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Gambia’s Jammeh declares state of emergency

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends. He decried "extraordinary" foreign interference in his...

Ivory Coast police fire teargas to disperse students protesting

Ivory Coast police fired teargas on Monday to disperse pupils and students protesting at government ministries in the main city, Abidjan, as nationwide strikes...

Gambia’s top court declines ruling on Jammeh’s election result challenge case

It appears options available to Gambia’s president Yahya Jammeh to hold onto power are diminishing fast as the expiration of his tenure approaches. The country’s...

More of Jammeh’s ministers desert him as his tenure ends on Thursday

The embattled president of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh is losing more of his allies as the end of his tenure approaches. Three more government ministers...

Nigeria crowns Virgin Queen for 2017

Dolapo Makunjuola, Miss Virginity 2017 in Nigeria. Photo Credit: Premium Times Sixteen-Year old Miss Dolapo Makunjuola has won 2017 Miss Virginity Beauty Pageant held yesterday...

Professor, child killed in suicide bombing in Nigeria’s Maiduguri

At least four people have been killed in suicide bombing attack in Nigeria’s University of Maiduguri on Monday. Local media the Punch reported that...

Gambians flee country as Adama Barrow seeks refuge in Senegal

Most of those leaving the country in anticipation of violence are women. Photo Credit: Getty   Gambians are reportedly fleeing their country days before the tenure...

Police arrest Lagos Socialite for Putting Chain On Girls

The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said it has arrested a socialite, Mike Eze-Nwalie Nwogu popularly known as 'Pretty Mike' for dehumanizing young...

Gambia president-elect Barrow ‘to stay in Senegal until inauguration’

The Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow is to remain in Senegal until his planned inauguration on Thursday, state media in Senegal say. The move was requested...

Gunmen kidnap five students and two staff from Nigerian school

Gunmen kidnapped five students and two staff, including a Turkish national, from an international school in Nigeria's southern state of Ogun, police said on...

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