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In tough economy, do what you love and the money will follow. By Mona Sarin, contributing correspondent and columnist for USAfrica, CLASSmagazine and USAfricaonline.com since 1998 based in Georgia, USA. USAfrica, November 1, 2010: Just a day before the mid-term elections and at the back of the mind of most voters is the question: Just [...]
President Jonathan, shut them down…. By CHIDO NWANGWU, Publisher of USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. On Wednesday July 7, 2010, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan’s tangle with the world’s soccer governing body FIFA will see the rugged lines of global soccer cooperation, national sovereign claims and responsibilities intersect and clash, again. Jonathan’s swift hammer fell on [...]
Somali piracy suspect pleads guilty in NY court to hijack U.S. ship A Somali suspect who became the boyish face of 21st-century piracy by staging a brazen high-seas attack on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Africa pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges he hijacked the ship and kidnapped its captain. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse [...]
‘Obama threw me under the bus’, says his ex-Pastor Wright AP/New York, May 18, 2010: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that he is “toxic” to the Obama administration and that the president “threw me under the bus.” In his strongest language to [...]
Nigeria’s president Yar’Adua joins his ancestors…. USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com correspondents in Nigeria can confirm that Nigeria’s severely ill president Umar Yar’Adua has died this night (May 5, 2010, around 9pm Nigerian time). The late president’s spokesperson has also officially confirmed the transition, adding Mrs. Yar’Adua was besides him. He will be buried Thursday. His illness [...]
New, chilling video of Nigerian-born Mutallab training at Al Qaeda camp; making threats…. Special to USAfricaonline.com The U.S news network ABCNews has broadcast a video which shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab training with the Al Qaeda in Yemen. The 23-year-old Nigerian has been held in detention, accused of plotting terror and attempting to explode a bomb on a [...]
Former Nigerian military ruler to run for president By Felix Onuah. Nigeria’s former military leader Ibrahim Babangida is planning a political comeback by running for president nearly 25 years after he first came to power in a bloodless coup, his spokesman said on Monday. Babangida, 68, seized power in the OPEC member state in August [...]
After Ghaddafi’s call for dividing Nigeria into Christian and Muslim republics, Abuja recalls ambassador; Nigerians debate issue Special to USAfricaonline.com Nigeria on Thursday recalled its ambassador from Libya over a diplomatic row caused by controversial Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi’s comments made earlier in the week that Nigeria should be divided into a Christian and a [...]
American middle-class, citizens are casualties of this partisan war on Healthcare By Rev. Nick Clayton Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine The most heated issue in The U.S. Congress and the U.S. Senate these days can easily be determined by the least most politically intelligent members of our society. It’s no secret that the Healthcare Reform [...]
Relevance of George W. Bush into the Obama era and other critical issues in Walter Brasch’s new book Special to USAfricaBOOKS Review, USAfricaonline.com, USAfrica The Newspaper, Houston, CLASSmagazine and The Black Business Journal With wit and wisdom in his latest book titled Sinking the Ship of State, Walter M. Brasch, professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University, author of 16 [...]
