By Abdoulie John As the West African region is increasingly becoming a hub for illegal drug trade, the Director General of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia (DLEAG), Alhaji Bakary Gassama, is calling on Gambians to join hands and vigorously fight drug trafficking. Domestic and international drug trafficking are […]

RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY Reference to The Daily News Editorial piece dated Monday 5th November 2018, the Gambia Police Force hereby exercise its right to respond. It is a wide known fact that the section of the Serrekunda market known as “Black Market” is mainly the place where […]

By Abdoulie John Gambian historian has said it is about time that the Commonwealth of Nations takes a new path that will inexorably help he 53-member organisation to become more people-centred. Mr. Hassoum Ceesay cited French President Emmanuel Macron as saying that time has come for organisations like the Francophonie […]

For Immediate Release As part of its ongoing public consultations, The Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) recently held a consultative session with students of Gambia Senior Secondary School at the school premises in Banjul. The meeting was part of CRC’s ‘meet the students’ school tour which began at Nusrat Senior Secondary […]

By Saul Saidykhan Last week, the young comedian Kitabu Fatty publicly complained about not getting sponsorship from Gambia’s public corporations. Won’t you know it, they found a solution: do your comedy in Wolof, not ‘tribal’ Mandinka and we’ll sponsor you! Think this is a joke? Watch Kitabu’s GRTS show. See […]

In this episode of “Celebrating our Living Legends“, we introduce you to Dawda Bah, an avid seeker and teacher of spirituality. Dawda is originally from Bakau Mamakoto in The Gambia where he did his early childhood education. He has a Master’s Degree in International Business Management from Colorado State University. […]

By: Professor Alhagi Manta Drammeh (Fellow Higher Education Academy FHEA and Fellow Royal Society of Arts, FRSA UK) As a young student in Asia attending a seminar 20 years ago, I was struck by a statement of my colleague who said that Africa is a giant. A participant in the […]

By Abdoulie John The Chief Executive Officer for the Secretariat of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Gambia (OIC), Lamin Sanneh, on Tuesday said preparations for the hosting of the Summit have reached an advanced stage. Lamin Sanneh was speaking to journalists at the OIC Secretariat headquartered at Petroleum House, […]

Gamdesigners is a newly formed company registered in the United Kingdom to Provide the platform for all Gambian designers to be able to showcase their talents to the international market. It is a state of the art platform built by Gambians with top security and the payment gateway provided by […]

The Gambia and European Union (EU) on Friday signed a new Sustainable Fishing Partnership Agreement (SFPA) protocol, 22 years after the previous protocol expired. Both parties welcome the start of a new cooperation period in the fisheries sector. The fisheries agreement allows EU vessels to fish in the Gambian waters, […]

By Abdoulie John Veteran Nigerian Human Rights Lawyer has explained why African “NGOs are not doing well.” Lawyer Femi Falana of Falana Falana Chambers told the NGO Forum of the 63rd Ordinary Session of African Commission of Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) that “There is no way you can sit […]

The Gambia has been admitted as an Observer to the International Organisation of the Francophonie -OIF at the 17th Session of the Francophone Summit recently held in Yerevan, Armenia.   On behalf of the President, the Vice President, His Excellency, Mr Ousainou Darboe, led a delegation to the Summit, where […]