Washington Voices On Eve of Inauguration
Washington, United States When a New York billionaire property mogul announced that he was running for president on June 16, 2015, few believed he would be anything more than an entertaining...
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President-Elect Pledges Unity At Concert
Donald Trump has pledged to unify America as he addressed cheering supporters at a concert on the eve of his presidential inauguration. Speaking on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC,...
Executive Actions Ready To Go As Trump Prepares To Take Office
Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive actions on his first day in the White House on Friday to take the opening steps to crack down on immigration, build a wall on the U. S.-Mexican border and...
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!
For those that are troubled, that are grieving, that are suffering, that are deeply concerned and that are in a state of utter despondency and despair about what is happening in our country today and...
A Clash Between True Federalism, Clumsy Leadership
MANY Nigerians sorrowfully misconstrue the supposed looting spree that characterised the successive Nigerian governments as the epicentre of the economic muddle the country is facing today. Some...
Profile of Hon. Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye
Professor Michael Aaron Oquaye was born on 4th April 1944 to Mr. E. G.N. Oquaye of Osu, Accra (a cocoa merchant) and Mrs. Felicia Awusiki Oquaye, (nee Azu) of Odumase-Krobo – the third of 7...
Trump Claims He ‘would Have Won’ Popular Vote
In his latest Twitter tirade, President-elect Donald Trump has claimed he could have won more votes than his rival Hillary Clinton. "I would have done even better in the election, if that is...
Professor Mike Oquaye Is New Speaker of Parliament
The Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic will commence on January 7, 2017, with Prof. Aaron Michael Oquaye presiding, highly placed sources within the incoming governing New Patriotic Party...
Trailblazing US Astronaut Was 95
The ex-Marine and US Senator had been in hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for more than a week and died surrounded by his children and wife of 73 years. Glenn is best known for circling the earth in 1962...
‘Very Impressed’ With Petraeus As He Weighs Top Diplomat Job
President-elect Donald Trump stepped up his search on Monday for a new U. S. secretary of state, with the focus on David Petraeus, a former U.S. military commander in Iraq whose mishandling of...
Dennis Bioh Envisions ‘Last Tear’ For African Immigrants In The US
Dennis Bioh is President and CEO of the African Community Resource Center (ACRC), a US-based nonprofit organization that seeks to bring opportunities to Africans primarily living in Virginia and the...
Millions Voted Illegally In Presidential Poll
US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally". The Republican, who won the all-important electoral...
Bruce Arena Rehired As United States Coach, Replacing Jurgen Klinsmann
Bruce Arena has been named manager of the United States men’s national team for a second time, the U. S. Soccer Federation announced on Tuesday. Arena replaces Jurgen Klinsmann, who was dismissed...
ISIS Next Place Is Mali
Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by...
Mattis Is A ‘very Impressive’ Candidate For Defense Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he was considering retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to serve as his secretary of defense. "General James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is being considered for...
James Mattis Leading Candidate For Defense Secretary, Source Says
President-elect Donald Trump is very interested in the idea of having retired Marine Gen. James Mattis serve in his administration and he can be considered a leading candidate for secretary of...
Obama Blocks New Oil, Gas Drilling In Arctic Ocean
The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in the icy waters will harm whales, walruses and...
Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanas Greatest Philosophical Genius 2
“Anton Wilhelm Amo's most devoted researcher and biographer, the East German scholar Burchard Brentjes, writes in his generally excellent 1977 study, “Anton Wilhelm Amo: Der Schwarze Philosoph in...
Trump Praises Protesters’ ‘passion’ After Calling Them ‘unfair’
U. S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised demonstrators for being passionate about their country, just hours after he accused them of being "professional protesters" incited by the media....
World Resigned, But Wary of Unpredictable Donald Trump
American allies woke up to Donald Trump's victory early Wednesday deeply unsettled, questioning whether the US will remain a stalwart partner and a stable pillar of the international order. Trump...