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...

U.S. Cracks Down on Immigrants

Hundreds have been arrested and now face the possibility of jail time and deportation. Many are currently in detention for allegedly using some form of false identification to obtain their jobs.

Ige's Last Stand

A celebration of the life and times of one who lived and died a great man...

Nigeria: From The Outside Looking In

If you can't convince the ones currently at home to cease seeking for the first opportunity to bail out, how will you assure the ones outside they stand a chance of survival if they return?

The Gates of Heaven

The story is told of a Nigerian who arrived JFK from Lagos and was returned to Lagos via the next outgoing flight... He had valid papers.

Odighizuwa: He Didn't Have His Medication

Perhaps prior to the Odighizuwa case, only a few people bother about the thousands of immigrants that end up in the different inner cities in America; in county, state and federal jails; in mental hospitals and in the gutters as a result of trying to escape the harsh realities of American life via the use of drugs.

Of Slaves and Masters

Maybe there is the need to make immigration laws less friendly for those without any form of education or skill, like these uneducated girls and ladies, whose only means of living is what is between their legs.

The Second Coming

My boss asked for Lion meat when I told him I was going to Africa for the holidays...

Exchanging Ignorance

The news programs in America are doing the American people a disservice by keeping them in the dark about the rest of the world...

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Bringing Good Government To The People

Post-military national democratic leadership has been less effective than many would have wished. Nigeria’s federal system gives too little autonomy and authority to the nation’s thirty-six states...

Lest We Tar the CBN With Emefiele’s Brush

Recent developments in the country’s economic sector have become...

Agents Of Satan Now In Abia

Abia State has become the devil’s den with daylight robberies, killings and kidnappings. The state has become a free for all place for killers and armed robbers...

Naija Notes: The Rot in the Senate

A bevy of scantily clad beauties swooped down on the nation last week, ensuring CNN had some good things to say about Nigeria for once...

Hunger Has No Political Party

Any man in power in Nigeria can boast of...

Time to Say Goodbye to Bad Leaders

At fifty years of independence, it is now time to change the way we think and feel for the better. It is now time for us to respond, unite and vote for the best leaders and say goodbye to inept and corrupt leaders...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Pentecostals and the ‘Daddy’ Syndrome

The current narrative of the many UK based ‘African Majority’ Pentecostal Churches is the clinging to the fantasy that the ‘Men/Women of God’ who serve them are perfect.  That they can do no wrong, have no weaknesses and live and embody perfect lives...

The Season Of Reason: Time To Move Forward

With only a few days to the handover to a new government, we are still hearing belligerent and disgruntled voices threatening brimstone and fire, some very unpatriotic elements calling for the elections to be annulled...

IBB, New UN Secretary-General

I see IBB as a man with a lot of self respect.  I suppose most Nigerians do too especially when we consider the fact that ‘little children’ like Nasir El-Rufai and Ribadu, who served in the Obasanjo government as FCT Minister and EFCC Chairman are also contesting with an agbalagba like him to be president...