(JollofNews) – President Yahya Jammeh Thursday made a desperate bid at the supreme court to stop President-elect Adama Barrow from being sworn-in pending the outcome of his election petition. Mr Barrow is due to be sworn-in next Friday as the Gambia’s third president after he was declared winner of last[Read More…]
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Gambia: Nigerian MPs Gives Conditional Asylum To President Jammeh
(JollofNews) – Deputies in Nigeria’s House of Representatives Thursday voted to give conditional asylum to President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia. The motion which was introduced under matters of urgent public importance by Sani Zoro, member for Jigawa State and former national president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, will[Read More…]
Gambia: Opposition Spokesman Responds To Jammeh
(JollofNews) – Halifa Sallah, spokesman of the Gambia’s opposition coalition has again reminded President Yahya Jammeh that he has got no power under the 1997 Constitution of the Gambia to stop next week’s inauguration of Adama Barrow as the country’s third president. Mr Jammeh’s mandate is due to expire on[Read More…]