As President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, gets ready to officially assume office, he has praised the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, for its intervention to ensure a successful transfer of power in his country.
Violence was averted in Kolo riverine community in Bayelsa State as Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has relocated its Kolo Creek/Soku gas pipeline across Kolo River from the river surface to the river bed.
Donald Trump was on Friday sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America with a promise to make American interests the focus of his presidency.
The Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP have appealed to the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, to prevail on the federal government to end the ongoing intimidation and harassment of journalists.
The protracted communal clashes that have claimed several lives and led to destruction of houses and farmlands in Agatu Benue State seem to have come to an end.
