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Africans, are gradually climbing their ways into top echelon of leadership in America, especially the corporate world. One of the trailblazers is Dr. Akinyinka Akinyele, District Manager for Chicago Postal Service. After a couple of changes because of his tight schedule, he eventually spoke to our editor, Joseph Omoremi, on what is it being the headsman, areas of opportunities, race relations and his Christian values. It is an exciting reading. Excepts: Inquirer: We don’t have many district managers around. Yours quickly comes to mind in Chicagoland? Dr. Akinyele: America basically is a land of opportunity. Our preparation, when it eventually…

“We are here to solidify the relationship between Lagos and Chicago. Chicago is a sister city to Lagos and we are here to build on the existing relationship with the hope of turning Lagos into Chicago,” Nigeria’s monarch Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos told The Chicago Inquirer on Monday. In his first international outing as the Oba of Lagos, the monarch expressed satisfaction with the visit. “I met the mayor, city and Cook County officials, Lagosians and friends and Africans from all walks of lives,” the Oba said. He appealed to the Cook County board President John Stroger, to make…

by Joseph Omoremi The world stood still at the Harambee Hall, Chicago when the recently crowned Lagos monarch Oba Rilwan Akiolu was ushered into the main hall, venue of the 60th birthday party of Dr. Nurudeen Olowopopo. Long before the arrival of the king and Gov. Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State, the main entrance to the hall was jammed by gatecrashers who were politely turned back by security men and police officers while invited guests with valid invitation cards streamed in continuously. Nigerians, nay Africans, decked in their glittering babanriga, Senegalese and other native attires and costumes were a…

Dan Anyiam planned to create a standing Feeder team to boost the Green Eagles. The idea was about bringing the best young legs from the four Regions and camp them in Lagos. Chief Eddie Enwere was one of those selected from the Eastern Region. Anyiam gave the team a name. The seniors were known as Green Eagles. The Junior Eagles became Federal Star Club. Enwere lived in Aba but was a student of National High School, Oguta owned by Chief H. P. Udom. Enwere said: “I was in the team Dan Anyiam put up in 1965 in the bid to…

In March 2004, we published an interview with Septuagenarian David Olupitan on the genesis of mistrust between recent African immigrants and African Americans as well as Blacks born outside the shores of the Black continent. A Jamaican American journalist and head of Sovereign African Diaspora Nation in New York, Neferrari Ahmose, read the interview and disagreed on some reasons adduced in the interview. She gave what she perceived as the missing links in another interview with Joseph Omoremi, editor of The Chicago Inquirer, during the meeting of Association of African Journalists in Nigerian House, lower Manhattan New York. Excerpts: Inquirer:…

by Will Weissert and Marc Levy COATESVILLE, Pa. — An election year weighted by economic turmoil, elimination of federal abortion rights and broad concerns about the future of democracy concluded with a final full day of campaigning Monday by leaders of both parties urgently appealing to their supporters. President Joe Biden was holding an evening rally in Maryland, where Democrats have one of their best opportunities to reclaim a Republican-held governor’s seat. That was consistent with Biden’s late-campaign strategy of sticking largely to his party’s strongholds rather than stumping in more competitive territory, where control of Congress may ultimately be…

by Scott McFetridge DES MOINES, Iowa — Millions of lottery players around the country will try their luck again Monday night as they vie for an estimated $1.9 billion Powerball jackpot that dwarfs all previous prizes by hundreds of millions of dollars. The jackpot is nearly $400 million larger than the previous recordjackpot and will keep growing until someone wins the prize. Only four previous jackpots have topped $1 billion, but none of those are close to the current prize, which started at $20 million back on Aug. 6 and over three winless months has grown ever more massive. A…

by Jeff Amy ATLANTA  — Big money continues to roll into Georgia’s governor’s race even as Republican incumbent Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams have already blown through the records they set in 2018. Abrams has raised nearly $98 million, according to reports filed with the state ethics commission, while Kemp has raised more than $69 million. Abrams and Kemp filed their final periodic finance reports of the campaign Tuesday, for contributions through Oct. 25, but continue to file supplemental reports of large donations. Since Oct. 1, Abrams has received more than $14 million in cash and in-kind donations,…

by Peter Prengaman SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  — The first full day of the year’s most important summit on climate change, known as COP27, got underway on Monday with urgent calls by leaders to slash greenhouse gas emissions as the planet warms and severe weather events become more frequent and destructive. Scores of presidents, along with thousands of diplomats, climate negotiators, business leaders, activists and journalists descended on the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to take part in discussions and negotiations slated to go through Nov. 18. “Climate change will never stop without our intervention,” said Egyptian President Abdel…

The problem of ancestry and original homeland is becoming a serious cause for concern for most African Americans. Courtesy of a special DNA test, interested African Americans can now trace their roots. In this interview with Editor of The Chicago Inquirer, Joseph Omoremi, an African American DNA expert and University of Chicago professor, Dr. Rich A. Kittles, bares his mind on how his research is providing opportunities for eager African Americans to trace their roots and why it is important for them to catch on this unique experience. Excerpts: Inquirer: What is the essence of DNA test? Dr. Kittles: As…