At the fall of October 2007, i had the privilege of attending the National Geographic film festival in Washington, where i had gone to receive a fellowship award of the All Road film Project.
I had only stayed a few days when i got an e-mail from an American citizen, accusing me of trying to dupe him of a large sum of money in U.S dollars!

How could he have said so if he was not out to blackmail me? I was baffled! I do not reside in this great country of the world! I have no bank account domicile in the United States! More importantly, i do not have access to his account details!

I wrote back!
Yes, like most Nigerians, i grew up in prolonged and confused politico-economic situation created by bad leadership system.
But at that, i was brought up with upright discipline and high morals in a family that takes nothing less!

Of 140 million Nigerians, how many of this huge population would one think of a dubious passport?
Can all citizens of this great country, Nigeria, be fraudsters? NO!

However, true that many are living on less than the average, but are humans that are adjustable to extremes. In all my entire professional soujourn, i have never come accross such a people who are resilience to extremes and ambiguous living conditions; a fraction of which had caused tumoil and genocide in smaller countries.

The portraits of a Commercial capital is to put the record straight to people who do not only perceive Nigerians as dubious but are equally too sophisticated to deal with!

In all of these, i'm an active participant, documenting the drama and lives of people who will always say: Never Die!