"Politics is a foolish game....I stop politics....I don't want to be like by half the people and fighting half the people....I want the whole Ghana to like me....an empty calabash cannot sit in the river."
--- Sir Bukom Banku (a.k.a Braimah Kamoko), Pugilist & Amateur Comedian
Pope Francis' personal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, has died as a result of “complications due to Covid,” the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano announced https://t.co/ela76eTFS7
My second daughter has just reported to me that someone called her "My wife" in church Last night. That phrase is one of the red flagged phrases that they are told to report anytime someone says it to them. I am warning the guy on Sunday. Protect your kids...
VP saw 384 men sleeping inside fences, on concrete w/no pillows or mats. They said they hadn’t showered in weeks, wanted toothbrushes, food. Stench was overwhelming. CBP said they were fed regularly, could brush daily & recently got access to shower (many hadn’t for 10-20 days.)
Prof Raymond Atuguba’s research (unsurprisingly) shows that Supreme Court Justices vote along party lines. Their vicious & ludicrous attacks on him are attacks on academic freedom & are dangerous for our democracy.
Part of our success story in the Northeast is that Boko Haram is finding it more difficult to recruit people. The Nigerian Army is intensifying its onslaught; I am confident that we will soon achieve our goal of dismembering the group and rendering it completely powerless.