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...

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.

The Writer and the Global Frontier

A lot of us will never live fully in Africa again. Many people in my daughter’s generation will probably grow up with only the idea of Africa...

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Legitimacy of Governance, Succession, Policing, in Nigerian Politics: a way of life

What defines the democratic society is the ability of the citizen to exercise freely their vote by electing or deciding who will or should rule over them...

Native But Naturalized Nigerians: Bothering or a Burden?

Being a Nigerian is something that we need to value more than ever. But we have always placed humankind above homeland. We are internationalists, first and foremost, without ceasing to be patriots...

The Genius that is Olusegun Obasanjo

Can anyone think of Nigeria in the last thirty-five years or so without Obasanjo? He is the custodian of political-goodies, the man with both raw and refined power and unbridled influence...

A Special Plea on Nigeria Prize for Literature

The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature...

Going Back Home

Bruce Warioba is my actual name. I had to change it to Warris when I arrived England in the sixties. I was black and I didn’t want to add to the trouble by telling them a name they would not understand thereby relegating me totally...

The $67 Billion Foreign Reserve Legacy (1)

First indictment was that former President Obasanjo left a whopping $67 billion in foreign reserves for his successors. Second indictment was that Yar'Adua and Jonathan administrations squandered that money in addition to billions of oil revenues accruing to them. Third indictment was that because of ''squandering'' of public funds, ''poor Nigerians have suffered the effects of failing health and education systems...

It's the security, stupid!

What the President ought to be looking at right now is how to effectively checkmate the activities of terrorists by using the people they are terrorising against them, including establishing a fast-track judicial process that must still meet the standards of the rule of law...

Femi Fani-Kayode May Be Right!

In the blind rage to throw FFN under the bus, in front of the train, and later into the River Niger, all of us have conveniently forgotten to address the more salient points he made...

The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (1)

I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up to how desperate our sports situation is. It made me proud and cry at the same time...

French Court Ruling against TotalEnergies’ “Net Zero” Claim and Lessons for other IOCs

By Innocent Edemhanria On 23 October 2025 a Paris civil...