Trump looks foolish and crazy screaming about Obama’s birth certificates, college records and Muslim connection By Raynard Jackson, USAfrica contributing editor and columnist Special to USAfricaonline.com When Donald Trump began to make public overtures about his possible interest in running for president of the U.S., I thought he could be a substantive wild card in the [...]
April 28, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS,
News |
Read More »
“Muslim or Christian, from the north or the south”, it’s time for forgiveness, says Ivory Coast’s archbishop Special to USAfricaonline.com ABIDJAN — Abidjan Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa on Sunday appealed for “forgiveness, reconciliation and peace” among Ivorians in an Easter message read in all parishes across this sprawling metropolis. “Ivory Coast must be a land of [...]
4 killed in bomb blast in Kaduna, northern Nigeria; governorship election postponed Special to USAfricaonline.com KADUNA, Nigeria: At least four people were killed and many others injured in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state when a bomb explosion rocked the Rafin Guza area of state on Friday. The bombing occurred in spite of the subsisting curfew imposed [...]
April 23, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
News |
Read More »
USAfricaGospel Video pick: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY by soulful and uplifting superstar Donnie McClurkin. He has overcome many adversities to rise to the pinnacle of gospel music, globally. He is, easily, the most famous gospel singer across the world. Donnie is one of our favorites here at USAfrica. Here’s wishing You a redeemed Good Friday and [...]
April 22, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
Life & Arts |
Read More »
Africa, U.S. foreign aid and the new legislative order in Congress By Raynard Jackson, Washington DC-based contributing editor and columnist for USAfricaonline.com Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group USAfrica, April 21, 2011: Whenever the U.S. government enters into a state of fiscal austerity, politicians always look for budget cuts from programs they deem [...]
April 21, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS,
News |
Read More »
Nigeria’s Governorship and State Assembly elections offer real test of “the Jonathan effect” By Nkem Ekeopara Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, AnambraPolitics e-group,IgboEvents and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group On April 10, 2011, just as the results of Nigeria’s National Assembly elections started coming in, I quickly wrote the USAfrica commentary, “After Nigeria’s successful parliamentary elections and the [...]
April 20, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS |
Read More »
Ndibe’s claims about Ngige’s Senate victory over Akunyili in Anambra State are strange and ridiculous By Isaac Umunna Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, AnambraPolitics e-group, IgboEventsand Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group Why do some of the heroes of our profession (journalism) take pride in demystifying themselves? This is the question that has been ringing in my ears since [...]
April 20, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS |
Read More »
Ndibe missed the mark on criticism of Gov. Obi and Ngige’s politics. By Chris Ukachukwu. Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, AnambraPolitics e-group, IgboEventsand Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group —— Going by this commentary on USAfricaonline.com (today April 19, 2011) by Okey Ndibe, titled “Gov. Obi’s politics supporting Akunyili, Nzeribe and other PDP turncoats backfired”, Gov Obi is a [...]
April 19, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS |
Read More »
USAfrica: Post-election mayhem in northern Nigeria: Burnt corpses with machete wounds on roads, churches and mosques burnt. Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, AnambraPolitics e-group, IgboEventsand Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group —— In a terrible, shocking aftermath of the relatively peaceful April 16, 2011 presidential elections in Nigeria, the announcement by the INEC of sitting President Goodluck Jonathan, a [...]
April 19, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
News |
Read More »
Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal, USAfrica e-group, AnambraPolitics e-group, IgboEvents and Nigeria360@yahoogroups e-group —— It’s sad to see how Governor Peter Obi of Anambra has made himself a bewildering figure. That a man whose political stock was once solid would so abjectly fail to rise to people’s expectations is – there’s no other way to put [...]
April 19, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS |
Read More »
Nigeria’s INEC issues voting results of 2011 presidential election; PDP 22m, CPC 12m, AC 2m USAfricaonline.com: Nigeria’s Independent National Elections Commission (INEC) chairman Prof. Attahiru Mohammadu Jega has announced its official tabulation of the returns of the April 16, 2011 presidential polls with the key results showing the following: PDP 22,495,187 (Goodluck Jonathan scored minimum [...]
Nigeria’s soccer star Adefemi killed in car crash Special to USAfricaonline.com Nigeria international soccer star, Olubayo Adefemi, has died in a car crash while on holiday to get married, Greek police and health authorities have revealed. The Police has said that the 25-year-old defender, who played for Greek club Xanthi, was killed after skidding off [...]
April 18, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
News,
Sports |
Read More »
Jonathan emerges to victory at Nigeria’s presidential election; some riots in northern cities; Emir of Kano’s palace burnt…. Special to USAfricaonline.com USAfrica: Nigeria’s leader Goodluck Jonathan and his deputy Namadi Sambo, both of the ruling PDP, are set to return to the seat of power in Abuja, despite opposition protests about inflated voting numbers in [...]
Nigerians break jinx of election violence and rigging with 2011 presidential elections. By Chido Nwangwu http://www.usafricaonline.com/2011/04/16/usafrica-nigerians-break-jinx-of-election-violence-and-rigging-with-2011-presidential-elections-by-chido-nwangwu USAfricaonline.com: Reports emerging from different key cities and regions of Nigeria show that Nigerians are breaking the jinx of decades of falsified electoral results, low voter turn out, election violence, massive rigging and other negative factors which have made [...]
Despite being the second largest shareholder in Obama Inc., the Black community cannot point to a specific program or policy directed towards them and their issues. How do you justify dividend distributions to other shareholders, but not your second largest?
Privately, the supposed Black leaders like Al Sharpton, Marc Morial (Urban League), Ben Jealous (N.A.A.C.P.) all agree with me; but they don’t have the guts to speak out publically because they still want to get invited to the White House and take pictures with Obama.
April 15, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS |
Read More »
Nana Rawlings, wife of Ghana ex-ruler, to battle sitting President Mills for party presidential ticket Special to USAfricaonline.com ACCRA — The wife of former Ghana ruler Jerry Rawlings said on Thursday she plans to challenge President John Atta Mills in party primaries ahead of elections next year in the West African nation. Nana Konadu [...]
April 14, 2011 | Posted in
Africa,
Chido,
News |
Read More »
Gbagbo’s fall and capture: Lessons for other African leaders By Gibril Koroma Special to USAfricaonline.com The capture and humiliation, on Monday, of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo should serve as a lesson to Africa’s leaders and maybe to the rest of the so-called Third World. Some of the lessons that could be gleaned from this episode [...]
April 14, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS,
News |
Read More »
Libya’s opposition reject African Union’s “peace deal”, says Ghaddafi “must go” BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Libyan rebels on Monday rejected an African Union initiative for a truce accepted by Moamer Kadhafi, and said the only solution was the strongman’s ouster, an idea his son called “ridiculous.” The rebel rejection came after NATO chiefs warned that [...]
April 11, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
News |
Read More »
Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo ‘arrested in Abidjan’ (AFP) ABIDJAN — Troops loyal to Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara captured his besieged rival Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan on Monday, France’s ambassador Jean-Marc Simon told AFP. “Laurent Gbagbo was arrested by the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, and taken to the Golf Hotel,” he said, referring to the [...]
April 11, 2011 | Posted in
Africa,
Chido,
News |
Read More »
After success of Nigeria’s parliamentary elections and the Jonathan effect, is the country ready for a new future? By Nkem Ekeopara, contributing editor and columnist for USAfrica, and first African-owned, U.S-based newspaper published on the internet USAfricaonline.com INEC-official-nysc-support-voting2011 USAfrica, April 10, 2011: The results of Nigeria’s National Assembly elections held on Saturday, April 9, 2011 continue [...]
April 10, 2011 | Posted in
Chido,
INSIGHTS |
Read More »
