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...

A Word Merchant’s Logbook

I am received like a state dignitary at the Canadian High Commission in London and given a tour of the facility. “This is what we do for visiting Canadian artists”, I am told. Meanwhile the Nigerian High Commission in London never responded to my manager’s e-mail about my impending visit…

Lost And Found Across The Atlantic

From Barcelona through Brussels and London, to New York, Washington D.C. and beyond Tokunbo Awoshakin paints a portrait of how Africans from different backgrounds arrive, struggle, fail or succeed in the cities and suburbs of Europe and America.

Preconditions and The Road Map to Peace in the Middle East

Chairman Arafat is known as the leader of the Palestinians and it is unfathomable for many leaders and nation-states to talk about solving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict without the involvement of Chairman Arafat...

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed of Nigeria? Pt 2

After landing, we were not allowed to leave the plane for 4 hours. Passengers argued that we were being treated with neglect because the flight was from Africa and full of Nigerians…

Terror, Terrorists And Terrorism

It should be noted that in the modern era, the United States “invented” terrorism just that it preferred to name her actions “Covert Operations”

Leprosy and Ringworm

To build a nation, there is an inevitable need to build common values, common ethics and common morality...

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed Of Nigeria?

Nigerians in the Diaspora are reluctant to say that they are from Nigeria. Some of us believe we could lose an interview, lose our honor, or perhaps get treated unfairly differently, if we identify with being a Nigerian...

I am NOT Anorexic

Okay, the truth is I suspect I may have some kind of problem...

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This House Has Fallen

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Okonjo-Iweala For President Part III

There is nothing wrong or illegal with Obasanjo using his position to enrich himself, but I have observed a pattern in his propensity to want to cash in on every opportunity he has as one of the luckiest Nigerians to ever rule our country...

Open letter to Alhaji Sani Yerima

It is perhaps right to state that the last has not been heard about your unceremonious marriage to a minor and the consequent barrage of public criticism it generated. June 15, 2010 is your next date with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic Persons...

Our hopes for 2011…

Rather than mouth the Happy New Year greeting like I used to at the beginning of each year, I’d rather keep my mouth shut.  And pray and hope harder. Pray and hope harder? Yes. Pray more for myself and for my country and hope that the 2011 general elections will actually be free and fair...

Victory for the Vanquished

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African dictators and logic of the ballot box

As I write this on Sunday, the results of Nigeria’s parliamentary election held on Saturday are streaming in. There is excitement in the newsroom the same way it is felt in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria. Change is here...

Nigeria’s Most Lucrative Sector

It is wrong for the government not to be involved in the commercial sex business when it is so obvious that it is the most singular business turning the economic wheel at night. If government is taxing liquor and cigarette sellers, why not tax sex sellers?

How The ‘Pagan’ Wole Soyinka Saved A Born-Again Pastor Chuzzy Udenwa

Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it...

How much money does a man need?

Why tackle only the tip of an iceberg and leave the base to rot? For as long as the “political detractors” of the likes of Adeyemi Ikuforiji remain un-arrested and un-molested, our society has no moral right to prosecute or embarrass Ikuforiji any longer.

First, Kill The Lawyers

Nigeria's problems are multifaceted, the fact that we have an educated class that cannot discern right from wrong is disheartening and I don't see any way forward when the so called elite in our society are not capable of critical thinking...