A very close friend of mine sent me a text message on my mobile phone alerting me to watch GRTS where Momodou Sabally, the one time disgraced Secretary of Presidential Affairs, was on live interview. Without hesitation, my spontaneous reaction was: what is that idiot doing at GRTS? When I […]
Author: Musa Saidykhan
Are We Seeing The Two Rights?
Leaders have big responsibilities, and society should also adapt to changes and not entirely hold on to cultural values, since we take our kids to school and learn western education and western capitalist systems, then we can’t hold on to 100% of our cultural values since we’re not running our […]
Why We Celebrate Deyda’s Life
Many dates in a year will come and go without many people noticing. December 16 is not one of the days that comes and goes unnoticed. It was on December 16 2004 when the Gambia’s leading journalist was assassinated just 100 meters away from police intervention unit headquarters in Kanifing. […]
Does Gambia Need To Auction Off All Its Potential Oil Blocks?
It was just some weeks ago that I read in one of the online newspapers that the Gambia was going on a trade mission to London to pitch the sale of three (remaining) oil blocks to potential investors. Blocks A1 and A4 were already in dispute as African Petroleum is […]
What APRC Leader Should Do
This post is a response to Fatu Radio Network article originally published by Standard Newspaper in which Fabakary Tombong Jatta – the interim leader of the former ruling APRC – argued that the Gambia’s ousted President Yahya Jammeh should not live in exile. Does Fabakary Tombong Jatta, the former House […]
Stop Insulting Our Intellect
Mr. Sutay Kuta Sanneh’s original article titled “How the struggle against Jammeh could end up producing low caliber leaders” published on kibaaro newspaper in 2013 was not only based on cynicism and pessimism but it was also insulting, condescending, lack of tolerance and respect for constitutional right of Gambian citizens […]
‘I Did Not Betray My Of Office’
The leader of the Gambia Moral Congress has issued a statement addressing his removal as the Minister of Interior. In the said statement published below, Lawyer Mai Ahmad Fatty accepted the removal in good faith. He however denied betraying “my oath of office.” All Thanks and Praises due to Allah, […]
The Gambia’s Slow Dangerous March Towards a Crisis State
BySaul Saidykhan A young man name Alieu Bah is being celebrated for being the Tiger behind what is being bandied around as a genius idea in the New Gambia: the right to protest for the sake of protesting. That the idea is at best adrenal-driven, and bereft of any sense and sound […]
HURIDAC Chair Appointed Advisor
HURIDAC Press Release: 2/11/17 HURIDAC’s Chair Appointed as an Advisor in The Gambia The Gambian government has appointed Ndey Tapha Sosseh as an Advisor to Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure. Ndey Tapha Sosseh serves as the Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of Human Rights Advancement, Development and Advocacy Centre […]
Adama Barrow: Gambian Prodigy
Dear Editor Kindly allow me to use your reputable media to congratulate Gambians and their meritorious President. I wish to register my profound congratulations to the Gambian sensation, President Adama Barrow and the people of the Gambia for their meritorious choice. The emergence of this progeny, Adama Barrow, on Gambia’s […]
Of Omar Sadio’s Secret Military Career
The enlistment of the Casamance Separatist rebel leader’s Son in the Gambia national army is a vindication of activists claims that former Gambia President Yahya Jammeh’s lack of trust in Gambian military officers. Until Lance Corporal Omar Sadio, the son of Salif Sadio, had his cover blown, claims of the […]
Military Undoing Dictatorship Wrongs
By Abdoulie John The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) has began what appears to be the undoing of the rocky relationship it had with the civilian population during 22 years of the Jammeh dictatorship. The GAF leadership knows the cure to the bad blood is for military to remain not only […]