Travel & Leisure

Beyond the barrel: The tourism imperative (2)

According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism generates over $1 trillion in exports annually, creating millions of jobs and stimulating local economies. Be that...

Beyond the barrel: The tourism imperative (1)

Nigeria is at the moment in a precarious position, teetering like a heavy toddler due to the instability of its monocrop economy. The country’s...

Princewills Trust: Second Batch Winners set to hit Dubai

Winners of the 2022 edition of the Princewills Trust Vision and Success Opportunity Challenge have just departed for a one-week all-expense-paid Bootcamp and tour...

What makes Afrozons Dubai Sound off authentically captivating and irresistible

As the global Dubai Expo 2020 kick starts, there lines a number of tourist side attractions designed to add world-class tourism flavour to the...

Abuja Ten Years from Now

I am on board the Virgin Bombardier Eco-6 train that runs a daily route from Kaduna to Abuja. This high-speed rail service has allowed...

Anthony Bourdain: In Memoriam

Just read that Anthony Bourdain has joined his ancestors.  He killed himself, as the news made clear.  Anthony Bourdain was a CNN Chef, who travelled the...

Travel and Black Identity: Location, location, location

In an ideal world, travelers would manifest the ideal of what it means to be colorblind. I find it quite amusing what's considered "significant" accomplishments...

American Historical Sites and Monuments

The tour was scheduled for Sunday, August 13, 2017, between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., directed by Ms. Jeanne Fogle, a fourth-generation Washington and Certified...

Sister Cities: Of Chicago and Ibadan: Music, Architecture, Disney et al

There are interesting coincidences between Chicago in the U.S. and Ibadan city in Nigeria. In Chicago is the Chicago Tribune, the largest Newspaper outfit in...

Journey to Sapele…

If indeed travel takes your mind for a ride, what happened to me over the weekend in Sapele was indeed an eye-opener. The family...

Ibadan to Accra by Road

My Facebook readers know I am not one of those propagating the false impression that Accra, or Ghana as a whole, is Africa’s new...

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Two Governors and Many Missing Opportunities

In the absence of clear and complete explanation and indeed justification of any government action, people are left with no alternative but to speculate. Consequently, a lot of possible reasons and opinions are going around regarding the actions of the Governors...

African American Experience and Lessons for Africans Caribbean Immigrants

It is almost taken for granted these days that life is good for African Americans in the United States. This is assumed, even though life is still full of racial impediments and obstacles for a majority of African Americans...

When The Dame Died!

The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her 'rivals'; her children and above all the millions and billions stashed away, garnered through connubial corruption!

Nigerian Murdered in Spain

A Nigerian is murdered abroad. He was brutalized in a most repugnant and most reprehensible manner. Who speaks for him?

Ekiti Re-Run: Hanging to a Void or Hunting for a Voice?

What an historic opportunity we in Nigeria have wasted. With our British legacy of parliamentary democracy, we could have been different, a model and beacon for the rest of the third world...

When Power Corrupts: The Tumultuous Tale of Alex Mascot Ikwecheg

In a viral incident that has gripped the nation,...

Changing Liberia

Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is probably the most visible woman on earth today as she has made it to the history books by becoming the first Female African Head of State...

A Culture of Violence

The capacity of the Nigerian soldier for reckless display of brute and barbaric force has long been established. A typical soldier is a reflection of the arbitrariness of the military institution - swashbuckling, above-the-law and arrogant...

Nuclear Diplomacy and the Diplomacy of Peaceful Co-existence

Since the United States retaliated against the Japanese Pearl Harbour incident during the Second War, by dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki an atomic bomb called, "Little John", some states started to develop their atomic and nuclear research...

Igbo Roads As a Metaphor

Multinational corporations are looking for large population with reasonable low labor cost where they can relocate some of their operations. Nigeria is being overlooked because it is not doing well on matters such as mobility and accessibility...