The last two decades witnessed the phenomenal migratory flows of Africans, especially Nigerians, to the West, including the United States, at a proportion outpaced only by the Transatlantic Slave Trade. While the political and economic consequences of the migration flows of Nigerians to the United States have been captured fairly robustly in the scholarly literature on globalization, there is scant attention to the transnational online journalistic practices of Nigerians in the diaspora and what impacts these practices have had and continue to have on not just the form and content of journalistic practices in Nigeria but also on the national post-military politics of the country. This study used case studies to show ways in which citizen media owned by U.S.-based Nigerians broke sensitive stories that not only made it to the front pages of local Nigerian newspapers but also caused federal and state governments to react officially. The findings have implications for how we theorize news flows in the age of phenomenally fast transborder data flow made possible by the Internet