Politics

Washington, Dec. 17, 2024 – Donald Trump was the scourge of Corporate America after the Jan.6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol. Social media companies such as Facebook and Google suspended Trump’s accounts. Dozens of big corporate donors stopped giving to politicians aligned with Trump. The PGA cancelled a golf tournament scheduled at a Trump course. Nearly four years later, the prodigal son is the surprise toast of the banquet. As Trump heads for a second presidential term, business titans are lining up like supplicants vying for an audience with the …

Abuja, Dec. 16, 2024 -The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has formally approved the exit of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from the regional body. Dr Omar Alieu Touray, the  ECOWAS Commission President,  announced this on Sunday in Abuja at the end of the 66th Ordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government and ECOWAS Commission. He said the three countries would formally cease to be members of ECOWAS on Jan. 29, 2025, in accordance with Article 91 of the revised ECOWAS treaty.  Touray, however, said …

By Paul Ejime Abuja, Dec. 15, 2024 – Ghana has pulled off another feat in democratic consolidation after successfully conducting a ninth round of generally peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. While democratic elections have become a norm in the country, the 2024 General Elections were distinct in various aspects that challenged the resilience of democracy, yet, Ghanaians rose to the occasion Forty-eight hours after the poll, the Electoral Commission (EC) announced processed results from 267 out of 276 constituencies, and declared former President John Dramani Mahama, candidate of the opposition …

By Peter Ejiofor Pretoria (South Africa), Dec. 8, 2024: The Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA) has elected Mr Smart Nwobi, a lawyer, to lead its new executive committee that will guide the Nigerian community for the next three years in that country. The executive committee members were elected on Saturday, Dec. 7, at its 2024 Elective Congress in Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The election witnessed high participation by the union’s members from across that country who displayed a spirit of unity and the community’s strong engagement in its leadership process. …

Accra, Dec. 8, 22024 – Even before the announcement of the official results of Saturday’s presidential election, the ruling NPP candidate and outgoing Vice-President Bawumia Mahamudu on Sunday conceded defeat to the opposition NDC candidate, former President John Mahama. He said on national television that the party’s parallel collation showed that the poll would not end in his favour. The Electoral Commission (EC) is still expected to announce the official results in due course.  (GBN)

Accra, Dec. 4, 2024 – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, who completes his mandatory two terms by Jan.7, 2025, has promised to leave office through peaceful and credible general elections on 7 December 2024. “I came (to the office) as a result of a peaceful and credible election, and I want to go out through the same process,” to entrench the democratic tradition in Ghana, the Ghanaian leader told visiting ECOWAS Election Observation Mission led by former Nigerian Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo during an audience at Jubilee House, Accra, on Tuesday. …