I was working in a nursing home when a male nurse, also a fellow Igbo, displayed understandable excitement at meeting another Igbo on the job. He proceeded to playfully hug …
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Life Abroad
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From Paris, France, in 2005 I remember calling my mother in Nigeria and informing her that I had found a ‘wife’, a white French lady I was in love with …
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I am a Yorùbá Girl Lost. My parents taught me neither the culture nor language. I was partially responsible for losing the language, because at age six, I decided that …
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“The truth of the case is that the aircraft scheduled to take you to Lagos developed an engine problem…”
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When I told African Americans who were my friends and co-workers, that I was engaged to my then fiancé, some of the first things they asked me is “Is he …
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I want you to understand that if you have not met your Nigerian fiancé in person, DO NOT waste your time and money… you will be denied.
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Our man the diplomat in London lounged at Owoh and narrowly missed Anne and Bukky, our co-protesters…Our High Commission had invited the cops to arrest us. One of us was …
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Does it really matter much whatever the late Osamuyia had done to warrant such violent eviction from the Spanish space?
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I do not often find myself defending any article that I write, but following the feedback and many comments that I have received after writing the article “The Illusions and …
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The recent murder of a Nigerian young man Mr Osamuyia Aikpitanhi by the Spanish officials has continued to generate justifiable opprobrium, especially from the large Nigerian Diaspora community…
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After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development …
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After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development …
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The visa process has been turned into a money spinner and a big scam to the detriment of poor Nigerians at the British High Commission…
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Please don’t mind me: I am a new arrival, a JJC to Nigeria after almost three decades in Yankee. Since my arrival, I tend to get things wrong…
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My uncle was in the UK for a visit and was stunned to realise that he had to pass through the kitchen to get into the toilet. He wondered if …
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Most of these organisations purportedly representing Nigerians in Diaspora are no more than paid town-criers and propagandists for certain politicians in Nigeria. They have been paid to make as much …