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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.”
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, wire services are reporting that 3 Fulani [...]
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 [...]
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.
“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.
“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 [...]
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 [...]
