INTERNATIONAL AWARDS/HONORS: U.S Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, USAfrica’s Chido Nwangwu, Dr. Ogbonnaya to be honored by Hope Waddell alumni July 4 weekend Special to USAfricaonline.com: The July 2011 north America alumni annual convention of the Hope Waddell Training Institution, the first secondary school established in Eastern Nigeria and the third in the entire Nigeria since1895 in [...]
As Walmart enters, Nigerians may still be last to notice new, viable Nigeria By Ken Okorie Special to USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston & Abuja “Another attendee was overheard telling the ambassador in a private conversation that the end result of WalMart Stores might be a situation whereby more foreign made products mostly from China will now be [...]
Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide Special to USAfricaonline.com AP: The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes on Friday and gave both life sentences, marking the first time a woman has been convicted of genocide.Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s [...]
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Michelle Obama meets 92-year-old Mandela at his home Special to USAfricaonline.com Michelle Obama met former South African president Nelson Mandela in a visit at his Johannesburg home Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The meeting, which came at the start of the first lady’s weeklong official visit to Africa, was a rare one for the 92-year-old Mandela, who [...]
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it is also a matter of international best practice. There is hardly any other country in the world where names are sent to the Senator for confirmation without indicating the department of government that each of the nominee ministers is to be involved in. Without mincing words, if we judge him by this, the President is not approaching governance with a clean hand or honest heart.
USAfrica notes that the methods of suicide bombing is an unusual and brazen method in Nigeria’s political and religious conflicts. Also, there has been relative calm for the past 60 days in the restive Niger Delta, the home region of Jonathan.
Somalis, Kenyans commend killing of al Qaeda’s east Africa bombing mastermind By Abbi Guled-Associated Press. MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Kenyan man blinded in an al Qaeda attack on a U.S. Embassy 13 years ago said Sunday he welcomed news of the death of the mastermind who planned the blasts in Kenya and Tanzania, as Somalis [...]
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Bidemi Bello, Nigerian woman near Atlanta, convicted for abusing, “enslaving” 2 young Nigerians; sentencing August 24 Special to USAfricaonline.com By Ron Nakfoor/Gannett 11 A U.S federal jury has convicted a former Suwanee (near Atlanta, Georgia) resident of forced labor, trafficking for forced labor, document servitude, and alien harboring. Bidemi Bello, a citizen of Nigeria, was [...]
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Obama meets African leaders, Nigeria’s Jonathan and Gabon’s Ondimba By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher of USAfricaonline.com USAfrica, June 8, 2011: In continuing the U.S government’s bilateral and regional interests with the two countries, President Barack Obama will today and Thursday meet with two major oil producing countries. In a White House statement sent to USAfrica multimedia [...]
11 Nigerians killed in bomb attacks at 2 police stations, church Special to USAfricaonline.com At least 11 people have died after a series of bomb explosions struck two police stations and a church in the northeastern region of Nigeria, officials said Tuesday. Explosions blasted two separate police stations in Maiduguri, located in Nigeria’s Borno State [...]
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A new man is in charge of Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal (PDP North-West). He emerged as the new Speaker of the House after major shifts in the alliances and zoning positions of the PDP. He defeated Muraina Ajibola (PDP South West) with 261 votes, another major blow to one of former President Obasanjo’s candidates. [...]
Libya’s Oil minister confirms defection from Khaddafi to opposition group Special to USAfricaonline.com AFP/Rome: Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem announced Wednesday he had resigned and left Libya to join the uprising against Moamer Kadhafi “to fight for a democratic country,” Italian news agency ANSA reported. “I can’t work in this situation so I have left [...]
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