Bakassi peninsula officially Cameroonian

Nigeria Thursday fully transferred its administrative authority over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, in line with the 2002 ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague and the subsequent Green Tree Agreement (GTA) brokered by the UN in 2006. After the signing of the withdrawal documents by the leaders of delegation of both countries, the peninsula, which juts into the resource-rich Gulf of Guinea, was formally handed over to Cameroon, ending decades of dispute which pushed both nations to the brink of war several times. After the handover ceremony, held at the state house in Calabar, capital of Nigeria’s southern Cross River state, the national athemns of both nations were played.