Bakassi troops pull-out 'legal'
Nigeria’s Federal High Court has rejected a legal attempt to prevent President Olusegun Obasanjo withdrawing troops from the Bakassi peninsula. After missing a September deadline, Nigeria said it would comply with a World Court ruling to hand the disputed land to Cameroon. But four Bakassi residents went to court to try to stop the planned military pull out from the territory. No new date for the handover of the oil-rich peninsula has been agreed.Full Story