Innovation in America, improving Medicine and the Economy. By Doug Schoen

Take green jobs. In the near future, alternative energy technologies — like wind turbines and nuclear power — could emerge as viable competitors to coal, oil, and natural gas. These industries will need plenty of workers.

Another sector that’s poised to take off is biotechnology. Between 2008 and 2009, the industry’s income jumped ninefold — from $400 million to $3.7 billion. The venture capital raised by American biotech companies hit $4.6 billion last year. And biotech firms themselves invested nearly $45 billion in U.S.-based research projects last year.

Memories of Genocide and Rwandan government’s abuse of authority. By Prof. Chi Mgbako

The Rwandan government uses charges of “genocidal ideology” and “ethnic divisionism” to attack independent critics and often seems more concerned with political survival than with lasting reconciliation, manipulating the memory of the genocide for political gain. For several years I visited Rwanda on human rights research and fact-finding trips and authored reports based on my fieldwork. This tiny, beautiful, ghost-filled country, where 800,000 people were slaughtered while the international community watched, has stayed with me.

Protected: Utilizing experts in Nigerian governments: the examples of Nnaji and Egbogah

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Dora Akunyili, public service and path of honor

Dora Akunyili, public service and path of honor By Nkem Ekeopara Exclusive commentary for USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. I do not give credit easily to public officers, especially the type we have in Nigeria for the obvious reason that only a handful take public office  to serve the common good. Our unfortunate experience is that [...]

Sudan’s 2011 referendum: who’s afraid of freedom?

Sudan’s 2011 referendum: who’s afraid of freedom? By Prof. Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston Jean Ping, the chair of the Addis Ababa-based Commission of the Africa Union, recently criticised the likely outcome of next year’s referendum by the people of south Sudan on the restoration of their independence. Ping told a French [...]

Nigeria’s democracy, Anambra’s Governorship election: Winners, Losers and task ahead

Nigeria’s democracy, Anambra’s Governorship election: Winners, Losers and task ahead By Attorney Chris Aniedobe Edited version for USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine (Houston) and IgboEvents USAfrica, Feb 8, 2010: I am satisfied that the re-election of Governor Peter Obi was, substantially, free and fair and does reflect the electoral wishes of the voters/citizens of Anambra State of [...]

Where’s the Pan-Africanist support needed through Haiti’s dark days?

“Where’s the Pan-Africanist support needed through Haiti’s dark days?”,  asks USAfrica’s Chido Nwangwu Special to USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com As the efforts by the greater world community continue to tackle the crises following the hundreds of thousands of deaths and destruction from the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, a call has been made for more persons of [...]

Nigeria’s Anambra 2010 election, the key players and INEC’s challenge

USAfrica: The News & Opinion Leader for Africans and Americans. By Dr. Ugorji O. Ugorji Special to USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. USAfricaonline.com,  CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal,  Nigeria360@yahoogroups and IgboEvents e-group. There are several reasons why I think the south eastern Anambra State of Nigeria election for governor scheduled for February 6, 2010, will be exemplary in a [...]

Is Sanusi excusing Northern Nigeria’s failings and domination? By Ben Aduba

Sanusi’s second point seems that to blame the North for Nigerian failings is futile because the British held down the North while allowing the South a free hand in education. The Northern leaders who led Nigeria such as Babangida were actually guided by southerners. Do not blame the North.

2010 Anambra elections: focus on INEC-PDP not on Gov. Obi-sponsored ASA-USA “inspection” Christmas trip

2010 Anambra elections: focus on INEC-PDP not on Gov. Obi-sponsored  ASA-USA “inspection” Christmas trip By Ken Kemnagum Okorie Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, AnambraPolitics@yahoogroups.com, and IgboEvents e-group Houston, December 9, 2009: So much blood has boiled unnecessarily over whether or not a U.S-based Nigerian group, Anambra State Association-USA (ASA-USA), should accept sponsorship from Governor Peter Obi of [...]

In memory of Nigeria’s anonymous President Yar’Adua and the devil himself, Obasanjo

In memory of Nigeria’s anonymous President Yar’Adua and the devil himself, Obasanjo. By Rudolf Okonkwo, USAfricaonline.com columnist and CLASSmagazine correspondent December 2, 2003: Just like you and I, Yar’Adua will die. Someday. I want to be the first to write his obituary. It is the greatest honor I can give to the man. Yar’Adua should be [...]

Danger of Failure of Anambra State for Igbo Civilization

Danger of Failure of Anambra State for Igbo Civilization By Okey Mbonu, JD —– USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com (characterized by The New York Times as the  most influential African-owned, U.S-based multimedia networks) established May 1992, our first edition of USAfrica magazine was published August 1993; USAfrica The Newspaper on May 11, 1994; CLASSmagazine on May 2, [...]

Ribadu’s Hypocrisy, Bode George and Obasanjo. By Tony Eluemunor

Sowumni counters: Tony Eluemunor is just playing a game with us all. As a paid aide of ex-convict James Ibori, he was in denial of the looting perpetrated by his principal. He faintly tried to deny Ibori was involved in the $1 million scandal in 1995.

Why I’m seeking Lowell’s council seat: Ben Opara

Why I’m seeking Lowell’s council seat: Ben Opara campaigns in Massachussetts USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine’s Publisher Chido Nwangwu  interviewed Benjamin Tyndale Opara, an aspirant in 2009 for a seat in the Lowell City Council in Massachussetts. Here are excerpts: Tell us about Lowell? Lowell is the northernmost city in the state of Massachusetts. To its immediate [...]

Why the Republican Party, conservative values are dying

After returning from a recent Republican Conference where I was the keynote speaker, I couldn’t help but to notice that the average age of most of the attendees was 60 plus. Fact is that many conservative parents and grandparents confess that their children and grandchildren are liberal and want nothing to do with the party of their parents.
Given the fact that the future strength of any organization can be determined by the number of young people committed to it causes grave concern for the future of the Republican Party.
Why aren’t young people attracted to the Republican Party, and what must the Party do to attract more young people?

Those Republicans? Not Guilty! It’s the opportunists….

Over the past 8 years, Republicans presided of a massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. This led to the intrusive encroachment of government into the most private parts of our lives (wire tapping). Higher taxes have been camouflaged by using words like “fees.” In order to obtain a strong national defense, Republicans have spent like drunken sailors and activated our forces to the point where they are being stretched to the breaking point.
So, in a court of law, what is the evidence of these people truly being a Republican?

Is District 9 movie a fitting metaphor for the ugliness of Nigeria?

Nigeria is a nation whose ugliness is increasingly troubling! Nigeria’s Information Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili has implicitly accepted that there is something wrong with Nigeria’s image. She hardly accepts that there is something wrong with Nigeria. Trivializing her pet project to a matter of perception as she is doing with her usual zeal and outspokenness rather than accepting the obvious is very unhelpful.
The poignancy of such artistic endeavors like District 9, which has been described as “a science-fiction morality tale” ought to be seen as an effort not only driven by mercantile interest, but also an effort to employ art to deliver the message to the so-called Nigerian leaders, past and present of the incalculable harm they have done and continue to do their country and its inhabitants.
But are they listening? I have doubts.

Polanski, Whoopi and amoral Hollywood’s favorite rapist

Weinstein supported a documentary last year arguing that the real injustice came not from the rape, but from the oppression of Polanski by his prosecutors/persecutors in Los Angeles.
Weinstein compounded the foolishness by circulating a petition of famous directors who’ve joined the protest. Amazingly, the list includes Woody Allen, another famous dirty old man in Hollywood, who scandalously carried on a sexual relationship with an adopted stepdaughter 34 years his junior, and then married her.
Then there’s Whoopi Goldberg, whose defense of Polanski on ABC’s “The View” was that “it wasn’t rape-rape,” since he pleaded guilty to sex with a minor. Earth to Whoopi: It was statutory rape. It was non-consensual. Goldberg claimed everybody needed to wait for facts, even though the facts of the rape are crystal clear, as is the justice this man tried to evade. None of that matters to her.

Awofeso: Nigeria’s odyssey and the diffident leadership of President Yar’Adua

In these closing months of 2009, Nigeria’s predictably dire future will need to be re-assessed to decide the ultimate political question of whether or not Nigeria will continue on its current odyssey under the yet diffident leadership of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Suleiman: I am Hungry, Please Re-brand me

I am Nigeria. Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no power. So my wife gives birth with candle light and surgery is performed by quacks. All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also. I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before me. I am hopeless, hapless and helpless, please re-brand me.