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. […]

Saturday marked a year after Yahya Jammeh phoned then Coalition presidential candidate Adama Barrow conceding electoral defeat. Then President Jammeh said he wasn’t going to challenge “the will of Allah,” describing the Gambia’s electoral process as “rig-proof.” Gambians in their thousands filled the streets jubilating life without a man whose […]

In this smartphone generation, it’s too easy for digital content to go viral. Clearly, smartphone polices the society way more than the police. It’s second to none when it comes exposing people. The Gambia Senior Secondary School girl too has tasted the wrath of a smartphone. Perhaps, she never knew […]

President Yahya Jammeh’s former ruling Alliance for Patriotic, Re-orientation and Construction (APRC) party last weekend made its first political comeback at the Buffer Zone. Like any Gambian, the party whose government left behind unimaginable pains — human rights, psychological and financial — on Gambian taxpayer, is now given permit to […]

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 […]

The ousting of Yahya Jammeh has created another era of accountability in the Gambia. As the Mandinka parlance have it, a drum cannot be beaten when the drum beater sits on the beating stick. When Jammeh was around, government employees portrayed themselves as Angels and even trumpeted sounds of zero […]

President Adama Barrow’s signing of five United Nations treaties at once draws a vast difference between him (Barrow) and the man he had unseated. The whole world begged Yahya Jammeh to spare the lives of 9 death-row inmates in September 2012 but he did not budge. His government executed the […]

When the leader of opposition Gambia Democractic Congress (GDC) was pedaling allegations that ministers of the Coalition government embezzled donor funds he didn’t realise how he had weakened his political career. Mama Kandeh would have been a political darling had he substantiated what turned out to be “wild allegations.” His […]

The Gambia’s former Vice Present Sheriff Mustapha Dibba did what would remain reverred any time the history of the country is written or spoken. Mr. Dibba tendered his resignation on September 15th 1972 when his brother Kutubo Dibba was involved in butut scandal. As a member of cabinet Sheriff was […]

Despite frantic efforts by the Jammeh regime to white wash all his gains, former Gambian President continues to regain his lost glory. At 93, Sir Dawda Jawara is peacefully resting at home. He is not one of those former elderly statesmen soaked in basket full of hopelessness and regrets. Of […]

Historically, the Gambia’s Personnel Management Office (PMO) is always full of people most of who are job seekers in the Civil Service. The place is the first port of call for would-be career Civil Servants. The office announces vacancies, conducts interviews, vets and employs government employees. But in a Jammeh […]

Undoubtedly, True Democracy cannot be separated from noise. That’s the beauty of this system of governance. It thrives when people are guaranteed the right to speak or express themselves without restrictions. But no democracy guarantees the peddling of lies. Even the post-Jammeh era democracy in the Gambia too does not […]