It is evidently clear that the ongoing Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Conmission is achieving its goals of establishing facts about the crimes that happened during Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years of dictatorship. It was just few days ago that Gambians started becoming emotional about the testimony of star witness, Abdoulie J. […]
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President Sall Wins Senegal Election
Senegal’s president Macky Sall has won his re-election bid garnering 58% of the votes cast, according to provisional results from the National Vote Counting Commission on Thursday. The majority win hands Sall a second term without a run-off vote.Opposition candidate Idrissa Seck came second with 21 percent of votes, while […]
OMVG Will Boost Gambia’s Electricity
Gambian President Adama Barrow is confident that the newly launched OMVG Hydroelectric Substation will increase the current 40 percent electricity supply in the country by 60%. The country’s generation capacity is also expected to increase from 102 to 250 Mega Watts. President Barrow’s revelation were made in Jarra Soma where he […]
The World Bank Education Sector Support Program Launch
The World Bank Country Office in The Gambia and Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education launched today the Education Sector Support Program to support school-aged children’s access to Early Childhood Development (ECD), basic education, and Madrassas (Koranic centers). The Education Sector Support Program (ESSP) funding totals $35 million and consists […]
Atiku Rejects Buhari’s Election Victory
lRuth Maclean in Ouagadougou and Eromo Egbejulein Lagos Nigeria’s opposition leader has rejected a claim by the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, that he won the presidential election, denouncing the poll as a “sham” and vowing to mount a legal challenge. Hours after the president was announced the winner of Saturday’s delayed election, Atiku Abubakar said that […]
President Buhari Wins Re-election
Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected Nigeria’s president, results showed Tuesday, after a delayed poll that angered voters and led to claims of rigging and collusion. Read more https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.france24.com/en/20190227-nigeria-election-president-muhammadu-buhari-wins
Constitutional Malfeasance – President Barrow’s Illegal Action Against Nominated MP
By Bambo Jarsey I am shocked and bewildered by President Adama Barrow’s purported “withdrawal” of his nomination of Ms. Ya Kumba-Jaiteh as a nominated member of the National Assembly. His attempt to do so, is contained in a letter dated 25 February 2019, apparently from the Office of the Secretary-General […]
Gambians Must Change Their Mindset
A respected religious leader thinks The Gambia’s magic bullet lies in nothing other than “change of mindset.” “The Gambia is a blessed country where knowledge and talents are abound,” Momodou Ceesay, the visiting Resident United States Imam, told a congregation. “All Gambians need to develop their country and change […]
The TRRC Raises Important Moral Questions Regarding Governance
By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh (Fellow Royal Society of Arts, Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK) The Gambia since independence has been a bastion of democracy, respect for human rights, vibrant civil service and plurality. Unfortunately, this beautiful scenario in the country for about 30 years has been shattered with the […]
First Ladies Must Tell Truth To Power
By Abdoulie John Sierra Leone’s Fatima Maada Bio said that First Ladies have an obligation to tell the truth to government on the plight of women and children. “I am just using my position as a First Lady to bring awareness on issues related to women and children, but also […]
AI To Pay £1m Over Stressed Worker’s Suicide
Amnesty International is to pay more than £1 million in compensation to the family of a long-serving employee who killed himself after suffering stress at the organisation. Gaëtan Mootoo, 65, died in his Paris office in May last year and left a note in which he complained of the pressure […]
Gambia Should Learn From Sierra Leone
By Abdoulie John President Adama Barrow and his Sierra Leonian counterpart on Wednesday expressed their resolve to push towards deepening the economic ties between the two countries as President Julius Maada Bio began a three-day visit in the West African nation. The two leaders made this commitment during a news […]