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My last post was on the 26th of January, a whole four days ago. Did you worry that I had been kidnapped by a militant Islamist group? Had I ...

As a starving artist, I pick up my guitar or my harmonica, and I walk the railroads of the world. I'm not being held down by a 9-to-5, b...

Today was the day of the groupie. My hotel room was stormed by hundreds of fully clad Egyptian woman asking me to sign their hijabs. Okay, I...

Nigeria vs Ghana is one of the premier grudge matches of world football. The games always promise fireworks whenever they play, like Nigeria...

Whenever I go to an African country, it’s inevitable that I make comparisons with Nigeria. In Egypt though, I’m comparing it to Nigeria and ...

I'm in Port Said right now. I don't have nearly enough time to type my thoughts - internet cafe clock ticking. I'm in a hotel ca...

الحمد لله is an Arabic word that transliterates into " Alhamdulillah ", which means "praise be to God", kind of like ...

I know I claimed credit for Mark Oaten's withdrawal from the Lib Dem leadership race. However, I can categorically state that I am NOT r...

Yesterday, Mark Oaten dropped out of the Lib Dem leadership race. I like to think I had something to do with it. When I was on Question Tim...

The Chancellor’s Fabian Society speech at the weekend echoed a similar speech David Cameron gave in August. Since July 7, the idea of how ...

Michael Buchanan goes to Nigeria for the BBC World Service in Dirty Money. He talks money laundering to Finance Minister Ngozi Okonji-Iweal...

I listened to Tony Blair’s speech on Respect, with a grin on my face and laughter in my belly. It was funny, not because most of the measure...

One of my most enduring memories of the former Tory leader Michael Howard when he was Home Secretary in John Major's government. His man...

It would be downright stupid to say that this is going to be an interesting year for Nigeria. Every year in a country's life is interest...

The 453 bus between Deptford and Marylebone has got to be the most eventful bus route in London. The last time I was on it, a woman had her...

I shall gaze into my crystal ball, and give free advice to those who want to make a killing at Ladbrokes , or some illegal betting ring. The...

It's amazing how the tiniest of things can shake the resolve of the British. If Al-Qaeda wants to rile British people they might have re...

I went home to Nigeria on holiday last year Christmas. It was a kind of boy done good, went-to-university-in-Britain-and-now-has-a-degree ho...

The former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said, "there are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics". App...

Today, I received a very exciting letter in the post. At first I thought it was a red letter telling me that the helicopter hovering above w...