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Bomb blast hits Kwara’s Woro community; multiple deaths reported
A powerful explosion rocked the Woro community in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State early Monday morning (March 23, 2025), leaving several residents dead and many others injured. While…
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The Travails of Nestoil and the Travesties of Courts. By Chidi Odinkalu
Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, contributing analyst to USAfricaonline.com, is a lawyer and a teacher. USAfrica…
Boko Haram threatens to kill 400 women and children if Nigeria refuses $3.5 million ransom
Boko Haram militants have threatened to execute more than 400 women and children they are…
Peter Obi, Eneke the Bird and the Politics of Flight. By Chris Agbedo
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, USA-based newspaper published on the…
The Renewed Dystopia of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (1). By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, contributing analyst to USAfricaonline.com, is a lawyer and a teacher. USAfrica…
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General Lagbaja: Rise, deities of vengeance. By Suyi Ayodele
USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet Ayodele, a columnist for the Nigerian…
Tito Mboweni, South Africa’s first black central bank governor, dies at 65
South Africa’s former finance minister, labor minister, and the first Black governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Tito Mboweni,…
NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo passes away at 58 after battle with brain cancer
Congolese-American basketball legend Dikembe Mutombo, widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders in NBA history, has passed away at…
WIC mourns Jackson Lee for championing “causes that uplifted the marginalized”
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. The World Igbo Congress…
Onyeka Onwenu’s death, Nigerians in sorrowful disbelief
USAfricaonline.com, first Africa-owned,U.S-based newspaper published on the Internet, and USAfrica magazine. Onyeka Onwenu, multi-talented musician, actress, broadcaster, author and activist,…
Ifeanyi Ubah’s death in London throws Nnewi, Nigerian Senate, associates into mourning
USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. The usually vibrant business town of…
Iwuanyanwu: Business mogul, philanthropist and politician
By Fred Chukwuelobe I join the Iwuanyanwu family of Umuohii Atta, Ikeduru LGA, Imo State, in mourning the death…
4 killed in Malawi VP’s funeral convoy
Thousands of people had lined up in the streets to catch a glimpse of the vice president's coffin. A vehicle…