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...

Chaos Made Sovereign

It is our bestiality that matters to the civilised world, not our determination to overcome. Who is to blame?

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 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...

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...

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...

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WS@82: “Politically Correct Ideas vs. Cultural Openness”

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Delta’s N1trillion and Sweeping Poverty, Horrible Criminality

Since 1999 when monstrosity enthroned itself in government in Delta, the State has had about a trillion naira which in the main (some say 90 percent actually) has been mismanaged, wasted and carted away to sundry places home and abroad...

Literacy and Open Letters in Nigeria

I have only just returned from our dear motherland...

Suspending Do-Or-Die Politics

The political process in Nigeria has evolved in a particular direction, corresponding to the characteristics of political activists and the incentive-structure to reproduce the political system...

Njiko Igbo And Its Facilitation Of A Common South East position

The convening of Njiko Igbo by Kalu is not sycophantic, but audacious. The overconfident Kalu sees the Njiko Igbo as an all important socio-political dais for a president of Igbo mining in 2015...

Freedom Within A Cage…

For every animal, a trap exists to catch it however big or ferocious it might look. Hence we have lions and other wild animals "domesticated" and held captive in cages and zoos worldwide. However, there is no known trap that can capture the wind because it is invisible as much as it is invincible...

Yoruba Gang Busted? Nigerians Are Dagger Drawn?

It makes eminent sense and good logic that Nigerians would want to defend, protect and preserve Nigeria. Nigeria's national and international image and pride of place on the world stage should matter to all Nigerians...

Is the Conditional Cash Transfer feeding on the blood of the Poor?

In the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, we...

Politics, Policies and Governance in Nigeria

Of a truth, Nigeria’s major predicament is that those...

The Latest Singing Sensation Called ANE

There was the time when all the vibes belonged...