President Jonathan says “We will dialogue” with Boko Haram violent Islamic sect By Tim Cocks, Joe Brock and Felix Onuah Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of Nigeria360, UNNalumni, IgboEvents and CLASSmagazine Houston. Abuja Jan 26, 2012 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan challenged the violent Islamist Boko Haram sect on Thursday January 26 to identify themselves and state clearly their demands [...]
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Jonathan’s Boko Haram problem and firing of Ringim By Chido Nwangwu Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of Nigeria360, UNNalumni, IgboEvents and CLASSmagazine Houston. USAfrica: First fact, removing all niceties, former chief of the Nigerian Police Hafiz Ringim’s failure to decisively defeat or contain Boko Haram was increasingly seen as President Jonathan’s direct problem and failure. Worse, with the brazen and bold terror [...]
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180 killed in latest north Nigeria Islamist sect attacks in Kano. Update on Sunday January 22, 2012: USAfrica has increased the casualty count from the latest attacks by the Boko Haram sect to 180. Higher numbers are expected. Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of Nigeria360, UNNalumni, IgboEvents and CLASSmagazine Houston. By The Associated Press, reporters Ibrahim Garba (in Kano) and [...]
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Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of Nigeria360, UNNalumni, IgboEvents and CLASSmagazine Houston USAfrica, January 16, 2012: After 3 major rounds of unsuccessful negotiations between organized labor and government in Nigeria — running for almost 10 days — the country’s President Goodluck Jonathan is addressing the citizens, at this time 7am (Nigerian time) to inform them of his key decisions regarding the crippling [...]
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Superstar singer Flavour makes hit video on Nigeria’s fuel subsidy removal agony Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of Nigeria360, UNNalumni, IgboEvents and CLASSmagazine Houston USAfrica: One of Nigeria’s top Afro-pop superstars, Flavour, has produced a brand new video on the crises following the decision of the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the fuel subsidy. The song which is titled [...]
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DEADLOCK: Nigerians get 48hrs “to rest, restock” before threat of more crippling strike against fuel subsidy withdrawal Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of Nigeria360, UNNalumni, IgboEvents and CLASSmagazine Houston USAfrica, Houston, Lagos and Abuja: After a few hours of negotiation and reassessment of their positions on Thursday January 12 and into the early hours of Friday January 13, 2012, Nigeria’s embattled [...]
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“We see the nation heading towards a civil war…. It is going that way. We no longer can pretend it’s not…. When you’ve got a situation where a bunch of people can go into a place of worship and open fire through the windows, you’ve reached a certain dismal watershed in the life of that nation.”
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“Those who oppose it don’t have the right information. Some of them know better but support the demonstrations. The demonstrators should call on their new friends, namely the Soyinkas and the Babangidas to ask the House to demand that the proper appropriation/law for subsidy be funded.”
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The rising demand and voices demanding more decisive and urgent action by Nigeria’s President Jonathan to tackle the sponsoring foundations of the radical, violent Islamic group Boko Haram has added those of the Igbo American Alliance Against Genocide (IAAAG), the U.S-based international group of African and American professionals.
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BECAUSE OF BIAFRA. By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of IgboEvents, Nigeria360, UNNalumni, CLASSmagazine & PhotoWorks.TV We fought the world, A world that disinherits Stock damned as original sin Because of the war on Aburi We stand sentenced To pound murky nooks And hoary chambers From the gorge of ancestry In the brood of blood To [...]
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Ojukwu’s family says Feb 2 burial date not finalized; Nnewi and Igbo tradition to be followed before fixing date Special to USAfricaonline.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of IgboEvents, Nigeria360 and UNNalumni, CLASSmagazine and PhotoWorks.TV By Chido Nwangwu. As the world was informed by the Anambra State Governor Peter Obi that February 2, 2012 will be the burial of the former leader of [...]
An ode to Emeka Ojukwu By Okey Mbonu Special to USAfricaonline.com , CLASSmagazine and the USAfrica-powered e-groups of IgboEvents, AnambraPolitics, Nigeria360 and UNNalumni Dike Di Oranma! Dike Di Oranma!! Dike Di Oranmaaaaa!!! We called you one last time and you refuse to answer us Are you angry at us, our Warrior? Are you upset with us, our Prince? Are you afraid to [...]
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Ojukwu’s a titan who sacrificed his possessions to secure a safe space for his people. By Prof. Okey Ndibe. Special to USAfricaonline.com , CLASSmagazine and the USAfrica-powered e-groups of IgboEvents, AnambraPolitics, Nigeria360 and UNNalumni USAfrica, November 28, 2011: A telephone call startled me awake at 3:41 a.m. last Saturday. Still gripped by sleep, I fumbled in the darkness until I palmed [...]
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USAfrica Exclusive: OJUKWU on Biafra, Nigeria’s problems, Mandela, Clinton and exile By Chido Nwangwu; Special and Exclusive interview of July 1999 for USAfrica The Newspaper (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com . First posted to USAfricaonline.com on February 14, 2003 www.usafricaonline.com/ojukwuchido.html and updated upon his death today Saturday November 26, 2011 www.usafricaonline-com/ojukwu-biafra-interview-july1999-by-chido-nwangwu The man [...]
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Odumegwu Ojukwu is dead; Long live Ojukwu; millions mourn USAfricaonline.com: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, former President and Commander-in-Chief of the defunct Republic of Biafra (1967-1970) — out of eastern Nigeria — has died in a London hospital today, Saturday November 26, 2011. He passed on after a long battle with eye problems which were complicated [...]
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Literary giant Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina dies in U.S By Chido Nwangwu. Special to USAfrica multimedia networks (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com November 8, 2010: The distinguished and prolific scholar of English language, English literature, African literature and general arts Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina , USAfrica and USAfricaonline.com learned a few minutes ago from close family sources, has died [...]
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“Although he (Prof. Okafor) is our son, according to our Onitsha custom, he committed an abomination and cannot be buried at home in Onitsha”, said one of the cultural leaders of Onitsha who chatted with me/USAfricaonline.com with a request for anonymity given the sensitive nature of the issues. The repeated, summary phrase from the Onitsha indigenes at home and abroad whom I spoke with is: abomination! The question, then remained, what do they do next, back home? Refuse him burial at home in Onitsha? Or give him a less than significant, less than standard transition for an Onitsha son and scholar of Prof. Okafor’s pre-murder-suicide status?
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TRAGEDY: Prof. Okafor shoots his wife, self dead in murder-suicide in U.S. Special to USAfricaonline.com, Nigeria360 e-group, IgboEvents e-group and CLASSmagazine, Houston. One of world’s leading poets of Nigerian descent Prof. Chukwudubem (Dubem) Agha Okafor, 64, shot his wife, Cheryl V. Okafor, 37, then turned the gun on himself after an argument inside his relative’s [...]
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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 areas in the Ejama-Ebubu community in Tai Eleme Local Council [...]
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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 [...]
