A Thorny Democracy
I haven't had a chance to eavesdrop on conversations between strangers for a long time. It's a favorite pastime, to sit on the adjacent table and actively listen to the arguments and illogic of...
Tag: Hilary Clinton
If I Were An American Voter, I Will Be Very Sad Today
America is making history today November 8, 2016, whichever way the pendulum swings. Either by putting the first ever woman (Hilary Clinton) in office as president of the United States. Or putting...
T.B Joshua Predicts Victory For Mrs. Clinton
Popular Nigerian televangelist T. B Joshua has predicted that Democrat flagbearer Hilary Clinton will win the presidency in the United States of America. According to the allafrica newsfeed, the...
Hilary Clinton Tipped To Win
As the US heads to the polls on Tuesday to elect successor of President Barack Obama, the Chairman of Committee on Foreign Affairs who doubles as Member of Parliament for Biakoye Constituency...
Donald Trump Under Perspective
The 1920’s was an extraordinary period for Germans. It was a period of extreme economic hardship, occasioned, not by a sharp drop in oil prices as is the case with Nigeria, but as a comeuppance of...
If Donald Trump Were A Ghanaian Politician…
US Business mogul Donald J. Trump has defied the gods, turned the political pundits into liars, re-written the prophecies Planet Earth’s wise men made about him, thrown the Republican Party into a...
It’s Volta Region, Not Voters Region
Election year is here again and along with it have come its shenanigans. One of such is the “Voters Region” tag some have given to my region, the Volta Region. I suppose the geniuses behind the...
US Presidential Election 2016
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...
Clinton Demands Details of New Email Probe
Hilary Clinton said: "the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately" The FBI says it has new emails linked to her use of a private server when she was secretary of state....
I’m Doing What Hillary Is Wishing For America
President John Mahama has said his government has already invested heavily in socioeconomic infrastructure, something he says, the Democratic candidate in the US Hillary Clinton is now promising to...
Trump Invites Obama’s Half-Brother To Debate
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has invited President Barack Obama’s half-brother as a guest to his third and final debate with Hilary Clinton to take place this evening in Las...
A New Axis of Power
In less than a months’ time the Americans will be heading to the polls to elect a new President. And unless Republican contender, Donald Trump, can pull a last minute trick out of his hat or resort...
NDC Will Establish Agri-Business Zone In Dangbe West District
President John Dramani Mahama has assured the people of the Dangbe West District in the Greater Accra Region that his second term will see the establishment of an agri-business zone in the district...
Reigning Manifestos
We have had a few weeks of it. Rainfall diluting manifesto launches even when enough “nyame akuma' spicing in the mix forced some of us to tune out of the vague promises. But we were not alone. ...
Can Trump Win?
---Gordon Offin-Amaniampong examines the political jigsaw: Or what the writer calls the ‘Trump Three-Tier-Trap.” I get this question a lot. The latest was yesterday: “I hear people saying that...
Letter To President Barack Obama
Dear President Barack Obama I hope this letter meets you well.? Like they say back home in Nigeria” Se dada ni gbogbpo ile wa? “ Eku Donald Trump ati Hilary Clinton. Eku Election Fever. I do not...
Is Global Democracy Enhancing True Development?
Today, 15 September, is International Day of Democracy (IDD). It is the ninth commemoration since 2007 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 62/7, deciding that every 15th...