By Guest Editor Part One Of Three The History of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP): How the Party Came to Existence, is indeed an interesting contribution in the attempt to shed light on our recent past. Coming as it does at a time when our country and its people have […]
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Real Reason Yaya Jammeh Chose 31st March House Opening
Yaya Jammeh dubiously chose the 31st March for three sad reasons. Firstly to divert public attention from the IEC deadline for party re-registration including his own APRC party, secondly to divert public attention from the UDP congress taking place in Basse from the 1st April to 3rd April and thirdly […]
Jammeh’s Economic Crime Profile Disqualifies Him From Fifth Term Presidency
By Sarjo Bayang Accountability before Continuity Cutting the long story short there is no business without profit and loss. Running a government is just another business by considering resource interplay. People of Gambia deserve to know what is happening to public money and other vital resources. One person can shed […]
UDP Set For Congress In Basse
Delegates of the main opposition United Democratic Party today leave for a three day Congress retreat in Basse. Led by the party executive, delegates converged in Banjul before embarking on a journey to Basse. The party Secretary General Lawyer Ousainou Darboe’s car was seen accompanied by a column of vehicles […]
Gano Calls For A Fula Female President – “Wallahi, Billahi, Tallahi”!!!
By Dida Jallow-Halake My indefatigable Fula in-law and ex-Jammeh ADC, Lt. Lamin Gano, has called on the opposition parties in The Gambia to put their differences aside and select a “neutral” candidate to lead them to victory in the December 2016 Presidential elections. The fired-up Lt. Is absolutely adamant that […]
Open Letter To Imams And The Muslim Ummah Of Gambia
Bissimillahi Rahman Rahim [In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful] The Gambian people are bleeding. We are tired and suffering. We are desperate and yet we the Muslim Ummah [Community] have the solution to end our suffering. Yaya Jammeh has rendered all our hopes of better and peaceful […]
A Look At Issues And Personalities In Gambian Politics
A look at topics, issues and personalities in Gambian Politics. DEMOCRACY is a phenomenal ideal, though it can never be deemed perfect in any given jurisdiction. When everyone is allowed to the podium and have their say, the job of the sovereign citizenry in determining who serves their interests better […]
Modou Ndow At Risk, Detained Again
A person at risk! An alert to all concerned Gambians and human rights agencies. A Gambian activist is currently being detained in Scotland. Modou Ndow has been in custody at Dungavel House in South Lanarkshire, Hamilton. His detention resulted when he reported for a routine signing in at the immigration […]
Multiple Effects Of 22 Years Of Dictatorship
By Kansaikou Samateh The Gambia is seriously at a cross-road with a multiple effect of dictatorial government. Gambians have become accustomed to executive misuse of power to such an extent that nothing seems to be working. As a Gambian from Lower River Region (LRR), our people’s basic needs have been […]
Surprise Of All Surprises; Jammeh Snubs State Opening Of Parliament
President Yahya Jammeh, who was scheduled to preside over the State Opening of Parliament on Thursday, decided to snub the occasion. Ironically, Mr. Jammeh’s office failed to provide justifiable reasons thus throwing the public into total confusion characterised by murmurs. Parliamentarians, diplomats and members of the public gathered at the […]
Gambians Should Learn Te Be Simple, Focus And Tolerant
By Deyda Haidara THE WAY FORWARD IN MY OPINION Whenever I hear that diaspora Gambian organizations should fuse into one umbrella organization, I say Oh my GOD here we go again for another messy road to the delight of Yaya Jammeh and his APRC [Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction]. […]
How Sheriff Bojang Misses The Point
By Bax Mr Sheriff Bojang sounds like a very eloquent individual, but his approach to issues of concern raised against the government, shows him to be a person with little or no understanding of his role as a public official. His choice of words, unfortunately, is not a “one off” […]