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...

An Epidemic: Nigerian Men Killing Their Nurse Wives in the US

It often comes to Nigerian men living in the US as a rude shock when their wives become the household’s bread winner.  Having been accustomed to the docility, domestication, subjugation and outright terrorization of women back home in Nigeria, many Nigerian men are astounded when their wives assert their financial, behavioral and social independence...

Marital Infidelity, Divorce, And The Untold Story Of Nigerians Abroad

The rate of divorce among African immigrants, of which Nigerians are a sizable portion, is climbing to astronomical proportions...

Cricket's Trail

The first time I mentioned to Paul, my close friend, that I had just been pulled over by the police, he cocked his head to the left as though to say I was guilty of a felony...

Thinking About Checking Out of Nigeria? Read This First!

As you plan to return to Nigeria, the fact that it is easier to leave Nigeria rather than return to it hits you smack in the face.  Do you have a place of your own to which you could return?  If you do, does it meet the standard of living befitting of a person who had lived overseas for 30 years?

Nigerians in Diaspora: The Rescue Agenda

The year 2012 is gradually fading off.  It has been fatally uneventful especially for Nigerian masses. While some nations are recording success and breakthroughs in all areas of human developments, countries such as Nigeria continue to struggle...

The Right to Bear Arms vs the Right to life: The Balancing Test

The right to bear arms and the right to life need to be placed on an equal scale of justice in order to determine whether the governmental duty of preserving life of its citizens outweighs their constitutional given right to own weapons for whatever purpose and vice versa...

Sold Out: Black British Billionaires

The Rich List 2012 passed the test of prediction. I am yet to be formally declared a prophet. My confident intuition paid off. Pages after pages, I saw smiling white faces. Some caressing their yachts moored on the Pacific oceans. They look robust, real and ready. They look beautiful, bouncy, bright and brilliant. Why not? They are the risk-taking, movers and shakers of this sceptre isle called Britain...

Occupy Nigeria House New York, January 10 2012: A Personal Reflection

On New Year's Day, when Nigerians were celebrating the advent of another year, the government of Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan announced the removal of fuel subsidy.  This unpopular move which raised exponentially the cost of living for the common man was met with stiff resistance and led to widespread protests throughout the federation in what is now known as the Occupy Nigeria Movement...

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The Unsung Nigerian Writer in a Hip-hop World

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What Manner Of Democracy Day?

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Let’s Forge Patriotism In Nigeria

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Bleeding Heart: Bahamas

When I visit the West Indies or the Island Nations of the Caribbean, I meet people who are clearly my long-lost cousins, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and all other members of my extended African family of yesteryears...

The Salutation of the Flag and Anthem

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The Shame Of A Nation

There are professors and there are ‘professors’. Can some one please tell me what Maurice Iwu is still professing at the INEC? I am really shocked by this man’s vaulting ambition…

Alamieyeseigha, Justice and the People

Alamieyeseigha and his boys stole and stole and stole and stole and stole some more as though stealing in anticipation of their great-grand-great children. Haba, what greed can do! DSP and his arrogant friends were not only greedy; they were addicted to stealing and misappropriating the people’s money...

The Pushback Begins: Why Sahel Nations Are Quietly Ganging Up Against Nigeria

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How the Nigerian music industry becomes a warring zone

Today, Nigeria is called "the heart of African music" in line with her strides in music developmental...

The Silent Working Governor

Good governance is a democratic idea and process that...