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 [...]
December 15, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
November 28, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
November 28, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
November 26, 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
November 26, 2011 | Posted in
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Hillary Clinton asked U.S diplomats to spy on African leaders, credit cards and military equipments, discloses WikiLeaks of secret cables. Special to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine WASHINGTON DC— The United States has ordered its diplomats to play a larger intelligence role by performing espionage work like obtaining the credit card and frequent flyer numbers of foreign [...]
November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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In South Africa, “we follow a policy that says you must respect the cultures of others. That’s my culture. It does not take anything from me, from my political beliefs and everything, including the belief on the equality of women…. It’s my culture. And I’m sure there are cultures (that) do that kind of thing,” he said.
January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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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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World Cup hoopla: South Africa says no emergency to move games Special to USAfricaonline.com There was never an emergency plan to move the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament if South Africa was not ready, chief organizer Danny Jordaan has said. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said two years ago that the United States was among countries [...]
November 9, 2009 | Posted in
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With the growing discontent, new President Jacob Zuma is pressured to meet his promise of easing inequality in South Africa. There are millions who are still living in poverty 15 years after the end of apartheid. However the government has fallen short in meeting demands for better basic services like water, electricity, health care and education.
October 15, 2009 | Posted in
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In an interview with the Financial Times (London), Nigeria’s leader retired Gen. Obasanjo could not but admit: “In three years I went round the world and did not get anything… I went round the countries in Europe, twice over, I went to Japan, to America, to Canada and got good words… but no action at all.” Yet, if Obasanjo continues his current rate of travel overseas in the remaining 12 months of his presidency, he will make a further 30 trips with the whooping cost of US$6 million to Nigeria’s forlorn economy.
September 23, 2009 | Posted in
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