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Vacancy available:
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Fundraising Appeal;
Support 70 yrs old stranded trafficking victim return
home to Nigeria
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Press Freedom under Attack in Nigeria |
May 9, 2008---The sight of stern looking policemen armed with what appears to be sub-machine gun while arresting reporter of Leadership Newspaper from his office in Nigeria offends the sensibility of many Nigerians in United States.
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Africans In America, Inc. Mourns late FPRO, CP Iwendi |
May 6, 2008---Africans In America, Inc. (AIA), a leading human rights organization addressing social issues concerning the larger African immigrant community in United States has expressed condolences to the government and people of Nigeria; particularly, the Nigeria Police Force on the reported sudden death of former Force Public Relation Officer (FPRO), Commissioner of Police (CP) Hyacinth A. Iwendi, (aka. Popularly called Haz Iwendi).
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Police Arrest Couple For Selling Their Twin Boys |
May 2, 2008---Detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Lagos have arrested a couple who sold their twins to a syndicate who specialized in selling kids in London.
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President’s daughter and Senator is ‘rubbishing’ the name of Nigeria law enforcement and the lawmakers |
April 22, 2008---There are indications that the actions of daughter of Nigeria's ex-military and civilian leader former Army General Olusegun Obasanjo may be denting the image of Nigeria law enforcement and her fellow lawmakers.
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Nigerians In United States apprehensive over the health of President Yar’Adua |
April 21, 2008---Nigerians residing in the United States of America are very apprehensive since the news of degenerating health of President Yar’Adua prompting his emergency trip to Germany for treatment broke out on Saturday April 12 2008.
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Nigerians in United States react to the death of top Government official back home |
April 2, 2008---Nigerians in United States are sharply reacting to the death of Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Callus Enoma who was declared missing on Sunday night and found dead on Monday afternoon in a hotel room in the state capital, Benin City.
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Africans In America, Inc. invited to New York Manhattan Borough President‘s Immigrant Rights Task Force meeting |
March 8, 2008---Africans In America, Inc. participated in New York Manhattan Borough President‘s Immigrant Rights Task Force meeting held on Thursday March 27, 2008 in New York City.
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Safety tips for foreign-based Nigerians visiting home (Part 1 and 2) |
March 8, 2008---Apologies that this column had to be rested for two Saturdays. I was preoccupied with the obsequies of my late mother, Mrs. Cecilia Edowaye Ekhomu. Besides, it fell to me to render an urgent security assistance to my school mate who had come to bury his father and was under a serious security threat.
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Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama, not ‘Osama’ |
February 27, 2008---Following general mis-reporting by the news media recently about the turban attire and white dress worn in parts of African nations, Africans In America wish to educate the public, particularly the ‘ignorant media’ on the issues and dress code in the African continent.
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Human trafficking suspected in the conviction of Nigerian former football international Godwin Okpara. |
February 27, 2008---Last week, the media were awash with news report of Nigerian former football international Godwin Okpara sentenced for about 10 to 13 years in a French jail for the rape, torture and enslavement of his ‘adopted daughter’.
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Nigerian leaders die in auto Crash |
February 19, 2008---News-reports coming out of Nigeria indicate that The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Solomon Giwa-Amu has died in an automobile accident on early morning of Monday February 18, 2008.
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Nigeria: Return of Slavery to Country? |
February 14, 2008---When the British, Nigeria's former colonial master, outlawed the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 because it considered it evil, it certainly did not know that in the 21st century post-independent Nigeria, some form of slavery would still be going on. In those ancient slavery times, it was sheer force, extravagant lifestyle of certain African traditional rulers and ignorance that led Africa and Nigeria into slavery. And Nigeria lost the cream of her human beings in slavery.
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Nigerian Extradited To U.S. For Abusing House Help |
February 13, 2008---A Nigerian man, formerly of Germantown, Maryland, United States wanted since 2003 in connection to the human trafficking and abuse of a teenage girl was extradited from the West African country on Monday.
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Trial of Charles Ghankay Taylor presents an opportunity for liberation of Africa |
January 17, 2008---Africans In America News Watch investigation reveals that Charles Ghankay Taylor, also known as (aka) Charles Ghankay Macarthur Dapkpana Taylor, former guerilla leader and warlord who later seized power and became the President of Liberia a small West African nation, who had great access to diamond-rich Sierra Leone and now standing trial in Hague has the potential of solving many questions about the key actors responsible for socio-economics, socio-political and other crises facing continental Africa today.
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