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The Gambia’s President elect Adama Barrow has said his countrymen are at the brink of making another world history tomorrow, after defeating Yahya Jammeh in the 1 December election. “We made history on the first day of December. Our future starts tomorrow”, he said in a tweet this morning. We made history on the first day of December. Our future starts tomorrow. #Gambia pic.twitter.com/kSxUcROONJ— Adama Barrow (@adama_barrow) January 18, 2017 Although he is now sequestered in Dakar, Senegal, leaders of the regional bloc ECOWAS have said he would be sworn in tomorrow on the Gambian soil, meaning they would drive…

Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger has advised all political office holders to enroll their children in public schools to ensure the revival and sustenance of the sector. He gave the advise when he received the President of Children’s Government of Nigeria, Miss Hauwa Musa and other delegations on Wednesday in Minna. According to the governor, such step will enable public schools attain efficiency and relevance if they are patronised by politicians. He decried the neglect of public schools and health centres by the elites in the society, as members of their family do not patronise such public facilities. “It is…

The Senate on Wednesday, advised the military to as much as possible apply caution in the exercise would call upon to undertake on behalf of Nigerians. The advice followed a point of order, raised by the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan at plenary. Lawan recalled that dozens of people were killed on Tuesday when an air force jet accidentally bombarded the Rann IDPs camp, Kala Balge in Borno. Ike Ekeremadu: the Deputy Senate President, who presided over the plenary, that, “We only hope and pray that this will not happen again. We urge the military, especially the air force; to as…

The Gambia’s National Assembly has adopted a resolution to allow President Yahya Jammeh to stay in power for three more months, starting from Wednesday, according to state television. Jammeh, who has ruled The Gambia for 22 years, initially acknowledged opponent Adama Barrow as the winner of elections in December, but later rejected the ballot count as flawed and lodged a complaint with the country’s Supreme Court. Barrow is due to be inaugurated on Thursday. Jammeh had declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, just days before he was due to step down, with British and Dutch travel agencies scrambling to…

Justice Binta Fatima Isah of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Zaria, yesterday January 17, 2017, convicted and jailed one Jehu Kwasu to 3 years in prison on a two-count charge of forgery and obtaining by false pretence. The graduate of Political Science was narrated how he impersonated the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah and defrauded prominent Nigerians of millions of naira. Kwasu said his victims included Bishop David Oyedepo, who he claimed gave him N500,000; the Chairman, Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, N1m; Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, N500,000; businessman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, N2m. He allegedly collected the…

Thousands of people are faking living in Ireland to get family members into the UK, a BBC investigation has revealed. The scam involves UK nationals who want to bring in close relatives from outside the European Economic Area. Police said immigration advisers, lawyers and accountants were behind the multi-million pound fraud. The UK government is warning it is a growing industry that exploits European free-movement rules. The scam uses the so-called Surinder Singh route, named after a historical immigration court case. If a UK national lives and works in another European country for a period of time, they can be…

Former Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says has not retired, but is instead taking a sabbatical until the summer. The 65-year-old has been out of work since leaving Old Trafford in May. On Monday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said Van Gaal had ended his coaching career, with the sudden death of his son-in-law influencing his decision. But he told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser that although retiring was a possibility, it is not “definitive”. The Dutchman also revealed he had turned down the opportunity to coach struggling Spanish club Valencia last month. “Whether I continue or not will also…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says provision has been made in the2017 budget to extend telecommunications services to additional 40 million Nigerians across the country. Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC disclosed this in the latest edition of the commission’s publication, “The Communicator’’ and made available to the newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. Danbatta said that the commission had conducted a survey, which identified about 200 communities nationwide with telecommunication access gap. He said that through the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) being managed by a department under NCC, 40 million people in these communities would be…

At least two soldiers were killed in fresh unrest in Ivory Coast’s capital and gunfire erupted in other cities on Tuesday, signaling further upheaval inside the security forces just as it seemed the government had settled a mutiny in the army. Ivory Coast has emerged from a 2002-2011 crisis marked by two civil wars as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, but over the past two weeks it has struggled to cope with a public sector strike and growing tensions in the military. Tuesday’s unrest appeared to have started in the capital Yamoussoukro, just hours after the government began paying…

The Kogi House of Assembly has unanimously condemned the report of the State Staff Audit Committee, and ordered the executive to furnish the house with a comprehensive report “within 24 hours”. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance, raised by Mr Friday Sani (PDP-Igalamel-Odolu), in which he decried the declaration of a chunk of the civil workforce as “uncleared and therefore, ghosts”. In the motion, which he tagged: “Save the Souls of Kogi Workers”, the lawmaker said that there was an urgent need to save the souls of civil servants at both the state and…