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...

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...

The Masters of Mayhem

There’s nothing we don’t sell on the telephone now. Prescription drugs, guns, assassins for hire, US visas… As long as it brings in a couple of Dollars, we’re into it...

A Bearded Poet Does Harare

We must find pride again in our culture. We must find fun in our healthy games, magic in our stories, strength in our tight family bonds, joy in the midst of all the problems caused by the haste with which our societies were modernised...

Encounter with an American Witch

This is Raheema calling from Hollywood Hereafter Resources. I just wanted to let you know that we have reserved a free burial space for you at the New Island Cemetery...

African Writers Gather in London

“I can’t write about Princess Diana, as I never met her or moved in those circles. I write about university graduates working as cab drivers and issues like that”

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

Wonder what business I had in court? No, I'm not getting deported. Not yet (ha ha!). I got another traffic ticket...

Only A Short Walk…

In London, when a helpful old English woman says “It’s ten minutes walk”, put on your jogging shoes…

Morning Sickness

There is a killer out there. You never know where he is going to strike next. The death toll is increasing by the day. I really don’t feel like going to work today…

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Gulf of Mexico oil spill: What lessons for Nigeria?

It is striking that while the US government, knowing “just how precious the Louisiana wetlands are”, have been firing on all cylinders to cause the BP to pay for a one-off incidental spill, the Nigerian state and its institutions have over the years been working in tandem with oil companies to systematically despoil and impoverish the Niger Delta wetlands...

Journey to Sapele…

If indeed travel takes your mind for a ride,...

Tackling Unemployment In Rivers

Governor Chibuike Amaechi might mean well in his Rivers State-led government. This could be the reason why the government is often praised for some laudable achievement. But before one could go to Eleme Junction and return, those projects the government is praised for have dilapidated...

The Rapture (1): Earnest Expectation of the Creature

Before the rapture, there is a way believers should live! Faith of our fathers is living still, no matter how men and ‘ministers’ wrest the scriptures. Jesus is coming very soon for His Church...

In Quest of Spirituality

Man must eventually reckon with the “spiral journey of the soul until the Man of earth and God unite” until time indefinite...

Nigerian ‘Japa’ Trend And The Issue Of Brain Drain

If you are to ask the average Nigerian today...

Nigeria: Let our economic patriotism begin

After listening to Mr. President's budget speech, I couldn't control my happiness because it was as if the President had just read my mind. Here are some of the things I've been thinking...

The South-South/South-East Blew it

From all indications, it appears the South-South and the South-East regions have finally shot themselves in the foot by blowing away what only a few weeks ago, seemed to be their best chance ever at producing a president for Nigeria...

Jonathan Doesn’t Know Poor Nigerians

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country folk, President Goodluck Jonathan amply provided it in an astonishing speech he gave last week...

Atiku Underestimated OBJ at His Own Peril

Some in the media want us to believe that government has ground to a halt because OBJ is dissipating energy on trying to remove Atiku. I beg to disagree...