DIASPORA
THE DOOR IS CLOSING
UK net migration fell to 171,000 in 2025. Lowest in over a decade, excluding the pandemic years. The routes Nigerians use most have been hit hardest. And the UK isn’t the only country tightening. UK net migration fell to an estimated 171,000 in the year to December…
YOUR MONEY ABROAD
The CBN has rewritten the rules on how Nigerians send, receive, and move money across borders. The fourth edition of the forex operational manual takes effect June 1. Here is what it actually changes for you. The Central Bank of Nigeria published its fourth edition…
GLENN GIBBINS
Glenn Gibbins was elected to Sunderland City Council last week. He now represents the ward that contains the Nigerian community he wrote about in a post from March 2024. Reform UK won control of Sunderland City Council in last week’s local elections. Gibbins won…
THE APPOINTMENT AND THE CRISIS
Nigeria is sending Femi Fani-Kayode to represent it in the country where its citizens are right now closing their shops and going indoors. On Thursday, Femi Fani-Kayode announced that President Tinubu had approved his posting as Nigeria’s Ambassador-Designate to…
THE WORD FOR A CHILD WHO BELONGS TO TWO COUNTRIES
South Africa invented a name for the children of Nigerian and South African parents. The name tells you everything. “Sougerians.” That’s what some South Africans call children born to Nigerian-South African families. Foreign Minister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu used…
THE SON OF MIGRANTS
Bukayo Saka’s parents left Nigeria for London. Last night their son sent Arsenal to the Champions League final. There’s a version of this story Nigeria tells about itself. There’s another version it hasn’t learned to tell yet. Adenike and Yomi Saka left Nigeria for…
THE DIASPORA HAS FIVE DAYS TOO
The NDC has opened a digital membership registration platform for Nigerians abroad. If you are an Obidient Movement member outside Nigeria, your five-day clock is running too. The Obidient Movement’s statement after the NDC defection explicitly included Nigerians at…
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