U.S., Nigeria diverge in details over air strikes targeting terrorists
AFP, Abuja: Immediately following surprise U.S. strikes targeting militants in Nigeria, it remained unclear who or what was actually hit as Washington and Abuja told slightly different stories. Complicating matters…
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USAfrica: Deprive politicians stolen mandates from Nigeria’s 2023 Elections. By Nkem Ekeopara
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, first African-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. Nkem Ekeopara is a contributing editor of USAfricaonline.com Nigeria's February-March 2023 elections and votes collation…
USAfrica: Fox News, lies, defamation and Trump. By Chido Nwangwu
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. By Chido Nwangwu. Follow on Twitter @Chido247 For the consequence of its gross distortion…
Gunmen Attack Village, Kill 33 in northwest Nigeria
AFP: Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders have killed 33 people in an attack on a farming village in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, where inter-communal herder-farmer violence is common, a…
Hoodlums set BRT bus on fire in Lagos
After colliding with a commercial bus and killing the driver, a BRT vehicle was set on fire on Wednesday (19 April 2023) morning. On the Oworonshoki Expressway in Lagos State,…
1.15trn transactions in March 2023 record by PoS operators
Point of Sale terminals generated N1.15 trillion in transactions in March 2023 as more Nigerians adopt electronic transactions. This was stated in the most recent report released on Monday by…
Election crisis: INEC declares Fintiri winner in Adamawa guber election.
The governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, was declared the winner of the state governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday (Tuesday, 18 April 2023). Fintiri declaration…
USAfrica: Nigeria’s politics, a sham due to corruption, ethnic factors. By Bishop Felix Orji
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, first African-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. Dr. Felix Orji, OSB, is the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of All Nations, a…
Awolowo and his modern-day ‘disciples’. By Suyi Ayodele
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first African-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. Suyi Ayodele, a columnist for the Nigerian Tribune, is a contributor to USAfricaonline.com “…I…
USAfrica: Independents to contest elections under new law in South Africa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a law allowing independent candidates to run in national elections without having to be affiliated to a political party, his office has announced.…
Fighting in Sudan; death toll rises to 250
AFP: Explosions rocked Sudan's capital Khartoum on Monday (April 17, 2023) as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day, with the…
Rejoinder by Dele Alake to “Peter Obi, the APC and Looming Tyranny”
Aleke, media adviser and spokesperson for the Bola Tinubu presidential campaign 2023, was an editor of the National Concord newspaper in Lagos. Nothing captures and portrays the crisis of credibility…
Fighting in Sudan, at least, 56 civilians killed
AFP: Fighting in Sudan raged for a second day Sunday after battles between rival generals in control since their 2021 coup killed at least 56 civilians and wounded hundreds more…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s burden mounts into 2000 with rehash of murder charges, crimes
If her former bodyguard and confessed murderer Jerry Richardson gets amnesty, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former leading symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle, may yet walk another perilous path of trial and prosecution,…
‘OBIdients’, Gangster Conspiracy and struggle for power. By Chidi Amuta
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. Dr. Chidi Amuta is Executive Editor of USAfrica, since 1993 Of all the cards that I carry around with me, none is a political party membership card. I have never and do not belong to any political party in Nigeria. Nor have I ever belonged to one or aspired to belong to any. My attitude to political party membership is pretty much the same as that towards organized religion. I am a Christian of the Anglican variety by birth and baptism. I however respect and admire those who go to either mosque or church every week. My liberal attitude to organized everything has nothing to do with either my estimation of those who join and lead political parties or subscribe to organized religion. My option is more a product of education and general humanistic orientation. I was trained to think freely and roam the forest of global culture and history for ideas and currents that can enhance my humanity and help me contribute to the society in which I live. By instinct therefore, I have come to respect the choices that different people make for themselves in the context of a free society. My friends and associates around the world therefore range from devout Moslems to committed Christians, Hindus, atheists and Himalayan Budhist monks. From each of the belief systems of those I interact with, I find something of benefit through a compulsively liberal attitude and mindset. In the current Nigerian post election climate, something unfortunate has happened. A group of citizens are being branded, vilified, spat upon by all manner of tyrannical political spokespersons. They have been joined by public opinion autocrats and disguised entrepreneurs. Suddenly, it is now fashionable to abuse, condemn and generally vitiate the Obidients. All it has taken to initiate this shift in attitude is for INEC to announce the result of the last presidential elections in favour of Mr. Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress. Both APC official jackals and those who want to ingratiate themselves with the winning squad have since been falling over each other to win the trophy of ‘Obidient bashers or killers’. Tragically, even otherwise respectable citizens with previous records of sanity and respectability have joined the fray of frying the Obidients. Someone has described them as the most despicable group ever to come to earth. Another has described them as a mob of miscreants. Yet more desperate people have quickly said that the Obidients are the political arm of IPOB while Mr. Peter Obi is a patron of and sponsor rolled into one. An informed source told me that one of the more conspicuous latter day Obidient bashers had actually written two different congratulatory messages while waiting for the outcome of the presidential elections of 25th February. One letter profusely congratulated Peter Obi for upturn ing the long standing political behemoth of old Nigeria and ushering in a new world led by the youth. The other letter was a subdued congratulation to Bola Tinubu, his tribesman, for a victory much deserved and a pledge to do whatever is necessary to ensure that his imminent reign was successful and free from distractions. Rewind to the just ended campaign season. Literally out of the political blues, Mr. Peter Obi emerged onto the political scene. In the campaign season that followed, he laid out his vision for a new Nigeria free from the familiar blights of what has come to be accepted as normal Nigerian politics. His message, largely addressed to the youth and all tose left behind and locked out by the old order, caught on like wild fire. Obi’s adherents voluntarily and informally assumed the broad name of “Obidients”. Trust the creativity of Nigerians in all such situations.…
Yoruba community will not be Distracted; there’s no Trouble in the House of Oduduwa
Prior to the 1999 Atlanta Egbe Yoruba National's convention, several major decisions were made by YOO association. One of them was that if no positive resolution was made with respect…
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