Compromised Political Leaders

Questioning the role played by Southern leaders in shaping the Nigerian constitutions of 1979 and 1999 which weakened the South with clouded prospects for its teeming younger generations is imperative at this point in Nigeria’s history. These two constitutions laid the groundwork for the current acrimony in the country, raising …

Tanim Asjad | Posted: July 23, 2021, 10:19 p.m. The exhibit was shocking but not surprising. Over the years, political and civil society activists, journalists and human rights defenders have expressed concern about wiretapping and data hacking of their communications devices. They also argued that some governments in some countries …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers to ensure they respond swiftly to opposition claims about the government’s response to Covid-19 and vaccine availability, saying the Congress was in a “coma” and was unable to digest as the BJP came to power. Addressing a …

HD Kumaraswamy collaborators Siddaramaiah and HD Devegowda may also have been targeted by Pegasus, the investigation revealed. The numbers of former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and former Deputy CM G Parameshwara were selected for possible surveillance by Israeli spyware Pegasus ahead of the overthrow of the JD (S) -Congress …

Attacking the BJP-led central government over alleged spying on the phones of several political leaders, journalists, scientists, constitutional authorities and calling it a “shocking attack” on the country’s democracy, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh urged the Supreme Court on Monday to take cognizance of the case. More …

New Delhi: A leaked database of thousands of phone numbers allegedly listed by several government clients of an Israeli surveillance technology firm includes more than 300 verified Indian mobile phone numbers, including those used by ministers, officials of opposition, journalists, the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, rights activists and …

A pro-Trump Michigan sheriff has launched an investigation into voting machines in his county, although former President Donald Trump won the region with 65% of the vote. Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf claimed, as did Trump, that there was electoral fraud leading to President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 …

For most of the last century, human dignity has had a friend: the United States of America. We are a deeply flawed and error-prone nation like any other, but America helped defeat fascism and communism and helped set the stage for European peace, Asian prosperity, and the spread of democracy. …

We cannot think of doctors and other health professionals as storytellers. At Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), we’re helping write a happy ending to the extended story of updating the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). We ask our fellow physicians and healthcare professionals to work with us …

Uproar in Senate over remarks by Federal Minister of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs Ali Amin Gandapur on PPP and PML-N leaders Gandapur had called former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto a “traitor” and Nawaz Sharif a “thief”. PPP Senator Sherry Rehman asks how Gandapur could have dared to call Bhutto …