The world has never been short of demagogues and fools, but the remedies have often matched the supply. In 1990, during President Nelson Mandela’s thank-you tour of the world, he was asked at the City College of New York, Harlem, United States, why he remained friends with Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, and Fidel Castro. He replied that he didn’t think …

President Donald Trump has offered to pay a $1,000 stipend as travel assistance to migrants who decide to voluntarily deport themselves from the United States. Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Noem noted that the policy, which will offer $1,000 and a flight home to each immigrant who self-deports, covers part of the Trump …

The latest Forbes report has highlighted how tech giants, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and America’s wealthiest individuals, collectively lost more than $300 billion in the first 100 days of President Donald J. Trump’s second term. Since 20 January, Musk’s fortune has shrunk by more than $45 billion, the largest individual decline among U.S. billionaires. The report said the …

President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have been marked by sweeping changes and the fulfillment of campaign promises, such as stemming the tide of illegal immigration, cutting wasteful government spending, and enacting legislation that protects women and girls in sports. And as his second term has rolled out, Trump has not minced words when it comes to faith, …

Canada was voting Monday for a new government to confront a trade war and annexation threats by President Donald Trump, who pushed for the United States to absorb its neighbor as polling stations opened. The Liberal Party, led by new Prime Minister Mark Carney, looked set to lose to the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre until the US president’s attacks on the …

Donald Trump will host the biggest holders of a cryptocurrency he launched earlier this year for dinner, the company overseeing the currency said Wednesday, sending its price surging. ‘Get $TRUMP. Have Dinner with President TRUMP!’ suggests a promotional message posted on the official website of the cryptocurrency named after the US president. The $TRUMP memecoin was launched at the end …

If you are an African and you have read these two books: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney; and The Wretched of the Earth authored by Frantz Fanon, you would have an entirely different perspective on world events and how they affect the continent. As a student of history and social science, I view certain developments from a …

Elite US university Harvard risked billions of dollars in federal funding Monday as it rejected a list of sweeping demands that the Trump administration said are intended to crack down on campus antisemitism. The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices, and admissions procedures expands on a list Harvard received on 3 April, which ordered officials to shut diversity …

Undoubtedly, the United States’ President Donald Trump does not appear to be a man of peace. He does not even care to be seen as such. Trump is cast in the mould of someone who loves a fight and is always in the mood to engage in one. Where there is no fight, he instigates one. Where there is no …

When listeners in northern Nigeria tuned into Voice of America (VOA) last month, they found music playing in place of their regular broadcast — a telltale sign, historically, that soldiers had seized telecoms offices, and even the government. ‘Was there a coup in the US’?, a VOA journalist, Babangida Jibrin recalled one worried listener asking, as he and colleagues fielded …