated by the multinational oil companies against the indigenes of the Niger Delta?

The Tress Of Stress

Anybody who is stressed can be compared to a laboratory rat that constantly gets a dose of electric shock...

The Forgotten Agenda Of The South-East Governors

Ndi-Igbo forefathers placed their personal enthusiasm less than the interest of Nigeria. Such elders were people like Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Akanu Ibiam, amongst others. They chased the mouse while their house burnt...

Nigeria: Giant Of Africa, Poorhouse of Infrastructure — And We Should Be Furious

Nigeria talks big — biggest economy in Africa, fastest-growing...

Fellow 'Nigerians,' Let Us Drink From This Cup

How come a transporter refuses to refund an unused fare? The most painful aspect is that the money involved is about $400, too much for a poor teacher like me to lose...

Why the Igbos are Marginalised in the Geopolitics of Governance in Nigeria

This is the time to strategize and clamor for...

Muhammad Jibrin Barde and His Strong Agendas

By Suleiman Saidu Usman There is a long tradition of...

Jonathan and the end of a honeymoon

Those handling Goodluck Jonathan better tell him that this week marks the end of the honeymoon phase of his “acting presidency.”