The Nigerian Immigrant

Since the amalgamation of Nigeria by the British in 1914, the country has been plagued by bouts of war, economic crisis, ethnic conflict and political instability. Scholars have attempted to trace the genesis of this conflict and have blamed the British for several of its policies. The first momentous act of the British in the political evolution of Nigeria as a modern state was the amalgamation of the administration of the two sections of Nigeria on 1 January 1914 by Lord Lugard. For ease of governing and in the economic interest of the British […] this, in effect produced two Nigeria’s, each with different social, political, economic, and cultural backgrounds and development within the country.1 The union of diverse cultural groups that had, until the occupation of the British, little or no political interest in one another posed a genuine threat to the unification and progress of the newly formed state. Some pessimistic assertions implied that the country was cursed from the ...

I wanted to study journalism because I thought a journalist was someone who uncovered truth, someone who inspired change in their community, someone trusted by their society. Unfortunately, the concentration of media ownership in Australia has introduced something I have termed the selective truth. A truth told only on the basis that the media organisation you work for has no political affiliation or alliance with the accused person (s). In a lecture by Understanding Journalism author Professor Sheridan Burns, she states that journalists were the only professionals who were not paid by the people that use their service. So, as a journalist I am the product I sell. If this is true, shouldn’t this inspire more integrity in such profession? Scholars have argued more positively over the years that one needn’t work for a media organisation to be called a journalist, some have argued it is what you say and how you say it that makes one a journalist. But I say, a journalist is a pers...

This is an advice to my children, to my sister, to my brother, to you and me when there is change, i plea a positive change always remember fear is lurking, at very close range waiting to bury even the faintest doubt your heart, your friends, family and enemies are routes who knowingly or unknowingly allow themselves be catalysts of your destruction unless failure is an addiction change is necessary for success the world needs only one kind of citizens people who change the world and although they are uncertain, knocked down or even hurled they push not by any superhuman strength or delusion but by a willpower even fear, doubt or uncertainty cannot triumph so, the next time you my child, my sister, my brother finds change don't just run off embrace her, bring her home, love and cherish her for the rest of your life because you need her, more than you know.