Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria.

Ibadan by Jujufilms
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My Name is Ayotunde

They try to snob you when you don’t speak “proper” French or look down on you when you don’t speak the queens English. Then you have black Americans who look at Africans like we are from another planet with “speak English man” meaning I don’t sound American. 

So way back when I was a college student in Madison, Wisconsin I looked forward to the roll call of my first classes. I enjoyed watching the professors struggle with pronouncing my name and no I wasn’t going to make it easy on them like my friends who all of a sudden started using their christian names. 
 
Those that had no christian names went from Fatai to Fredrick or Mudashiru to Micheal or Bashiru to Bernard and so on. Muslims became Christians by default in the quest to fit in the American culture. So Peter, Paul, Micheal, Francis and John became the new vogue. 
 
It felt odd that when we roamed the streets of Ibadan I called him Lekan now in college and amongst our American friends I call him Bernard. So I used my classroom as the forum to teach Yoruba, my language. I knew the professors would always ask if they pronounced my name properly. I would always answer no then proceed to teach the class how to pronounce my name and the story behind my name. I always felt proud walking around campus and referred to as a Nigerian by fellow students, that in my name is my story. Then again it made me popular with the girls.
 
My name is
Ayotunde 

 

Nuhu Ribadu @ Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Funeral Service

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Audu Innocent Ogbeh

Audu Innocent Ogbeh by Jujufilms
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Audu Innocent Ogbeh

Lagos State Nigeria

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No greater sin …

No greater sin than betrayal

Ogbono Soup and Pounded Yam Lunch

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Ogbono soup and pounded yam lunch with the Ode Family
Iheaka Village, Enugu State Nigeria.

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Shadow Criminals

When you walk into any establishment in America that transact in value currency there are visibly signs, warning in strict terms the consequence of robbing that establishment either by means of a gun or pen.The states and federal establishments, banks disguised as federal establishments, welfare offices, post office, prisons etc take it a step further with longer prison terms and heavy fines.

Thanking God am in Nigeria where I can safely watch politicians and police rob the people blind in peace. Where sitting President Goodluck Jonathan changes the name of one of Nigeria’s leading institutions of learning (University of Lagos) after the father of Nigerian corruption Chief MKO Abiola. 

Safe bet we have an educated fool in Aso Villa. What makes Abiola a saint amongst thieves, we Nigerians hardly forgot ITT, the genesis of corruption, or the lavish lifestyles of the rich and famous. So it says a lot that Dr. Pres. Goodluck Jonathan is mindless that Nigerians even a baby born yesterday in Oja Oba, Ibadan believe Babangida, Obasanjo, Abacha, Abiola and the rest of the shadow criminals are thieves and all tapped from the same oil well. So I ask again what makes MKO Abiola a saint amongst thieves?

Dr. Pres. Goodluck Jonathan in a half baked scheme most likely half baked by Femi Otedola tries to kill two birds with the proverbial one stone, throw Nigerians off the scent of the oil subsidy money and all the crooked politicians their cronies and family carting away Nigeria’s money in the billions in Ghana Must Go bags.

So I propose we post visible signs at all our international airports, Aso Villa, and all governmental offices of the consequence of robbing the Nigerian people either by gun, pen or Ghana Must Go.

Iheaka Enugu Nigeria Female Motorcyclist

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Female motorcyclist in the village of Iheaka in Enugu State Nigeria
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Iwo Road in Ibadan, Nigeria.

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Letter of Invitation.

Recently a childhood friend asked me to write him a letter of invitation so he could visit America on his vacation. Sill puzzled at the reasoning behind why a Nigerian citizen, a free country and member of the British Commonwealth of Nations would need a formal invitation by a United States citizen also a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the beacon of freedom to obtain a tourist visa.

Doesn’t this defeat the whole idea of freedom. How free is a Nigerian citizen when he can’t get up and travel to any part of the world without been subjected to unreasonable and downgrading rules, fees and taxes

Once again can we blame corrupt Nigerian politicians who just as the slave traders have sold our human rights to foreign interests?