Gambia’s Most Interactive Online Radio Network premier launching will be on Saturday, May 17 2014 on www.faturadio.com introducing the world to the Gambia’s most interactive online radio at 2pm ET, 6pm Gambia/Senegal, 7pm UK. This program will give our audience the opportunity to know the team behind the radio and […]
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Breaking News: Nigeria ‘Ready’ For Boko Haram Talks
Nigeria is ready to talk to Islamist militants Boko Haram for the release of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, Nigerian Minister has told the BBC. Minister of Special Duties Tanimu Turaki said if Boko Haram was sincere, its leader Abubakar Shekau should send people he trusted to meet the Jonathan […]
Manchester City Wins Premier League
As Manchester City celebrate winning the English Premier league today, their noise neighbors, Man U, fell from grace. Manchester City is own by wealthy Arab millionaires and the club owners pumped millions into it, attracting top quality footballers. Manchester United though, did not win any trophy this season and have […]
British MPs Back Gambia’s Student Massacre Probe
More than 20 British lawmakers have signed a motion calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to add his country’s support for an immediate international inquiry into the Gambia’s April 10 and 11 student massacres. At least 14 unarmed Gambian students were shot to death by trigger-happy security officers in April […]
What It Means To Be Black
By Seedy S. Fofanah To be Black Means to be proud of my color From the East to the West From the North to South I preserve my color like other races For the world was meant to be black To be black To be black is to be […]
MBG Set To Inaugurate Computer Literacy Centers
On February 21, 2012 the Million Books to The Gambia (MBG) project was formally inaugurated. To date we have delivered over 484,000 books, close to the half-way mark of our one-million-books goal. We have 66,000 being prepped to leave in the next two to four weeks. Due to such positive […]
UDP Criticised Over Amadou Sanneh’s Case
By Sam Phatey It has been 5 months since Mr. Amadou Sanneh, UDP Treasurer has been sentenced in December to 5 years in prison after being indicted in October 2013 by the Government of the Gambia, who had a mercenary judge, Justice Emmanuel Nkea to carry out the mission to […]
‘The Wrong Way To Meet The People’
Lawyer Darboe disproves the way President Jammeh meets Gambians. In a detailed interview with the Point Newspaper, UDP leader talks on several issues. Below is the full text. The opposition leader, Ousainou Darboe, has said President Yahya Jammeh’s ongoing tour of the country is required by the constitution, as he […]
‘Rich beggar’ paradox that is Africa’s $200bn cash reserves
By MWAURA KIMANI African countries are holding cash reserves outside the continent totalling nearly $200 billion, which they fear to invest locally owing to rising risks. The funds, nearly a third of the more than $500 billion in total reserves held by the countries, have been invested mainly in developed […]
Old Papa’s Final Fight
By Dida Halake In my favourite movie of all time, The Godfather, the aging Don Corleone anoints his son Michael as his successor. Senegal’s former President Wade also anointed his son Karim as his successor. Both succession attempts turned out to be bloody – but it is only the Godfather’s […]
How Musa Jammeh Rose to Prominence
Our State House revealer is back again with what he called “another dirty secret Gambians are not privy to.” This is about how the late Col. Musa Jammeh and Capt. Tumbul Tamba came to prominence. The revealer said it all happened after the late Lt. Almamo Manneh, the Logistic and […]
Bala Garba Jahumpa Evacuated For Treatment
Confirmed sources informed Kairo Newsthat the Gambia’s Minister of Transport, Works and Infrastructure who was involved in a car accident on Sunday, April 20, was hurriedly flown out of the country on Monday night. Bala Garba Jahumpa was involved in the accident in Upper River Region while he was on […]