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...

Obasanjo, Terrorism and Nigerian Democracy

A fortnight ago in Washington D.C., just a few blocks away from the Nigerian Embassy here, a Biafran house was opened, the Biafran flag was hoisted and the Biafran national anthem was jubilantly sang by hundreds of Nigerians...

Na The Same Mama Born Dem

Na from airport I don begin smell God hand for this country. The kind breeze wey blow me after wey I commot for the aeroplane na better fine breeze wey just cool my body well well...

How Do You Live With Fear?

Americans and indeed people of other nationalities living in different cities across America are afraid. We are all still locked in an inner struggle between our rational and usual way of life and strange but understandable propensity to yield to a dull but now constant fear and panic.

Special Report: A Nightmare so Real…

How impregnable is America, really?

New York State of Mind

I thank God for my country, Nigeria. I thank God that my country is so "Third World" that we have not been able to make an enemy big enough to plan a Sept. 11...

Monkey Pepper Soup

Come on, Harry, It's a dog eat dog world. Just as America occasionally feasts on lesser nations, we eat lesser creatures. Try the monkey pepper soup. It's unbeatable.

How To Be An African

The white man is happy however that he can take over the world technologically, morally and now culturally. And we are very much part of the blame...

Soyinka's Other Gift to the World

Humanity may be messy, but it is intrinsically noble, and its existence is justified by certain inalienable rights. Any attempt to demean these rights in any one single individual or group, by an act of political or religious dogmatism, is an affront on the whole community, and should be so perceived and resisted.

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Mr. President, Let The Purge Be Thorough!

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Why should Mr. Speaker Resign as Speaker?

Morality and governance are Siamese twins. You cannot separate...

Avoiding the pitfalls of relying on renewable energy

One thing that Nigerians have always wished for and never got in the past decade is steady power supply. Governments before and after now grappled with the problem but nobody has come up with the panacea to that seemingly intractable problem...

While Amaechi and Omehia are fighting

Gov. Amaechi and Sir Omehia should understand that happiness goes with the journey, not the destination; just like mundane achievements lead us to nowhere, even though we see achieving things in the world as necessary or as necessity...

Ogun State Grassroots Sports Development will never be the same again!

"A vision that I never thought would become reality...

Gaffing Gaddafi Garrotted

Libya’s feral underclass, spurred on by Western arm and primitive ethnocentric agenda eventually got their man. To the glee of every copywriter in the West, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death was not only sensational in the newsroom but also a testimony to the power of propaganda...

Hold Sudan Government Accountable for the Death of Nigerian Peacekeepers

Murdering Nigerians, soldiers or civilians, must be turned into unaffordable and exorbitant luxury, too expensive for Sudan, Spain, Turkey...