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...

From The Pen of a Foreign Mate…

I am baffled by the constant dialogue among Nigerians in America about “foreign women” who reject Nigeria.  Many Nigerian-American men and their families have cast American women as snobbish of third-world living and disdainful of Nigeria...

Home Coming

When people tell me they want to move back to Nigeria, I respond with the question, why? Sometimes I get a puzzling reply bordering around the fact that Nigeria is after all home, like it or not!

Instancing How Nigerians Have Been Agonizing, Traumatizing and Duping One Another

Oh boy! Na village you still dey.... No hope for you oh because if you think sey e go better like that, you no go ever make ‘em for life. I just say make I ring you oh, because as I don dey for paradise now, he no good make sense make I no say hallo to you my padi...

Africa’s elite and the Western media

I see no reason why the tide of bad news in Nigeria can not be stopped. Perhaps all it takes is a change of heart that begins with a radical rejection of the thought that the West is only interested in grubbing in the African compost...

Nigerians: The Desperate Attempt to Go Into Exile

Today’s Nigeria does not even resemble the Nigeria of the 1960s and 70s. Optimism has faded. In so many ways, one feels sorry for the next generation. To think we are not leaving a better life and a better legacy for them is just so painful...

Yar’adua The Great

I have since discovered that the very rich, the elite, the political establishmentarians in Nigeria live in their own very insular world.  They do not relate to you and I...

The Culture of Exploitation and Officialization of Fraud: A Discourse on E-Passport 419neering

This article is an attempt to expose the culture of exploitation and officialization of fraud that has trailed the advent of the E-passport, with a paid focus on the Diaspora community...

Hello World, Nigerians Are Coming, Nigerians Are Here!

The parade attendance was huge, everyone was jolly and celebratory and the ambassador played his role perfectly, and according to my information, he was said to have been very supportive and accommodating to various Nigerian groups in the planning processes of this wonderful event...

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Burnt Markets

Incidences of fire on our markets, are becoming a threat to the nation's economic growth/development. Physical markets in Nigeria are perhaps the largest employers of labour in the private sector...

70 Years of the UN: Critical Successes & Dismal Failures in the Era of the Antichrist

When Lucifer entered the hearts of Adolf Hitler, Mussolini...

Angel Michael must praise Gov. Orji

A people without shame do not regard honour. This is what the government in Abia State and its agents have turned out to become...

The scourge of internal terrorism

Terrorism is no doubt a global security problem. The frightening phenomenon manifests itself in forms of suicide bombings, arson, kidnapping, murder, false imprisonment, and the like, all of which deny peoples of their rights to life and personal liberty...

Between Dr. Abati, CNN, Nigerians & Nigeria

In writing Between CNN and Nigeria, Dr. Abati misapplied his skills, his education, his talents and his advocacy skills. Worse, he did all these in support of CNN, a media organization that has created a cottage industry excoriating Nigeria! Is Dr. Abati seeking some sort of award from the Americans?

Nigerians are also Dying from Prescription Medications

Africa is besieged with numerous unexplained deaths. Many could rightly be attributed to the consequences of poverty and dearth of a well organised and non-epileptic healthcare and social infrastructures. The reality is that we also have our own deaths from medications...

German Company flaws Abia State Government on Waste management Project

There was an announcement made by the Abia State Government in July 2012. It told the world that it would partner with a German company on waste management project in the state...

Of Okuko Nti Ike and Similar Fates!

It sounded like a fire alarm, on a sinking...

Ikedi Ohakim: Stewing In Scandals!

Unlike Anambra State, Imo State has had little problem of hijacked state apparatus by immoral godfathers or their lackeys and the citizenry boasts of majority of enlightened electorate who hold their leaders to account...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...