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18 years-old Alexandra Mills wins Miss World 2010; Emma Wareus of Botswana is first runner up. Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston The winner of the 60th blue tiara crown for the Miss World title of 2010 (a few hours ago, this afternoon) is the beautiful, confident and well poised Miss USA, Alexandria Mills,18years of [...]
Kenya’s Foreign Minister Wetangula resigns amid corruption charges Special to USAfricaonline.com Nairobi, Kenya (AFP) – Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula has said he was resigning amid allegations of corruption against him in the latest sign of a crackdown following the adoption of a new constitution. “I have made a personal decision to step aside as [...]
I Give Myself Away. This outstanding and uplifting performance and live event footage of the gospel song “I give myself away” by William McDowell is one of my top favorite songs. He reminds me of the compelling and evocative voices of Donnie McClurklin and Alvin Slaughter. I believe William is on an extraordinary and blessed [...]
Sunny Ogbu, PDP federal house aspirant, killed after a campaign and masquerade festival in Urualla in Imo State of Nigeria. Special report, first on USAfrica by Chido Nwangwu Houston-based USAfrica multimedia networks and USAfricaonline.com are confirming that there has been an assassination of a young, vibrant, frontline political aspirant and member of the ruling Peoples [...]
NPR’s firing of Juan Williams exposes muddled logic By Jeff Bercovici Does NPR even know why it fired Juan Williams? I don’t think so. I know why the network says it fired him, or at least why Williams, until yesterday a senior news analyst, says he was told he’d been fired. Williams says NPR news [...]
7 Dead At Kenyan Soccer Match following stampede Special to USAfricaonline.com Seven soccer fans were killed in Kenya when crowds scrambled to enter a stadium in the capital to watch two of Kenya’s most popular rival teams, game officials said late on Saturday. The Kenya Red Cross confirmed that 7 people died in the stampede [...]
It is the second time the run-off vote has been delayed in the presidential contest between former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, who won 43 percent of the vote in the June 27 first round, against longtime opposition leader Alpha Conde who garnered 18 percent of the vote.
Another Nigerian government official killed…. Special to USAfrica multimedia networks www.USAfricaonline.com The Nigerian police commissioner in charge of Bauchi State Danlami Yar’Adua has said today Saturday, October 23, 2010 that 2 gunmen (believed to be members of the radical, al-Qaeda leaning Muslim sect in Nigeria known as Boko Haram) have killed a local government official [...]
On being gay, bullying and media: I Think, Therefore I Am Not By Raynard Jackson Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine October 21, 2010: Am I the only one who has noticed the U.S. media’s total irresponsible coverage of the Rutgers’ college student who committed suicide when he became aware that his roommate streamed his gay sexual [...]
If 13 “policemen in uniform could not protect themselves, what will be the fate of the ordinary people?” asked Borno state Gov. Ali Modu Sheriff. “And that is why we brought the army to assist the police.”
DR Congo former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba facing war crimes charges loses bid to end trial Special to USAfricaonline.com AFP. The Hague— Democratic Republic of Congo former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba lost a last-ditch bid on Tuesday to stop his war crimes trial when world court judges dismissed his “abuse of process” appeal. “The Appeals Chamber [...]
Police open fire on presidential candidate supporters in Conakry Guinea police opened fire on protesters Tuesday, injuring at least six backers of Cellou Dalein Diallo, a candidate in the presidential run-off election this weekend, witnesses told AFP. The police were initially attacked by young supporters of Diallo’s Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), who [...]
2nd bomb threat from MEND pushes Nigeria to beef up security at Abuja airport, NNPC…. Special to USAfricaonline.com In a reasonable case of once bitten twice shy, USAfrica reporters in Nigeria say that the government of Nigeria and its security forces have been tightening security controls into this new week of October 15 through the [...]
Beyond the $50,000 lies, here’s why USAfrica is endorsing Prof. CHRIS ULASI for President of ASA-USA. ———– By Dr. Chido Nwangwu, Founder of the first African-owned, U.S-based professional newspaper published on the internet www.USAfricaonline.com ———— http://www.usafricaonline.com/2010/10/16/asausa-chrisulasi-2010-usafrica-chido-nwangwu USAfrica, Friday October 15, 2010: First and foremost, we commend the qualities and capacities of the three principal aspirants, namely: [...]
(AFP) – Somalia’s President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed appointed a new prime minister, replacing the previous premier with whom he had differences and who resigned last month. “After consultation I have appointed Mohamed Abdullahi (Mohamed) as the new prime minister. I wish him good luck,” Sharif told lawmakers who gathered at his office in Mogadishu. “I [...]
Killing of Houston cab driver Uzoma Nwokenaka, 2 African-American suspects CONFESS n charged…. Special to USAfricaonline.com Two young African-American suspects, Danielle Hudson and Chaz Blackshear, accused of killing two Houston cab drivers including Uzoma Blaise Nwokenaka appeared a few hours ago before a Houston (Harris County, Texas) judge on Sunday morning October 17, 2010. The [...]
USAfricaonline.com also learnt that the prosecuting attorneys, through court documents, showed Njoku and co-defendant Clifford Ubani (another Nigerian in Houston) hired co-conspirators to recruit Medicare beneficiaries for the purposes of filing fraudulent claims with Medicare for DME for more than $6million.
South Africa gets elected to U.N Security Council Special to USAfricaonline.com The 192-member U.N. General Assembly has elected South Africa to one of the two-year seats on the U.N. Security Council. South Africa got 182 votes on Tuesday October 12, 2010, in New York. It has become one of five non-permanent members with non-veto-holding membership [...]
Prof. FAFUNWA deserves gratitude of Nigerians not a presidential denunciation, says USAfrica Publisher Chido Nwangwu USAfrica, October 11, 2010, Houston, Texas: The distinguished Prof. Babatunde Aliu Fafunwa lived a life of varied distinctions and made definable, progressive impact on the education of millions of Nigerians and Africans. Babs, as he was fondly known, improved humanity [...]
Talks over independence of southern Sudan, oil-rich Abyei region collapse Addis Ababa (AFP) – Negotiations between north and south Sudan over the future of the contested oil-rich Abyei region have broken down ahead of an independence referendum due in January, a statement said on Tuesday. Delegations from the north’s National Congress Party and the south’s [...]
