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...

A Reflection On Matthew Mbu’s Revelations About Tafawa Balewa’s Death And Femi Fani-Kayode’s Response

Any historian worth his craft will tell you that the pursuit of historical truth is an extremely difficult task. This is caused by many factors...

Migration to foreign lands

For most Nigerians who have made it to foreign lands, perhaps illegally, it is no longer news that virtually every fortnight these days, batches of Nigerian deportees are airlifted back home from abroad...

Nigerians in Diaspora Making an Impact

We cannot be content at home and abroad, limiting ourselves to religious activities such as church planting and having mega pseudo-religious conferences without a corresponding transformation of the Diaspora and the Nigerian society.  These activities must demonstrate their relevance by affecting the people around us...

The Nigeria High Commission in Malaysia and its Diasporic Community: The Truth of The Matter

Recently, the Nigeria High Commission in Malaysia has been in the eyes of the news for two major reasons. These are for an alleged fraudulent activity of the Commission and the menace of kidnapping scare that is fast assuming a dangerous trend among some segments of the Nigerian Diasporic Community in Malaysia...

How the Nigeria High Commission in Malaysia Defrauded Its Citizens: Attention EFCC!

On January 19, 2010, two Nigerians, Luqman Abdul Salam and Abdulalhi Bolajoko Uthman were arrested and detained for alleged involvement in terrorist acts Malaysia...

Going to Nigeria In Search of a Wife?

In spite of the current putrid and abysmal conditions, Nigeria is still home to some of the most disciplined, well-behaved, well-schooled and well-brought up women. To find, to meet or be introduced to such women can be challenging...

Help! Some Nigerians are Returning Home to Join the Bandwagon

Some returnee Nigerians in the diaspora seem not to care a hoot about how the money will be made and are gearing up to either contest in elections or connive with others to put their cronies and paddies in government with the sole aim of getting closer to the treasury...

Police brutality and Onovo’s challenge

When Nigerians think about the disappointments of their perpetually infantile nation, they often focus narrowly on rigged elections and the abuses of their gluttonous public officials...

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Obama’s Senate, Soldiers-Horses mating and New World Order!

The year 2011 closed with the gruesome issue of same-sex marriage. Obama and the West were poised to horn down Africa for not going insane with them...

Patrick Osagie Eholor…Apolitically Pro-People Humanitarian

Of the apothegms employed by thinkers in their classification...

Black Conservative-oxymoronic? A Response to Mr. Paul Adujie

Whether you want to believe it or not Mr. Adujie, your support, tacit as it may be, for abortion, homosexuality, infanticide, puts you in the same category with the abusers of children and the abusers of power that you complained about in your piece!

Biafra Zionism and the National Question

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all...

Amaechi’s Everyday Project Of Training Rivers Teachers

Rivers State implementation of the education strategic sector plan will not take a decade to be accomplished. The effort by Amaechi to give our children qualitative education should be followed with successes...

All Said, Why Should I Vote Out Buhari

As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its...

Obama Visits Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Russia Turkey as Perfect Democracies?

President Obama of the United States of America is visiting Ghana this summer, and this single forthcoming event, suddenly, is another cannon fodder and lightning rod for some Nigerians who never seem to fail to seize on every and any situation as metaphoric opportunity to denigrate and degrade Nigeria...

This Country Needs Heroes

Nigeria, unlike the U.S, lacks real heroes in the true sense of the word; lacks men and women who believe in the ideals on which their country was founded and who work assiduously to protect, sustain and promote them; bereft of patriots with altruistic dispositions - fearless loyalists who, above every other consideration, remain faithful, loyal and honest to the Nigerian State and its defining principles...

JAMB and Continuous Extortion

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is the...

Memo to the Nigerian Street

You and I know how we got to this sorry pass...I don’t need to bore you with stale news about your condition. Nigeria is happening to you daily. You are a living embodiment of this hell...