Editorial

West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia.

Men of the Nigeria police force, on Thursday raided the head office of one of Nigeria’s most popular online newspaper, Premium Times, in Abuja, and arrested its publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi.

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has constituted a board of senior officers to investigate the accidental air strike that occurred at an Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Rann, Borno State.

The Senate has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari for deploying Nigerian troops to the Gambia without first seeking and obtaining the approval of the National Assembly.

The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi 11, has called on wealthy individuals in the North to use their money in promoting girl-child education so as to discourage early marriage, instead of using money to build more mosques.

Save the Children, an international charity organization has raised an alarm that hospitals, schools and other public services in Gambia and neighbouring Senegal risk being overwhelmed as tens of thousands of children flee their homes fearing political violence.