Life Abroad

I have completed my assignments here in the Islamic People’s republic of Bangladesh and I am ready to start coming home in matter of days. I wanted to speak with …

I’ve always been amused by the cultural arrogance which makes Canadians – and their American brothers – assume that there is anyone in this wide planet of ours who speaks …

Brixton that night was turned into hunting zone. Every moving black man was a suspect. Black men were being hunted down like animals. I would soon fall into the hand …

If I must tell you the truth, an average Nigerian in the Diaspora still nurses this dream of returning back home some day. Why is it so? I think most …

The Igbos have a saying that a woman’s place in her husband’s house is only cemented after the birth of a baby boy. You wonder sometimes the sense in the …

There are Ijaw who, publicly, will abuse and attack and criticize government officials; yet, when government officials visit the United States, Canada or the UK, will be first in line …

Britain is freezing. I waddled through centimetres of ice flakes called snow. A poor African from a sun-bleached background. My consternation is better imagined than described. I raised the alarm, …

Life abroad has given me security of life and limbs. The fear of being wasted by ubiquitous red-eyed monsters we call armed robbers are gone forever. ..

To all who continue to pester me with, “What’s your new year’s resolution,” pay close attention…

Christmas is a time when many Nigerians abroad go on a carnal carnival to Lagos to recharge exhausted libido. Lagos is becoming a city to relight the fire and not …

Mrs Chukwu was arrested by the police and immigration officials for working illegally in the UK. It was discovered that Mr and Mrs Chukwu came to the UK on a …

It requires a certain amount of honesty and integrity to declare what sort of job you do in London. More so when such job is not among the A-list kind …

Before asking for the heads of Nigerians working abroad that dread returning home please take the courage to inculcate some decorum in the Nigerian police force, repair the death traps …

Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion.  Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and …

Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion.  Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and …

Some Nigerians who travelled to Europe in the hope of greener pastures are stuck there because the castles they built in the air have come crashing down on them…