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...

Baby Father: A Letter To ‘Nifesimi

I have been told stories of men who ran screaming out of the labor room. I have heard also of those who passed out on the floor. Well, I did not run and I did not faint...

Of Fuel Cell and Selling Nigeria's Fuel

In the face of the deadlock in the Middle East, it has become clear to everyone in Washington that unless the US found an alternative to Oil, it would be stuck in the Middle East for a long time...

We Shall Overcome… Someday!

I have been to the mountaintops. I have seen my hope and I have refused to let go...

A Questionable and Objectionable New World Order

As for all those nations and opinion-makers who are silent as the American White House and President Bush bring about untold chaos, may your place in hell be the hottest...

A Perspective Not So Foreign

I felt the pain of September 11, but I didn't feel it as an American. Being Nigerian also, my perception is fatalistic in nature and we are accustomed to handling tragedy in a different way…

Obasanjo: A Namby-Pamby Appeal

Obasanjo is a president that is incapable of understanding basic fundamentals of problem solving. He portrays an impression of a traveller who cares less about the compass needed for his journey…

One Week in the Sun

I just told you my brother is sleeping with my wife. You want me to take him on a cruise? Is that some sort of reward for banging my wife?

Happy Thanksgiving

We do not set a special day aside to reduce the turkey population of my nation, and complain of obesity the next morning...

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Of Debts, Disintegration and Friendships with Enemies?

Nigeria is not among the announced countries slated for debt relief or cancellations, and in large measure, this is what I accuse President Bush of, he did not want Nigerian debt forgiven, and his agencies were busily proclaiming the scheduling of Nigeria's disintegration!

Nigerianizing Nigeria’s Embassies

Career badmouthers of Nigeria’s Federal Government have gone gaga over the news that a modest sum of N1.5 billion has been earmarked in the 2009 budget “to fuel generators” in Nigeria’s Embassies and Consulates abroad...

Ndi’Igbo: No Justification For Uwazuruike To Throw Bomb

Ndiigbo are beginning to question his intelligence and integrity and are saying that he should stop flip-flopping as a leader. If he needs some psychoanalysis, he should tell Ndiigbo because he was supposed to understand that MASSOB and Boko Haram are at parallel lines, which means that they should never be compared nor equated...

Who Needs Etteh’s House?

What is clear is that Etteh and her supporters are blissfully unaware of the depth of public disaffection and resentment this scandal has attracted to the Speaker and her House...

Locating the Real Enemies of Nigeria

There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political...

200 Days in Captivity: Open Letter to the Chibok Girls

My Chibok Sisters, I am forcing back tears as I...

The Futility of War

No nation that started a major war, either in the twentieth or twenty-fist century, has ever emerged victorious...

Kano-Maradi Rail Project: Amazing Piece of Wrong Journalism

It’s amazing what partisan reporting can do to a...

Hyperbolic Exaggerations

President Obasanjo recently admitted being pressured by some Nigerians to stay on for another term, but he has not told us their reasons for urging him to stay on. It is Corruption on the part of the President not to name those Nigerians, or to dignify their advice by not speaking up on it sooner, and by not openly discouraging that kind of advice...

Of Ene Oloja, Hollywood And Jungle Justice

Ene Oloja. Remember her? In the 80’s and 90’s she was the buxom beauty who starred as Zamaye in Cock Crow at Dawn and later played the sister to the late MacArthur Fom in Behind the Clouds...