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...

The Writer and the Global Frontier (2)

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...

Fire Is An African God

You're from Africa and you've never seen a lion?

The Largesse of His Excellency

If ever there was a case of money in search of an idea, it is the Abdulsalami A. Abubakar Distinguished Lecture Series!

There They Go Again: Carpetbaggers' Diaspora Organ

It is funny that a government that does not adequately attend to the ordinary needs of its citizens...is pretending to organize people whose presence in America, Europe and elsewhere is by and large a result of the failure of the Nigeria state.

A Curious Christmas Gift

I believe the boy must have been happy to be in London. He was maybe too young to hate Nigeria, but young enough to know the deliciousness and freedom of a new experience...

Stranger In A Strange Town

In Nigeria, you don't have to call ahead to tell a friend or neighbor you're coming over. You just knock on the door and they let you in.

Season of Migration to the West: A Reaction to the Guardian

Nigerians remain the most educated ethnic group in America, much sought after and well-compensated by employers because of their focus and dedication to work.

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Insecurity in the Country – Motivational Factors, Effects and Remedies

If history is anything to go by, the human...

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...

Welcome to South Africa

I am in South Africa to see the first ever World Cup on African soil. I hope the tournament will be a great success and will confound the prophets of doom predicting violence, murder and crime...

Hail To The Chief

G.W. may not have the verbiage and bulldog persona of a Ronald Reagan. But he sure brings to the Presidency a sure footedness and single-minded focus on promoting the cause of Freedom around the world...

Saving the World from Itself: A World Peace Conference is Imperative (2)

Bilateral and multilateral agreements on arms control have not succeeded in affecting the arms race...

Anarchy and the Rule of Law in Ekiti and Plateau

Events of the past few weeks in my home state of Ekiti and the Middle Belt state of Plateau have been nothing short of alarming...

On the Origin and Foundation of Inequality in Nigeria

Man has dominated man to his injury                       - Ecclesiastes...

Encomium/Kennis Music Green and White Party: How Do You Celebrate Nigeria?

I write as a Nigerian who has observed with dismay how we have inadvertently allowed music as a form of art to undermine the fight against Advance Fee Fraud in general and the Internet form of it, in particular...

Rejected For Loving a Nigerian Man

In marrying my Nigerian husband, I find that I, an African American woman, have taken on the entire country’s fight as well.  I mean I am called on, through thoughtless remarks or questions, to defend my choice...

The Bastard Fathers of Modern-Day Democracy and Politics in Nigeria

By Paul Okojie Modern democracy in Nigeria was born out...