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Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo today (Friday) inaugurated the state Multi-Door Courthouse in Benin. Obaseki, who was represented by the state Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Mr Wole Iyamu, said that the establishment of courthouse would pave way for a peaceful society. He said: “The government supports the Multi-Door Courthouse; we will ensure it works. “With the Multi-Door …

The Gambia’s longtime leader Yahya Jammeh has asked for an extension of deadline for him to leave power from midday until 4pm, government sources have said, as the leaders of Guinea and Mauritania arrived in the capital, Banjul, in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to get him to cede power. A regional military force that crossed the border in support of …

US President Barack Obama called Friday on the public to offer ideas on what he should do in retirement, pledging to work for “true democracy” as he exits the White House. Just hours before handing over the leadership of the United States to Donald Trump, Obama said in tweets and a video with his wife Michelle that they were accepting …

In his last full day as president, Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 330 inmates, further cementing his legacy as having granted more commutations than any other president in US history. On Thursday Obama cut short the prison terms of 330 people, the majority of whom were convicted of federal drug crimes. During the president’s second term, he exercised his …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News WASHINGTON — America’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Thursday used the situation in The Gambia, where a serving president refused to give up power to his freely elected successor, as an example of why the peaceful transfer of power in the United States shouldn’t be taken for granted. Marine Corps Gen. …

Hours earlier, holding a Qur’an and looking solemn, Barrow was sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, where he has spent the past few days, and delivered his inaugural speech as president. “This is a day no Gambian will ever forget,” he told a crowd of officials and diplomats. “This is the first time since the Gambia became independent …

In the end, it was a father speaking with pride about his daughters and why they give him hope for the future. The final question put by a journalist to Barack Obama during his presidency merged the political with the personal. Indeed, the two have often been impossible to separate during his eight years in office. So how, Obama was …

Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow will be sworn in at the country’s embassy in Dakar, Senegal, his spokesman told AFP on Thursday. “It is going to take place at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, they have changed the venue, at 4:00 pm (1600 GMT),” spokesman Halifa Sallah said. Organisers had planned a large ceremony in a stadium near the Gambian capital, …

Four-year-old Kaka-Hauwa Aji shrieked in pain and sweat rolled down her bare torso, as two nurses in crisp white hijabs disinfected a gaping shrapnel wound on her neck. Her seven-year-old sister, Ya-zahra Aji, lay on the bed opposite, bandages wrapped around her right hand where the shards of molten metal from the off-target Nigerian Air Force bomb pierced her skin. …

The Nigerian Air Force, yesterday, airlifted 200 personnel to Senegal to join troops of the Economic Community of West States for onward movement to Gambia for the enforcement of the country’s December 1 presidential election where the incumbent president, Yahya Jammeh reportedly lost to his Adama Barrow. The airlift of the Air Force personnel is expected to be followed by …