Trump planning to cut off funding to UN agencies

The administration of President Donald Trump is planning to stop funding any United Nations (UN) agency that promotes “the performance of abortion or sterilisation as a method of family planning”.

It is one of a number of prohibitions in the executive order that sets up a process for reviewing all American contributions to the UN—and automatically eliminating many others.

Also on the chopping block is “any United Nations affiliate or other international organisation that grants full membership to the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian Liberation Organisation”; any organisation “substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism”; and any group circumventing sanctions against North Korea or Iran.

The draft order, if enacted, would be a significant expansion on the so-called Global Gag Rule, which was first implemented by Ronald Reagan in 1984.

It was overturned during every Democratic administration, but Trump reinstated and expanded by it this week.

The Global Gag Rule only restricts usage of federal funding to organisations that do not promote (or even mention) abortion.

Trump’s draft order goes further to include sterilisation, a crucial medical procedure for women in a world where an estimated 300,000 women die during childbirth annually.

The United Nations Population Fund is one of several UN organisations that would receive a “special review of funding” under the draft order.

UNFPA states as its aim “a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.”

The organisation fights against child marriage, female genital mutilation, and maternal death. In addition, the UNFPA has played a role in assuring that pregnant women fleeing conflict are able to safely give birth.

BREAKING NEWS: President Donald Trump signs first bill into law

President Donald Trump signed his first bill into law Friday, moments after being sworn in, clearing the way for his defense secretary to be confirmed.

The 45th President signed a bill passed by Congress earlier this month that would allow retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as defense secretary by waiving the legal requirement that he be out of the military for seven years before doing so, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

Mattis will still need to be confirmed by the Senate, which is expected Friday afternoon.

Cameras rolled as Trump signed his first orders as President in the Capitol, surrounded by congressional leaders.

According to Spicer, the other papers Trump was signing included formal nominations for his Cabinet and a proclamation for a national day of patriotism.

Goodluck Jonathan congratulates Donald Trump in an open letter

Former president Goodluck Jonatthan via his Facebook congratulated America's new president, Donalt Trump.

On the letter dated January 20th 2017, he wrote;


"Dear Donald J. Trump, 

By the grace of God, President of the United States of America.
As the United States of America opens a new chapter today, many around the world, myself inclusive, are optimistic that the success you have achieved in your career as one of the world's foremost entrepreneurs will be translated to your life as a public servant and custodian of the trust of the American people.
For over four decades, you have consistently created wealth and opportunities for yourself, your family, your country and its citizens.
The city of New York, host to the United Nations Headquarters, thus the world's most prominent city, bears the hallmark of your signature through your real estate developments.
You have also left your footprints in politics, media, education, sports, entertainment and the arts.
From this backdrop, I am very hopeful that the United States of America and indeed the rest of the world will be witnessing great, worthy and positive frontiers under the Trump Presidency.
I congratulate you, the 45th President of the United States, as you begin your tenure today. I pray that God will bless your tenure and enable you actualize your vision and commitment to building a better and more secured America and the world.
Let me seize this opportunity to express my hope and desire that your administration will work with Africa to help her people realize their achievable great future and harness the God given potential domiciled in the land and people of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. 

May God bless the United States of America. May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria and may God bless the world. 

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR
Chairman of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation."

Trump and his wife arrive Washington ahead of his inauguration.

President-elect Donald Trump arrived in Washington a day ahead of his inauguration, praising his cabinet picks as having “by far the highest I.Q. of any cabinet ever assembled.”

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Trump to 'leave business' over Presidency

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that he will leave his “great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country” in the White House.

The Manhattan billionaire made the announcement on Twitter and said he will hold a formal press conference to discuss it further on Dec. 15.

he said
“I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my,” Trump wrote on social media, breaking his announcement up into multiple posts. “Great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! While I am not mandated to.

A MUST READ :An open letter to the 45th president of US from Dr Abdulkhaleq Abdulla a fellow at the London School of Economics.

  

The American people have just elected the most unqualified presidential candidate in US history. No one prior to you held the infamous title of the least qualified candidate for the most important political job in the world

Dear Mr President Trump,


Congratulations on your stunning historical win.
No one argues with success, but in all frankness, I did not expect you to win and in all honesty, I did not want you to win either. Also, very frankly, I am not very happy that you have been elected as the 45th President of the United States. It is disappointing and disheartening to me and to millions around the world.
Yet, as depressed as I deeply feel at the shocking outcome of your election, I have to respect the choice of the American people. They voted for the unexpected candidate in one of the longest, toughest and most amazing presidential elections in recent American history. I think they will regret this choice four years down the road. However, millions of unhappy Americans and many million astonished people around the world have to live with this nightmare. They will have to wear winter clothing and dig in, expecting the worst for the next four winters.


Mr President,

I have always maintained that the last thing the world needs right now is a US president who brings in a huge dose of uncertainty into global politics that is already full of uncertainties and lacks stability. ‘Anybody-but-Trump’ has been consistently my line of thinking from day one and until the last minute into this amazing election.
The world needs a confident trust-worthy statesman, not a bombastic businessman who lives on a reality TV show. I for one do not see the credible statement in you. Please prove me wrong. The last thing the world needs right now is a US president who lacks leadership quality and adds more confusion to the mighty confused global politics.


Mr President,
The American people have just elected the most unqualified presidential candidate in US history. No one prior to you held the infamous title of the least qualified candidate for the most important political job in the world before you. Your opponent Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, was probably the most qualified presidential candidate in recent memory. Candidate Clinton was certainly more qualified for the job than these previous six presidential candidates:Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Barack Obama and indeed Clinton’s husband Bill.


How is it that the democratic system in America ends up with the least qualified candidate and turns its back on the most qualified candidate? How is it that some 80 million Americans voted for a certified racist candidate? What kind of America is the America of 2016? Whatever happened to the open, tolerant friendly people of America? Is this their gift to the rest of the world, who believe in America as the land of tolerance? Talk about a rigged system. Maybe you are absolutely right — it is, afterall, a rigged, corrupt and dysfunctional system that sends not only the least credible candidate, but a despicable and deplorable person to the white house.


Mr President,
I am a concerned citizen of the world, but I am also more concerned as a citizen of the Arab Gulf states and the UAE, one of the closest and most trusted partners of the US in the Middle East. I have heard you during your campaign, talking about the Arab Gulf states as though they are nothing but oil-rich countries that need to pay America for its military presence in the region. There is more to the Gulf states than money and oil. If that is how you view us, then we are in for a bad start. This talk about forcing Arab Gulf states to pay for American protection has added more fuel to the mounting anti-Saudi Arabia manifestations running wild in Washington these days.


The US-Gulf Cooperation Council relationship has gone through a tough eight years of President Barack Obama. With this kind of nonsense, I see a difficult four years of the relationship between Washington and Arab Gulf capitals under your presidency.
However, the Arab Gulf capitals will be watching closely to see if you deliver on your campaign promise to turn up the Iran nuclear deal on Day One in office. This, among other things, will be the ultimate test of your credibility in this part of the world.


Mr President,
I do not want to take back my congratulations to you, but no matter how I look at it, I frankly see your victory as a political disaster for America and the world at large. I cannot help feeling utterly saddened that the mighty and great country of the USA now has an angry, white American as its 45th president.



Dr Abdulkhaleq Abdulla is professor of Political Science, chairman of the Arab Council for Social Sciences, theacss.org and a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics.

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Hillary Clinton suffers 2 severe coughing fits in one day.

The 69-year-old Democratic presidential candidate suffered 2 severe coughing fits after returning to the campaign trail on Labor Day.
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