Who are the main runners and riders? Uganda’s national and local elections on Thursday see the long-term incumbent president, Yoweri Museveni, (National Resistance Movement) pitted against two leading opposition candidates – Kizza Besigye (Forum for Democratic Change) and Amama Mbabazi (GoForward). This is the fourth attempt by Besigye, the president’s former personal doctor, to win…
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has survived a no-confidence in parliament, while a court is hearing a case to reinstate 738 corruption charges against him. Governing party MPs defeated the motion by a big margin, while Mr Zuma’s office said he would oppose the court case. The opposition was behind both actions, accusing him of…
Beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP), would be paid their monies electronically starting from this year, Nana Oye-lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), has stated. The move aimed at improving cash transfer arrangement for LEAP – a safety net to provide some relief to the indigent in the country, comes…
The 2016 Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has rejected the often repeated accolade “smartest economist in Ghana” accorded him. The renowned economist believes Ghana is endowed with a lot of smart economists and hence it would be suicidal for anyone to be tagged the best or the smartest.…
President John Mahama’s declaration that 800 MegaWatts of Power has been added to the country’s generation mix has been challenged by energy policy-think tank, African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP). ACEP has put the figure at 580megawatts. Sounding triumphant, President John Mahama declared that after lots of hard work “we have achieved the fastest mobilisation…
The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo had paid a visit to the site of the founder and leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission of Ghana, Apostle Ing. Dr. Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, also known as African Star, at Gomoa-Mpota in the Central Region of Ghana. The 2016…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has warned the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop using its slogan “Forward Ever, Backward Never”. Speaking to Kasapa FM’s Maame Broni, the General Secretary of the CPP Nii Armah Akomfrah said his party has officially written to the NDC seeking for answers and warning them to desist from…
The National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC), Kofi Adams has said the NPP leader Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s take on the State of the Nation Address looked gloomy to him because he confused the country with the mess happening in his party. Nana Addo Monday delivering his version of what the NPP says is…
Dunning and Proctor also warn that the wilful spread of ignorance is rampant throughout the US presidential primaries on both sides of the political spectrum. “Donald Trump is the obvious current example in the US, suggesting easy solutions to followers that are either unworkable or unconstitutional,” says Dunning. So while agnotology may have had its…