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Gambia's President Adama Barrow has finally returned home Thursday, to solidify his position as the country's first new commander in chief in two decades after a political crisis that sent the previous ruler into exile. Gambians eagerly awaited Barrow at the airport in Banjul amid tight security. Barrow defeated Jammeh in December elections, but the veteran leader did not want to cede power.

Barrow was sworn into office on Jan. 19 at the Gambian Embassy in neighboring Senegal because of security threats as Jammeh clung to power.

Jammeh finally left Gambia last weekend, bowing to international pressure that included a regional military force, ending a more than 22-year rule. The West African troops were poised to oust Jammeh if diplomatic talks failed.

There are currently 2,500 of the ECOWAS troops still in Gambia — in the capital, Banjul, as well as at key crossing points between Gambia and Senegal and at the port and airport, according to Sweden's U.N. Ambassador Olof Skoog, the current U.N. Security Council president.

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, January 27, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Oil marketer jailed 69 years, to return N754m to FG
  
• Ikeja Electric refuses to energise transformer bought by community
  
• Police arrest hospital proprietor for illegal surgery
  
• Two killed, seven injured in Ogun gas plant explosion
  
• NTIC: Police confirm four suspects’ arrest, recover N1.2m
  
• Buhari's health: President should address Nigerians, says NLC
  
• SGF must defend himself or resign, say senators
  
• Court orders interim forfeiture of Malabu oil blocks to FG
  
• Kashamu must face drug charges, US court rules
  
• N22.8bn suit: Court admits more exhibits against ex-NAF chief, Amosu
  
• Justice Yunusa admitted taking N1.5m from Rickey Tarfa
  
• Ex-gov spent N2.8bn on town ravaged by B'Haram – Witness
  
• Justice ministry has recovered stolen N18.5bn, says AGF
  
• Boko Haram: Corpers return to Adamawa after five years
  
• Employers pay N5.2bn fine for not remitting workers’ pension contributions
  
• LASG stops LAWMA from collecting waste bills
  
• Unknown gunmen shot Weeks' counsel
  
• Peacemaker kills fighter with plank for being rude
  
• 16 die, 22 injured in Katsina road crashes
  
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
• Justice Ministry recovers N18.15b looted fund
  
• Reps to investigate telcos for shortchanging fed govt
  
• Reps seek ex-ministers’ trial over $470m CCTV contract
  
• EFCC seizes $1.6b Malabu oil block from Shell, others
  
• Buhari not in London hospital, says Presidency
  
• Renowned author Emecheta dies at 72
  
• N1b for 705 LSETF beneficiaries
  
• Saraki names Ndume INEC committee chairman
  
• APC constitution review aimed at Oyegun’s critics, says Timi Frank
  
• Senate probes alleged irregularities in award of road contracts by BPP
  
• Court jails two oil magnates 69 years for subsidy fraud
  
• Forex: Manufactures call for review of 41 banned items
  
  VANGUARD:
  
• 2baba, other stars to march against Buhari’s policies
  
• No plan to visit Buhari by Governors – Lai Mohammed
  
• Judges not owed four months salary arrears — Senate
  
• Manufacturers Seek 5% Concessionary Interest Rate
  
• Edo-Osagie Flays Ikimi’s Call For Zoning Of 2019 Presidential Ticket To South
  
• ALLEGED DIVERSION OF $9BN: Reps Order Probe Of NDPHC
  
• Powerful Interests Funding Push To Reverse Forex Policy —CBN
  
• Butcher’s Son Now Nigeria’s Best Medical Graduate
  
• Bauchi formulates 30-year water devt plan
  
• Jigawa Earmarks N21.2bn For Road Projects
  
• Those Defecting To APC Are Motivated By Hunger, Business Interest —Ekweremadu
  
• NYSC Scheme, Major Unifying Factor —Obaseki
  
• NIMASA D-G To Shell: Don’t Relocate Your Corporate HQ From P-Harcourt
  
• Report of N30,000 levy for retiring nurses’ send off untrue – LASUTH
  
• Bayelsa govt floats N10bn Entrepreneur Devt Fund
  
• More Eagles To Join Mikel In China

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is seeking for partnership with Nigeria to fight terrorism. A 7- man delegation from the country’s Ministry of Defence today visited Headquarters Nigerian Air Force to discuss areas of possible collaboration as part of the global efforts to stamp out insurgency and terrorism.

The delegation was led by the Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence, Maj Gen Yahya Ahmed Massiri. While commending the Chief of the Air Staff, (CAS) Air Mshl Sadique Abubakar for the successes recorded so far in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, Gen Massiri sought the opinion of the NAF leadership about new areas of strategic military partnership where his country could be of assistance to Nigeria.

These, the CAS identified to include training and intelligence sharing to combat terrorism.