When Is It Appropriate to Talk About Impeaching Trump?
Photo: Elvert Barnes/flickr/cc For the week following the firing of FBI Director James Comey, media outlets continuously compared the firing to the events leading up to the Watergate scandal, although nothing suggests that President Trump will receive the same treatment as Nixon. Here’s The Atlantic: “Five Reasons the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate” which […]
“Loose Lips Sink Ships”: Trump revealed highly classified intel to two Russian officials
Photo: US President Donald Trump with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,and Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House. Loose lips sink ships; it’s a common phrase that was coined as a slogan during WWII in an attempt to limit people from inadvertently giving […]
Nigeria: Why Did Buhari Govt Delay 219 Chibok Girls’ Release Negotiations For Two Years?
The recent release of 82 more girls from Boko Haram captivity raises several questions regarding timing and the details of the negotiations. In July, 2015 a human rights activist reported to the Associated Press that Boko Haram was offering to release 200 young women who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the town of Chibok […]
The Budding Political Uprising In Northern Nigeria: Poverty Or Zonal Politics?
From the North to the South, Nigeria’s political firmaments have become a bit misty and cloudy in recent weeks. The news of the president’s arrival back to the country from his long medical vacation and the release of 82 of the missing Chibok girls by the Boko Haram insurgents cause concern that the most populous […]
The Events Leading up to Comey’s Dramatic Firing and the Resulting Chaos
It has been just over 36 hours since now-former FBI Director James Comey was fired and the move has sparked unprecedented chaos in the U.S. and around the world. For the umpteenth time in the past year, there’s been a suspiciously timed announcement, but this time, there’s an immediate tsunami of speculation for his firing – […]
BREAKING: Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey, Watergate-Style
Who else but President Donald Trump – is the question we ask ourselves all too often. News broke earlier that Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey – a move that all too closely resembles Nixon’s firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox during his investigation of the President. The President stated that the move came after […]
Sally Yates’ Senate Judiciary Hearing was revealing and disconnected at the same time
The senate judiciary hearing of Obama’s former Attorney General Sally Yates and retired national intelligence director James Clapper was political theater at its most partisan and disconnected. Both sides seemed to be fighting for the premise of the proceedings, and that was perhaps the most frustrating part. Democrats Stick to Investigation Democrats, by and large, […]
Nigeria: Opposition ‘Concerned’ Over 82 Swapped Chibok Girls
The price paid by the Nigerian government to secure the release of 82 more of the kidnapped Chibok school girls has been described as ‘worrisome and of great concern’ by main Nigerian opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Although the party hailed the release of the girls, which according to it brought extreme pain and […]
Emmanuel Macron decisively beats Marine Le Pen in French election
In a decisive victory, the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron beat the far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen.
Democrat Lawmakers’ Premature Celebration after the AHCA’s Passing in the House
Before Thursday’s vote to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act (AHCA), House Democrats have been floundering to find something to attack their Republican counterparts that will connect with the average voter. Now, Democrats don’t have to look any further than the Health Care vote for ammunition in the 2018 midterms.