Nigeria to use intel from U.S. reconnaissance flights to fight jihadists
Nigeria's air force will take the lead from the United States after Washington's Christmas Day strikes on jihadists, making use of US reconnaissance flights to aid its own strikes, a…
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"You are authorized and directed not to seek the death penalty against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to U.S. Attorney in Manhattan Preet…
Body Bombers…Nigerians in Afghanistan
He wanted to know where I came from. When I introduced myself a Nigerian, he got more interested. Lt. Creole believes that if Nigerians are now coming to Afghanistan, the…
Those Republicans? Not Guilty! It’s the opportunists….
Over the past 8 years, Republicans presided of a massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. This led to the intrusive encroachment of government into the…
Exxon Mobil making multi-billion dollar offshore oil deal in Ghana
Kosmos has estimated the Jubilee field could potenitally hold recoverable oil and gas reserves between 650 million and 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Exxon is one of the largest…
Guinea soldiers raping women go viral via cell phones
But what is new is that in Guinea, where cell phones are rapidly outnumbering land line phones, the protesters-turned-victims sent out cell phone photos of rapes in progress by uniformed…
Is District 9 movie a fitting metaphor for the ugliness of Nigeria?
Nigeria is a nation whose ugliness is increasingly troubling! Nigeria’s Information Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili has implicitly accepted that there is something wrong with Nigeria’s image. She hardly accepts that…
Nigerian banks bailout style is too personalized
I would hope that the next time Nigeria is to spend N420 billion that proper steps are taken to protect the interest of Nigerians and the oversight responsibility of the…
USAfricaPOETRY: We are the Africans
USAfricaPOETRY We are the Africans By Konye Obaji Ori Special to USAfricaonline.com We are the Africans We rose with the sun and fell with the rain, Stood with the hills…
African Leaders speak at U.S.-Africa Business Summit
Rwandan President Paul Kagame — whose government has been voted the top world reformer in the recently published World Bank report Doing Business 2010 — said his government and citizens…
Tunisia ranked first in North Africa on good governance
The third annual report published by the Kennedy School of Governance which is part of Harvard’s school of political sciences, focuses this year on “Strengthening Governance in Africa”. The rankings…
Liberia’s Sirleaf demands ECOWAS meeting on Guinea
Liberia's Sirleaf demands ECOWAS meeting on Guinea Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called for "an emergency meeting" of the Economic Community of West African States on the crisis in…
Polanski, Whoopi and amoral Hollywood’s favorite rapist
Weinstein supported a documentary last year arguing that the real injustice came not from the rape, but from the oppression of Polanski by his prosecutors/persecutors in Los Angeles. Weinstein compounded…
Literature, Culture and Development: The African Experience
In all of these essays and more, we can readily discern a tentative, but increasingly confident approach towards a definitive statement concerning what Dr. Madubuike was clearly beginning to be…
Soccer FIFA Under-20: Ghana vs South Africa on Tuesday
Ghana vs South Africa lock horns on Tuesday in FIFA Under-20 World Cup; certain an African team will qualify for Quarter finals Four African teams are still chasing the elusive FIFA…
Pope launches synod on Africa’s issues until Oct 25
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…
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