Donald Trump installed retired Marine Corps general John Kelly as his new chief of staff Monday, hoping to bring order and discipline to a White House beset by scandal, infighting, low approval ratings and legislative defeats. Trump confidently predicted the 67-year-old combat veteran — who impressed with a no-nonsense six-month stint at the Department of … Read more
Foul-mouthed spin doctor Anthony Scaramucci was fired as White House communications director Monday, just 10 days after being named to the post and hours after Donald Trump’s new chief of staff was sworn in. The 53-year-old New Yorker — whose vitriolic rant against colleagues gained him global notoriety — got the boot shortly after retired … Read more
The Gambia’s justice minister has promised a new constitution to be voted on by referendum as the tiny west African country transitions from the long rule of former strongman Yahya Jammeh. Attorney General and Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou said Thursday the new national charter would entirely replace the 1997 version written largely to consolidate Jammeh’s … Read more
Actress Keri Russell, best known for her role as a ruthless KGB operative in the long-running series “The Americans,” was honored on Tuesday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 41-year-old actress told AFP she was awestruck to receive the 2,613th star on the famous sidewalk alongside other celebrities such as Judy … Read more
Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party in New Zealand unveiled plans Friday to contest the September general election, but the mogul, who is fighting extradition to the United States, will not be involved. In a statement on its website, the Internet Party said Dotcom had resigned from its executive committee and was no longer involved in operational … Read more
Up to 20 CIA informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times reports, damaging US information-gathering in the country for years. It is not clear whether the CIA was hacked or whether a mole helped the Chinese to identify the agents, officials told the paper. They … Read more
The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump’s campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation. The dossier has also been cited by FBI Director James Comey in some of his briefings to … Read more
Former Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor has questioned the objectivity of analysis made by the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) with regards to Government of Ghana’s deal with AMERI Energy, adding that they are operatives of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and not politically neutral. Dr Donkor had earlier mounted a strong defence … Read more
An Accra high court yesterday granted an application barring journalists from covering the evidence of a Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) operative in the trial of Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, former Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) and 34 others implicated in the massive fraud that hit the Scheme. The court, presided over by … Read more
The US Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination for attorney general, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, by a vote of 52 to 47. The confirmation follows a series of divisive hearings during which Democrats attacked Mr Sessions’ record on civil rights. Democrat Elizabeth Warren was sanctioned after she was accused of impugning Mr Sessions’ reputation. … Read more
A Russian technology executive has sued BuzzFeed and its editor Ben Smith for publishing the unverified Trump dossier, calling it “perhaps one of the most reckless and irresponsible moments in modern ‘journalism.’” Within hours of the lawsuit’s filing, BuzzFeed blacked out the name of Aleksej Gubarev in the dossier on its site and apologized. “We … Read more
As the popular American maxim goes: “Whatever goes around, comes around.” Simply put, the current onslaught of violence raging across the country did not explode out of a vacuum. It has its “ancient” origins in the wanton acts of violence provoked by the Rawlings-led Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), during the late 1970s; and then … Read more
I am not here to argue pointlessly about whether the letter dismissing the Mahama-appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the former Ghana Cocoa-Marketing Board (CMB), presently renamed Cocobod – for whatever the latter re-labeling may be worth – could not have been written in a more diplomatic or “polite” language, as preferred by Mr. K. … Read more
Whoever these thugs and vandals are who have reportedly gone on the rampage and are physically assaulting members, supporters and sympathizers of the salubriously and deservedly defeated Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC), should immediately desist from the same (See “Arrest Those Attacking NDC Members – Mahama” Citifmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 12/11/16). Who really knows? It could … Read more
With hours to go before Americans vote, Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to the final Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. Her chances are roughly similar to last week’s odds, and any upset by Trump on Tuesday depends … Read more
Donald Trump’s October Surprise is so explicit, shocking, offensive and vile that even he felt the need to apologize — defiantly. In a video released after midnight Saturday, Trump expressed regret for stunning comments that surfaced Friday about women. “Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” he said. “I said … Read more
As the December 7 Day-of-Reckoning inexorably dawns on them, the leaders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have plunged themselves into panic mode. Now, having miserably failed to pooh-pooh the genius of the Oxbridge-educated Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, these desperate societal sponges and thoroughgoing economic parasites have resorted to earnestly pleading with the former Deputy-Governor of … Read more
Franklin Cudjoe is founding President and CEO of IMANI Center for Policy By Dade Afre Akufu On Saturday September 17, 2016, a dear friend M. Kwadwo Nyamba came to the defense of the “good” work of IMANI Africa, a political think tank, in Ghana. Why? The “think tank” had come under heavy criticism after it … Read more
Having received a ‘holy call’, Harry Sarfo left the comfort of his home in the upper class city of Bremen in 2015 to join the Islamic State in Syria. In order to prove worthy of his calling, Mr. Sarfo drove four straight days before he could reach the confines of IS. His efforts were met … Read more