Jammeh gets three-month tenure extension
Gambia’s National Assembly Wednesday passed a resolution that gave the incumbent president Yahya Jammeh a three-month tenure extension, Reuters reported quoting Gambian state television. Jammeh...
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Troops, Nigerian warship head for Gambia to sack Jammeh
Nigeria soldiers will, on Wednesday (today), arrive at a base of the Economic Community of West African States troops in Senegal to ensure that President...
Gambia: Supreme Court Truncates Jammeh’s Ploy to Remain in Office legally
The move by outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to stop the inauguration of the President-elect Adama Barrow suffered a major setback on Monday as the...
Obama Extends Sanctions In Hostile Goodbye to Zimbabwe’s Mugabe
Following President Robert Mugabe sarcastically proposing marriage to President Barack Obama in the wake of the legalization of gay marriage, to Obama excluding the Zimbabwean...
ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Meet, Prepares Military Action Against Jammeh
The Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff, Abayomi Olonisakin, on Saturday hosted colleagues from other West African countries as ECOWAS steps up preparation for a possible...
25,800 Children From Nigeria, 3 Others, Arrived Italy by Themselves in 2016 – UNICEF
No fewer than 25,800 unaccompanied or separated children mainly from four African countries – Egypt, Eritrea, Nigeria and the Gambia — arrived Italy by sea...
Gambia talks fail as president refuses to step down
The Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow, has left the country after talks failed to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step down. Nigeria’s president flew to Banjul...
Buhari to send over 800 soldiers, warplanes to Gambia if Jammeh fails to step down
President Muhammadu Buhari has raised an army battalion that would be deployed in troubled Gambia to forcefully remove President Yahya Jammeh from power if he...
Gambia: Jammeh Seeks reconciliation With Barrow
A day after the country’s Supreme Court advised an out-of-court settlement, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has appointed a mediator to liaise between him and the...
Goodluck Jonathan named in Italian bribery probe
Italian prosecutors have alleged that Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan and his oil minister received kickbacks as part of a $1.3bn deal involving oil giants...