BREAKING: Gambian Parliament Extends Jammeh’s Tenure By 3 Months
Gambia’s National Assembly has passed a resolution early Wednesday, January 18, 2017 to allow President Yahya Jammeh to stay in office for three months from Wednesday, state television said. Jammeh...
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Gambia: Jammeh’s Family Flees Banjul As ECOWAS Forces Set To Invade
Unconfirmed reports said the wife and children of outgoing President Yahya Jammeh have left Banjul, the capital city of Gambia on the eve of the deadline given him by the ECOWAS and the African Union...
View ArticleBREAKING: Former US President Bush And Wife, Barbara Hospitalised
Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, former First Lady Barbara Bush, have both been hospitalized, his spokesman said Wednesday, January 18, 2017. Jim McGrath told CNN that the 41st president...
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Pastor Arrested For Prophesying President Mugabe Would Die On Oct 2017...
A Zimbabwean activist pastor, Patrick Mugadza, appeared in court on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 after police arrested him for predicting that President Robert Mugabe would die in October this year....
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Oxford Prof Adebanwi’s Appointment Represents Hope For Nigeria’– Mimiko
Olusegun Mimiko, the governor of Ondo State, has described the appointment of Professor Wale Adebanwi as a Rhodes Professor in Race Remonselations in the School of Inter-disciplinary Area Studies at...
View ArticleUpdate Rann Airstrike: 54 Victims Stabilised In 3 Maiduguri Hospitals
At least 54 victims of military bomb misfire in Rann, Headquarters of Kala-Balge are hospitalised in three hospitals located in Maiduguri with all of them in stable conditions, the Borno State...
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Gambia Impasse: How Buhari’s Bad Example May Have Fuelled Jammeh’s Defiance
As it is now, The Gambia is under emergency rule as declared by its president of 22 years, Yahya Jammeh. The emergency rule has become necessary in the estimation of Jammeh, following his decision to...
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‘Rann IDP Airstrike Wasn’t Accidental, We Were Bombed 3 Times’– Survivor
One of the Internally Displaced Persons in Rann, Borno State, who survived the accidental bombing of the camp on Tuesday, said the Nigerian Air Force fighter jet involved in the operation dropped bombs...
View Article‘Nigerians Will Surely Vote Buhari Out In 2019’– Fayose
Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti State, has said Nigerians will vote out President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 elections over the abysmal...
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24 Hours After Rann Airstrikes, 90 Critically Injured Victims Yet To Be...
Nigeria was struck with the shocking news on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 that an “accidental” airstrike by men of the Nigerian Air Force of ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’ in the Rann Internally Displaced...
View ArticleRann IDP Bombing: Coalition Calls For Immediate And Independent Investigation
A pro-democracy coalition says only an immediate and independent investigation of the bombed Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Rann, Borno State could assure the international community of...
View ArticleGambia: ECOWAS Troops Halts Advancement, Gives Jammeh 12 Noon Deadline To Vacate
West African armies late Thursday, January 19, 2017 halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country’s new president, Adama Barrow. The decision is to enable regional leaders make one last...
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Gambia: UN Security Council Backs Barrow, Says Jammeh Needs To Go
Urging all Gambian parties to respect the outcome of the 1 December election recognizing Adama Barrow as the country’s President-elect, the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, January 19, 2017...
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‘Nigerian Airforce Targeted Densely Populated Area In Rann Airstrike’– Human...
Nigerian Airforce strike that killed more than 70 people and wounded at least 120 in the Rann IDP camp on Tuesday also hit areas of a town that were densely populated, Human Rights Watch, HRW, said on...
View ArticleNigerian Wailers Congratulate Donald Trump As He Takes Office As 45th US...
We congratulate Mr. Donald John Trump on his emergence and swearing in as the 45th President of The United States of America. America has been a world leading power that has been of great support for...
View ArticleRetired Roman Catholic Priests Call For An End To The Celibacy Rule
The Roman Catholic Church should end the celibacy vow, a group of senior priests in Germany has said. In an open letter, the group of 11 high ranking clerics said every man should have the right to...
View ArticleAkwa Ibom Gov’t Approves Mass Burial For 200 Abandoned Corpses
The Akwa Ibom State government has approved 200 abandoned corpses in a public mortuary for mass burial. The state’s commissioner for health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, disclosed this in Uyo on Thursday,...
View ArticleCardinal Onaiyekan Condemns Failure To Rescue Kidnapped Priest After One Year
The Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has bemoaned the failure of security agencies to rescue missing Rev. Fr. Gabriel Oyaka from his abductors after more than one year, according to...
View ArticlePress Freedom: Ezekwesili, Other Prominent APC Supporters Write Buhari Open...
A group of journalists, writers and public figures – all of whom campaigned for the All Progressives Congress, APC and the former military dictator during the 2015 elections – has penned an open letter...
View ArticleNigeria’s National Assembly Is A Joke, And They Know It [MUST READ]
For the past two weeks, I have stayed glued to the television watching with fascination tinged with envy, the American Senate confirmation hearings for cabinet nominees. The quality of what I have seen...
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