Since his mannerisms make him out as country or – as we say in Africa – a villager, his case may be more of naivety rather than good acting. If that is true, then the problem is his gullibility (to others or to self) that the means he intended and intends to use to reach … Read more
Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general, after she questioned the legality of his immigration ban. Sally Yates, who had been appointed under Barack Obama, earlier ordered justice department lawyers not to enforce the president’s executive order. Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, replaced her as acting attorney general. … Read more
Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general, after she questioned the legality of his immigration ban. Sally Yates, who had been appointed under Barack Obama, earlier ordered justice department lawyers not to enforce the president’s executive order. Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, replaced her as acting attorney general. … Read more
A Nebraska state senator has resigned amid a political row sparked by a photo he posted on Twitter mocking women protesting against Donald Trump. Bill Kintner retweeted a post implying that three female protesters were too unattractive to be sexually assaulted. The tweet drew criticism from other lawmakers, who threatened to submit legislation to boot … Read more
Today the subject of my pen which Western sympathizers may call it vitriol is the inscrutable TROIKA. I have written before about it and I am still continuing until TRIOKA stop all its ill plans against South Sudan. The self-anointed role that the United States, Norway and the United Kingdom have given themselves as “Masters … Read more
NOT POLITICS AS USUAL: Loyalty over competence; a candid review of president nana addo’s appointments. 18/01/2017 All over the world loyalty and competence are the two most critical and potent factors political leaders consider before appointing officials to serve in their government after an electoral victory. They are the most critical because a President must … Read more
All over the world loyalty and competence are the two most critical and potent factors political leaders consider before appointing officials to serve in their government after an electoral victory. They are the most critical because a President must first of all have some considerable level of trust and confidence in an individual before considering … Read more
About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the … Read more
“…Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have sway’d Or wak’d to ecstasy the living lyre.. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard MUCH INK WILL CONTINUE to be spilled (or in modern technological world without the use of ink, … Read more
A leading US Republican says she fears for the future of her seven grandchildren with Donald Trump in the White House. Christine Todd Whitman, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush, accused Mr Trump of ignoring compelling science. And she warned that his threat to scrap climate protection policies puts … Read more
Peaceful presidential transitions are difficult to execute, particularly when they involve a defeated incumbent. As usual, the Americans have the most documentation of transitions. While, for the most part, they have gone well, there have been memorable hiccups. In 1800, after the bitterly contested election between Adams and Jefferson, President Adams made some midnight appointments, … Read more
It is particularly difficult to foretell what the foreign policy of a US president-elect will be. We have plenty of examples of US presidents who – after coming into office – did not follow through on their electoral campaign pledges. Even though Obama did actually conclude the agreement with Iran – as promised during his … Read more
Flagbearer of the United Front Party has vowed to increase the ruling National Democratic Congress’s one million votes target in the Ashanti Region by an additional five hundred thousand votes in the region. Nana Agyenim Boateng, popularly known as Gyataba made the pledge in an exclusive interview with Kwame Adinkrah, host of Abusua Nkomo during … Read more
The title of this piece conveys a strident mood. But the angst is no longer because a bozo of catholic proportion emerged as the US president-Elect. It is not because of the reality that a labile character is set to become the leader of the free world. It has nothing to do with the fact … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has said it was a “great honour” to meet President Barack Obama for transition talks at the White House. Mr Obama said he was “encouraged” by their “excellent” and “wide-ranging” conversation, lasting over an hour. During the election campaign, Mr Trump vowed to dismantle Mr Obama’s legacy and he has previously … Read more
In my article four years ago on the US presidential election of 2012, I mentioned several factors that could determine the winner. The candidates, Baraka Obama and Mitts Romney, were known politicians and each had a political record to review and judge. Moreover, their individual party was united and determined to win. Although the polls … Read more
FBI director James Comey has defended his decision to brief US lawmakers on FBI moves to look again into Hillary Clinton’s email use, US media say. Not making it public would be “misleading”, he said. He was aware of a risk of being “misunderstood”, given that the FBI does not know the significance of the … Read more
Hillary Clinton has urged the FBI to explain without delay why it is carrying out a new investigation into her use of emails. Americans “deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately,” she said. The FBI says it has new emails linked to her use of a private server when she was secretary of … Read more
Finally the wishes of many Ghanaians have come to pass so far as election is concerned in the 20th century of our democratic dispensation when electoral commission announced that, only four political parties could contest for the 2016 general election, a decision many Ghanaians over the years have been praying to happen. The electoral commissioner, … Read more
Executives of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) on Friday October 21 cooperated with the officers of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over alleged illegalities committed in the filling of nomination forms by its flag bearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, Felix Ograh, one of the lawyers of the party, has revealed. The PPP was one of … Read more