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DALLAS - The DFW International alliance hosted its annual multi cultural dinner with 23 serving mayors in attendance. The event attracted hundreds of residents of the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex from multi racial ethnic origins.

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Guests were entertained by Mariachi los Reyes de Dallas just as the parade of Nations commenced. Cathey [...]

FORT WORTH - The Black Women Lawyers Association of Tarrant County hosted its annual “hotter than July” scholarship fundraiser at the YWCA building in Fort Worth, Texas. The Fundraiser featured the L. Clifford Davis Legal Excellence Award and the Ruth E. Roberts Community Service Award presentation.
The event which was literally hotter than July based on [...]

Washington, DC - The United States and Nigeria recently signed an agreement, setting up a bi-national commission aimed at helping the West African state promote good governance and fight corruption.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the U.S.-Nigeria relationship “absolutely critical.”.

The agreement signed by Secretary Clinton and Nigerian Secretary to the Government of the Federation [...]

ABUJA - Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan was this morning sworn in as President and Head of State a few hours after the death of former President, Musa Yar’Adua.
Jonathan took the oath of office at the Presidential Villa with members of the Executive Council of the Federation, some state governors, and ambassadors in attendance.
The ceremony [...]

President Barack Obama ushered in the new era with an unprecedented, 47-nation summit to begin to confront this ultimate threat of nuclear terror.
It was an important first step. From the highest levels, it conferred top priority on what is planned as a continuing effort to better marshal global resources to keep the stuff of nuclear [...]

WHITE HOUSE - In 2010, seventeen countries across sub-Saharan Africa celebrate fifty years of independence.  In honor of this important historic moment; in acknowledgement of the extraordinarily young demographic profile of the region; and as part of an effort to forge strong, forward-looking partnerships in the years ahead, President Obama will host a forum in [...]

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – Masked armed men guard Nigeria’s elite in this volatile oil-rich region, but the country’s middle class can only lock their doors and pray each time their children leave home.
Kidnappers who once targeted foreign oil workers are now abducting children — including one as young as 8 months old — for whatever [...]

Abuja - The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday held a valedictory session for the late President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, with the Federal Government announcing the naming of the ever-busy Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road, currently under reconstruction to a 10-lane highway and the Katsina International Airport after the late President. The memo for the [...]

WASHINGTON, DC - Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan visited the Nigerian Chancery in Washington DC en route Nigeria after a very busy visit to the United States of America. He was in the US to attend the Nuclear Security Summit. As expected, Nigerians turned out en mass to participate at the reception ceremony.  Dr. Jonathan [...]

EFCC: No one is above the law
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  Mrs.  Farida Waziri has said no offender would escape the long arm of the commission, as nobody is above the laws of the land.
Fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja, Waziri vowed that her commission would “get these people” who [...]