The ongoing internal investigation into transferred of 33 million Dalasis into First Lady Fatoumata Bah-Barrow’s foundation (FaBB) account is a manufactured crisis by people who are advising the First Lady. The First Lady of The Gambia and her team should have known at the beginning that having a foundation is […]

By Abdoulie John Following his first 100 days in office, the Mayor of Kanifing Municipality, Talib Ahmed Bensouda, has Monday laid out major projects for the country’s biggest conurbation. He outlined series of measures geared towards turning KMC into a modern city with adequate municipal service delivery. Mayor Bensouda made […]

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, I flew out of Nigeria two days ago on one of my latest preferred airlines, Rwandair, with some of the Ovation Crew of seasoned photographer, TV cameraman and interviewer and TV producer to attend Jimoh Ibrahim’s latest venture, the International conference on Infrastructure Development for […]

By Abdoulie John State House Director of Press and Public Relations on Wednesday announced that The Gambia government is planning to set up an anti-graft commission with the view to scaling up the country’s corruption battle. Mrs. Amie Bojang-Sissoho disclosed the information during a press conference held at State House […]

Madi Jobarteh: “Section 82”. BUT you [Madi Jobarteh] leave out Section 231(4) which says the President CAN IGNORE ADVICE ON THIS AND DO WHAT HE WANTS: “Where under any provision of this Constitution any person or authority is authorised or required to exercise any function after consultation with any other […]

One of The Gambia’s lower basic schools urgently needs help. Until September 15 last year, Jiffin, a village situated few miles from Soma town in the Lower River Region, was without a school. Despite being located in a small village, the new school has a total pupil population of 141. […]

First of all, I would like to congratulate my fellow nominees who have been shortlisted for the eleven (11) positions of Commissioners of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC); the composition of which aims to reflect the gender, regional, religious, cultural and possibly, ethnic diversity of both majority and […]

President Adama Barrow has joined thousands of Gambians who mourn the untimely death of a prominent Muslim scholar. Sheikh Sedia Ceesay, an educationist of Gambia Islamic Institute in Tallinding, died on Wednesday. Thousands attended the burial of Sheikh Sedia’s burial in Tallinding. In a statement, President has “learned with deep […]

Jorge Ramos 2014 Burton Benjamin Memorial Award acceptance speech from Committee to Protect Journalists on Vimeo. The text of Ramos’ acceptance speech, as prepared for delivery, is below. I love being a journalist. It is the only profession in the world in which your job description is to be rebellious […]

Abdoulie John The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MOBSE), Mohammed B.S. Jallow, has debunked the massive failure of students who sat the just concluded West African Senior School Examination Certificate (WASSCE). He blamed the media for wrongly interpretating the results. “Education as we all know has a crucial role to play […]

By Professor Alhagi Manta Drammeh (FHA, FRSA, UK) People talk about The Gambia as a secular state. It was inserted in the 1997 Gambian Constitution that The Gambia is a secular state. Secularism is a big term that needs to be deconstrued to be understood. We talk of secularism as […]