Gambian President wants Gambians to utilise their human resource – their main source of our strength – to derive maximum benefit from all our natural resources. “We are fortunate that God has endowed us with vast arable land, a productive river and a vibrant youthful population to propel development for […]
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All Eyes Set On Gambia’s Justice Minister
By Abdoulie John All eyes are set on The Gambia’s Attorney General and Justice Minister whose office is expected to issue a legal advice to President Adama Barrow over the ‘poisonous’ fertilizer reportedly sold to Senegalese businessmen by officials of the Ministry of Agriculture. This is undoubtedly a litmus test […]
GAMBIANS: LET’S BE CAREFUL OF WHAT WE WISH FOR!!! Part 3
The recent donor conference in Belgium is reported to have raised 1.45 billion euros for the tiny Gambia all due to the new path we have decided to follow as a collective and out of sympathy for the maladministration we endured for 22 years under Jallow Kanilai. The hard truth […]
‘Gambia’s GDP Is Under-estimated’
By Abdoulie John The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs believes The Gambia has not been using the right numbers to properly measure her economy. He said figures of 2004 have been used to calculate the GDP, giving a wrong data on the economy. “All along […]
Darboe Extends Generosity To Victims’ Center
By Abdoulie John A renowned Gambian philanthropist Momodou Turo Darboe on Saturday extended great largesse to the Kololi-based Gambia Center for Victims of Human Rights Violations. Through his Vision Development Foundation (VDF), Mr. Darboe showered 100 bags of rice and 225 bags of sugar to the targeted people. The victims’ […]
Azerbaijani University Honors Prof. Kah
By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline Professor Muhammadou M.O. Kah, formerly of The University of The Gambia and now Vice President of Academic Affairs at American University of Nigeria has been honored by ADA University in Azerbaijan. Professor Kah bagged a prestigious job as Founding Dean and Vice Rector for Technology and […]
Kentucky: Senegambians Celebrate Young Gambian Scholar
By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline The Senegambian community of Lexington and Kentucky on June 1st,2018 converged at Lexington Oakwood center to celebrate and pray for Omar Pa Mambuna Bojang, a gifted and serious young academic of Gunjur origin. Omar Bojang ,son of Pa Mambuna Bojang of Kombo Gunjur graduated from High […]
UTG Produces First Ever Made In The Gambia PhD
By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline University of The Gambia made history today by producing its first ever PhD graduate in collaboration with University of Gaston Berger. The degree is in Mathematics bagged by John T. Mendy, a student of University of The Gambia. Speaking at the convocation ceremony, Vice Chancellor, Professor […]
Division Bedevils Serrekunda Market
By Abdoulie John Traders and street vendors at Serekunda market are not warming for better relations, with each group continuing to stand firm on its ground. Both sides claim their members move is ‘legally justified.’ The spiraling bad blood comes in the wake of crisis at one of The Gambia’s […]
Gambia Needs Abuse Of Office Free System
By Abdoulie John The Gambia’s Chief Justice has expressed the need for the country to move towards a more perfect constitution that would not would not trample upon Gambians’ newly won freedom. Justice Hassan Aboubacarr Jallow made the statement as the eleven-member consitutional review panel is set to draft a blueprint […]
The Constitutional Review Commission Is Unlawfully Constituted
It is the inexorable law of nature that every creature will succumb. Stated differently, human life is transient. In a limited sense, and in our geographic circumstances, what permanence there is belongs to the physical entity called Gambia and its betterment must therefore constitute our collective preoccupation. It is incontestable […]
London Letter With Dida Halake: Open Letter to Lawyer Mandela Darboe
Dear Lawyer Mandela Darboe, I use your earned honorific title “Lawyer Mandela Darboe” most respectfully – and I believe I was the first to use it on Kairo News and JollofNews when Bandit Yahya Jammeh murdered Solo and arrested you and your colleagues. I write this first letter to you […]