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...

The Dishonourable Africans – Part IV

On the eve of departure of the imperial civil servants from Africa, they fitted all the national institutions of politics and of commerce with selected African Yes-men...

The Dishonourable Africans – Part II

In the real sense, the nobles of all empires and kingdoms were the lackeys, the lapdogs, the bootlickers and scallywags of the land. The nobles were those opportunists who readily sang the praises of the new murderous gangsters on the throne...

The Dishonourable Africans – Part III

Africa, as at today, has no original identity of its own. There is nothing indigenous anymore about the ways of life in Africa since Africans encountered the Arabs and the Europeans...

Operation Uhuru For Sozaboy

Tending goats in the village can teach you a lot of things. The instincts are buried deep like etchings on a tombstone...

Military Adventures, Nigerian Marriages And Other Matters

I know quite a few who searched the nooks and corners of the US for available and eligible Nigerian women to marry – all to no avail...

Persian Gulf War 2: Political and Military Minefields

Each day that passes without the collapse of the Iraqi regime is viewed by more people as a brilliant and courageous Iraqi defensive strategy...

Fireworks fly at Equiano Conference

Serious doubts are raised over whether Equiano ever visited Africa...

Iraqi War And The News Media

Is the news media serving to inform the public or helping to manufacture the people’s consent to the war?

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Portends of a Failed Election in 2007

There is a vital factor that makes any election credible and that one factor is that whatever it is that is put on ground to make that election credible must be absolutely transparent...

Double Standards In The Drug War: NDLEA Cast Into Shadows By Excessive Pardons

When President Tinubu recently granted clemency to 175 convicts...

IPCR Leads Advocacy Visit to Strengthen Conflict Early Warning and Early Response

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), in...

In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria’s Newest Literary Voice

Do NOT copy John Grisham. And as you write a story, imagine that your parents and uncles and aunties and relatives will NEVER read it. You are more likely to write truthfully, more likely to write things as they are...

Of Kingsley Ayodele Moghalu  and  China: Looking beyond Nigeria

Kingsley Moghalu, then presidential candidate of the Young People's...

World Diplomatic Crises, Afghanistan, Iran: No Turn-around

Seneca’s view that government is more or less a makeshift remedy for human evil, has remained a truism...

The Nigerian Police Force

The history of the Nigerian Police is a history of nobility, service and sacrifice. It had a glorious past. In recent years, however, the police have come to be known as the bastion of illegality, inefficiency and institutional decadence...

$1.2 Billion And Governor Odili

How much money has Governor Odili or Rivers State received by way of allocation, derivation, loans or grants; and, can he account for the monies?

Meeting The Mind Of The Almighty At Heaven On Earth

Oasis In The Desert Of Time – Critical Perspectives...

Anambra Development and Investment Corporation (ADIC): An Overdue Idea

By Nwike Nweke As was widely expected when he came...