var bdv_ref_pid=229404;var bdv_ref_type=’i';var bdv_ref_option=’a';var bdv_ref_eb=’0′;var bdv_ref_gif_id=’ref_180x60_black’;var bdv_ref_width=180;var bdv_ref_height=60; affiliate program Shell gets N15b oil pollution ruling against its Nigeria operations. Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston. By Chido Nwangwu (in Houston) and Obinwa Nnaji (USAfrica Executive Editor in Lagos). For an oil spill in the 1970 which affected about 256 hectares of land and water [...]
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POLLUTION, OIL and NIGERIA: LIQUID GOLD OR PETRO-GAS CURSE? By Chido Nwangwu, Publisher of USAfrica. Special to USAfrica The Newspaper, Houston (first written/published on October 19, 1998) and USAfricaonline.com http://www.usafricaonline.com/chido.petrogas.html updated http://www.usafricaonline.com/2010/07/06/petrogas-pollution-nigeria-chido-october1998 The news report by USAfricaonline.com about the July 5, 2010, ruling by a federal court in Asaba (Delta State of Nigeria) which awarded N15.4 [...]
var bdv_ref_pid=229404;var bdv_ref_type=’i';var bdv_ref_option=’a';var bdv_ref_eb=’0′;var bdv_ref_gif_id=’ref_180x60_black’;var bdv_ref_width=180;var bdv_ref_height=60; affiliate program New conflicts, killings in Jos; Fulani herdsmen vs christians Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston In March and April 2010, there were renewed cries of religious and ethnic killings of hundreds of christians around Jos by Islamic, Fulani herdsmen of northern-middle-belt Nigeria. This weekend of [...]
May 22, 2010 | Posted in
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Still marching on, at 80…. By Mazi Emmanuel A. C. Orji Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine, Houston 1929 is significant in Nigerian history as the year of the Aba Women Riot against British taxation. Internationally, it was the year of the great depression as well as the year that Vatican City became an independent state [...]
March 4, 2010 | Posted in
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The Justice Department said evidence at trial proved that Emmanuel Nnaji sexually assaulted the widow and made her fearful of informing authorities. “Holding other human beings in servitude against their will is a violation of human rights that will not be tolerated in our free society,” Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the department’s civil rights division, said in a statement.
February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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“The repeated calamities that befall Haiti prompt me to propose a radical solution — to take measures to create somewhere in Africa… the conditions for Haitians to return,” President Abdoulaye Wade told France Info radio.
January 17, 2010 | Posted in
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“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 [...]
January 17, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
HAITI DISASTER: 200,000 may be dead after 7.0 Earthquake; how to help, now… Special to USAfricaonline.com, USAfricaNewsWire, CLASSmagazine, The Black Business Journal and the IgboEvents e-group Houston, Jan 12, 2010: Merely viewing the images/video of distress and decimation of life and environment, Haiti’s shattering earthquake of January 12, 2010 and its aftershock seem like a filmic creation of [...]
Nigeria is today NOT making a major impact, on its region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa that it was making before. Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?… But I wonder if all this emphasis on Nigeria’s importance creates a tendency to inflate Nigeria’s opinion of its own invulnerability. Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they have – many of which we have talked about: disgraceful lack of infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal with the underlying problems in the Niger Delta, the failure to consolidate democracy – and somehow will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important.
January 8, 2010 | Posted in
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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, [...]
December 1, 2009 | Posted in
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Pope launches synod on Africa’s woes until October 25 Special to USAfricaonline.com Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday celebrated a special mass to open a month-long synod of African bishops to discuss their continent’s conflicts, social injustice and grinding poverty. Saint Peter’s Basilica swelled to the strains of a hymn in the Congolese language Lingala, while [...]
October 5, 2009 | Posted in
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The University will hold a welcoming event for Achebe on Nov. 10, Rose said, which will feature his newest book, “The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays.”
September 22, 2009 | Posted in
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