U.S. Immigration: USCIS cuts reuse of photos to 36 months
Special to USAfricanonline.com The U.S. immigration agency has revised its biometric policy, limiting reuse of photographs to 3 years and ending acceptance of self-submitted images. The White House characterizes the…
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Why I'm seeking Lowell's council seat: Ben Opara campaigns in Massachussetts USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine's Publisher Chido Nwangwu interviewed Benjamin Tyndale Opara, an aspirant in 2009 for a seat in the…
Guinea junta must resign before talks; opposition demands
Rights groups and the United Nations say more than 150 people were killed and women were raped by soldiers in the crackdown. The authorities have given a death toll of…
Why the Republican Party, conservative values are dying
After returning from a recent Republican Conference where I was the keynote speaker, I couldn’t help but to notice that the average age of most of the attendees was 60…
U.S won’t seek death for Africa embassy bombings suspect
"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
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Is District 9 movie a fitting metaphor for the ugliness of Nigeria?
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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
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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…
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