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Archive for ‘November, 2010’

How the Nigeria Foundation Houston blocked my right to obtain the Nigerian e-passport

How the Nigeria Foundation Houston blocked my right to obtain the Nigerian e-passport

I think and found out, like many Nigerians, that the process was very unfriendly, unprofessional, ineffective and ill conceived to render quality reliable service to law abiding and industrious Nigerians. This charade could have been done in a better humane environment instead of keeping people outside under Texas sun with no sitting chairs, no preferential treatment for those with little children, no reliable information, and charging ridiculous fee.

Hillary Clinton asked U.S diplomats to spy on African leaders, credit cards and military equipments, discloses WikiLeaks of secret cables.

Hillary Clinton asked U.S diplomats to spy on African leaders, credit cards and military equipments, discloses  WikiLeaks of secret cables.

Hillary Clinton asked U.S diplomats to spy on African leaders, credit cards and military equipments, discloses  WikiLeaks of secret cables. Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine WASHINGTON DC— The United States has ordered its diplomats to play a larger intelligence role by performing espionage work like obtaining the credit card and frequent flyer numbers of foreign [...]

Is Libya’s leader Khadafi romantically involved with his blond, sexy Ukrainian nurse? as WikiLeaks spill secret U.S cables.

Is Libya’s leader Khadafi romantically involved with his blond, sexy Ukrainian nurse? as WikiLeaks spill secret U.S cables.

Is Libya’s leader Khadafi romantically involved with his blond, sexy Ukrainian nurse? as WikiLeaks spill secret U.S cables. Special to USAfricaonline.com Veteran Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi fears flying over water, prefers staying on the ground floor and almost never travels without his trusted Ukrainian nurse, a “voluptuous blond,” according to a US document released by [...]

Terror: 19 yrs-old Somali-born U.S citizen arrested for car-bomb plot in Portland, USA

Terror: 19 yrs-old Somali-born U.S citizen arrested for car-bomb plot in Portland, USA

Terror: 19 years-old Somali-born U.S citizen arrested for car-bomb plot in Portland, Oregon. By William McCall, The Associated Press in Portland, Oregon. Special to USAfricaonline.com Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting [...]

Obama’s lips busted; gets 12 stitches after basketball game

Obama’s lips busted; gets 12 stitches after basketball game

Obama’s lips busted; gets 12 stitches after basketball game. Special  to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. U.S President Barack Obama has opened himself, inadvertently, to an injury and more late night jokes. He was elbowed by a yet-unidentified player which required 12 stitches in his lip after receiving an injury in a basketball game at took [...]

USAfrica: Atiku emerges as North’s consensus candidate; Nnamani likely pick as VP running-mate

USAfrica: Atiku emerges as North’s consensus candidate; Nnamani likely pick as VP running-mate

Atiku emerges as North’s consensus candidate; Nnamani likely pick as VP running-mate. By Chido Nwangwu, USAfrica. USAfricaonline.com: Sources very close to the northern Nigeria leadership forum have informed Houston-based USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com that the leaders of the group have settled for the former vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar as the candidate to carry forth [...]

War crimes court starts “preliminary” investigations in Nigeria, Kenya, Honduras

War crimes court starts “preliminary” investigations in Nigeria, Kenya, Honduras

War crimes court starts “preliminary” investigations in Nigeria…. Special to USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com ,  CLASSmagazine and Nigeria360@yahoogroups blog Investigators at the International Criminal Court are conducting preliminary probes into crimes in Nigeria and Honduras to establish whether to open cases in those countries, the court’s prosecutor said Thursday. Luis Moreno Ocampo gave few details of what he called “preliminary [...]

ELECTION CRISIS in Guinea; state of emergency declared as death toll rises

ELECTION CRISIS in Guinea; state of emergency declared as death toll rises

ELECTION CRISIS: Guinea declares state of emergency as death toll rises. AFP/By Laurence Boutreux in Conakry, November 17, 2010: Guinea’s acting leader declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after violence which has raged since a disputed presidential election claimed three more lives. Interim president General Sekouba Konate, who has led the troubled country since [...]

BrkNEWS: 19 oil HOSTAGES released in military raid in Niger Delta

BrkNEWS: 19 oil HOSTAGES released in military raid in Niger Delta

Nigeria’s Niger Delta crisis: 19 oil hostages released in military raid; striking a blow to a resurgent militancy Special to USAfricaonline.com Wednesday, November 17, 2010; 6:02pm EST. Associated Press. By John Gambrell, Lagos, Nigeria: A military raid freed 19 hostages held in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta Wednesday night, a negotiator said, striking a stunning blow [...]

Violence erupts, as Guinea’s presidential candidate Conde: “I have won” re-run election

Violence erupts, as Guinea’s presidential candidate Conde: “I have won” re-run election

Guinea’s presidential candidate Conde: “I have won” re-run election By Laurence Boutreux/AFP in Conakry. Deadly violence flared in Guinea hours ahead of results of its first democratic presidential election since independence from France over 50 years ago, as both candidates claimed victory. Veteran opposition leader Alpha Conde, 72, said he had “clearly” won the run-off, [...]

KIDNAPPING AT FUNERAL! Gunmen kidnap 4 near Port Harcourt, Nigeria

KIDNAPPING AT FUNERAL! Gunmen kidnap 4 near Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Community and Police worried as gunmen kidnap 4 persons at funeral near Nigeria’s oil city of Port Harcourt; President Jonathan’s government issue new threat to deal with MEND, kidnappers…. Special to USAfricaonline.com , CLASSmagazine (Houston), Nigeria360 e-group and USAfrica blog and PhotoWorks.TV By Chido Nwangwu. USAfrica, November 14, 2010: The menace of kidnapping in Nigeria continues [...]

CLASSmagazine 7pt2, Kase Lawal, President Barack Obama, Chido Nwangwu, USAfrica,

CLASSmagazine 7pt2, Kase Lawal, President Barack Obama, Chido Nwangwu, USAfrica,

CLASSmagazine, cover, 7pt2, Kase Lawal, President Barack Obama, Chido Nwangwu, USAfrica, USAfricaCLASS magazine, cover V 7.2, 2010

Africa Women Soccer finals: Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea this Sunday

Africa Women Soccer finals: Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea this Sunday

Africa Women Soccer finals: Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea this Sunday; after Nigeria whipped Cameroon 5-1 Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston Equatorial Guinea secured their maiden FIFA Women’s World Cup voyage after they beat South Africa 3-1 in the semi-finals of the CAF African Women’s Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa. They will be joined by [...]

USAfrica: Looting of Nigeria, Babangida Presidency or Nigeria dies in 2011. By Naiwu Osahon

USAfrica: Looting of Nigeria, Babangida Presidency or Nigeria dies in 2011. By Naiwu Osahon

Investigating the Looting of Nigeria, the Babangida Presidency or Nigeria dies in 2011 By Naiwu Osahon (This is his second commentary for Houston-based USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com His first was  in 1995 in USAfrica The Newspaper). Special to USAfricaonline.com, USAfricaonline.com and CLASS magazine and  The Black Business Journal Houston http://www.usafricaonline.com/2010/11/10/looting-of-nigeria-babangida-presidency-or-nigeria-dies-in-2011-by-naiwu-osahon/ The Arab world desperately wants Nigeria dead or [...]

Significance of my trip to Rwanda. By Onyeka Onwenu

Significance of my trip to Rwanda. By Onyeka Onwenu

Rwanda is today in the forefront of African development and socioeconomic transformation. This East Central African country of eleven million people is quite a gem, a beacon of light in a continent usually associated with backwardness and underdevelopment.

ATLANTA special edition of CLASSmagazine, Sat Nov 13 at Igbo Union Day, etc

ATLANTA special edition of CLASSmagazine, Sat Nov 13 at Igbo Union Day, etc

ATLANTA LEADERS & Professionals are featuring in CLASSmagazine’s SPECIAL EDITION COVERAGE of Saturday November 13, at Igbo Union Atlanta, and across Georgia. Be a part of history; be profiled and featured by the professionals who know the Igbo, Nigerian and African communities across America. Including special spotlight of personalities and families on the #1 African diaspora [...]

2 Americans, 3 other foreigners taken hostage at Nigeria oil rig attack

2 Americans, 3 other foreigners taken hostage at Nigeria oil rig attack

2 Americans, 3 other foreigners taken hostage at Nigeria oil rig attack Special to USAfricaonline.com , Nigeria360 e-group and USAfrica multimedia networks (Houston). Gunmen attacked an oil rig off Nigeria’s coast on Monday (November 8, 2010), taking two Americans, two French and one Canadian hostage while wounding two other people, oil company and security sources [...]

USAfrica BrkNEWS: Literary giant Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina dies in U.S

USAfrica BrkNEWS: Literary giant Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina dies in U.S

Literary giant Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina dies in U.S By Chido Nwangwu. Special to USAfrica multimedia networks (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com November 8, 2010: The distinguished and prolific scholar of English language, English literature, African literature and general arts Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina , USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com learned a few minutes ago from close family sources, has died [...]

Ethiopia’s Gebre Gebremariam, and Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat win 2010 New York City Marathon.

Ethiopia’s Gebre Gebremariam, and Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat win 2010 New York City Marathon.

Ethiopia’s Gebre Gebremariam, and Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat win 2010 New York City Marathon. Special to USAfricaonline.com Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia has won, a few minutes ago, the 2010 New York City Marathon, Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat won the women’s race this same November 7 Sunday. It is the first major marathon championships for both of them. [...]

Michael Jackson’s new album to be released December 14

Michael Jackson’s new album to be released December 14

Michael Jackson’s new album to be released December 14 Special to USAfricaonline.com CLASSmagazine and USAfricaMUSIC A new album of previously unheard Michael Jackson songs will be released on December 14, the first such release since the pop star died last year, his Sony Music label has said. Called simply “Michael,” the album marks the latest [...]

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