By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline Professor Muhammadou M.O. Kah, formerly of The University of The Gambia and now Vice President of Academic Affairs at American University of Nigeria has been honored by ADA University in Azerbaijan. Professor Kah bagged a prestigious job as Founding Dean and Vice Rector for Technology and […]
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Kentucky: Senegambians Celebrate Young Gambian Scholar
By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline The Senegambian community of Lexington and Kentucky on June 1st,2018 converged at Lexington Oakwood center to celebrate and pray for Omar Pa Mambuna Bojang, a gifted and serious young academic of Gunjur origin. Omar Bojang ,son of Pa Mambuna Bojang of Kombo Gunjur graduated from High […]
UTG Produces First Ever Made In The Gambia PhD
By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline University of The Gambia made history today by producing its first ever PhD graduate in collaboration with University of Gaston Berger. The degree is in Mathematics bagged by John T. Mendy, a student of University of The Gambia. Speaking at the convocation ceremony, Vice Chancellor, Professor […]
Division Bedevils Serrekunda Market
By Abdoulie John Traders and street vendors at Serekunda market are not warming for better relations, with each group continuing to stand firm on its ground. Both sides claim their members move is ‘legally justified.’ The spiraling bad blood comes in the wake of crisis at one of The Gambia’s […]
Gambia Needs Abuse Of Office Free System
By Abdoulie John The Gambia’s Chief Justice has expressed the need for the country to move towards a more perfect constitution that would not would not trample upon Gambians’ newly won freedom. Justice Hassan Aboubacarr Jallow made the statement as the eleven-member consitutional review panel is set to draft a blueprint […]
The Constitutional Review Commission Is Unlawfully Constituted
It is the inexorable law of nature that every creature will succumb. Stated differently, human life is transient. In a limited sense, and in our geographic circumstances, what permanence there is belongs to the physical entity called Gambia and its betterment must therefore constitute our collective preoccupation. It is incontestable […]
London Letter With Dida Halake: Open Letter to Lawyer Mandela Darboe
Dear Lawyer Mandela Darboe, I use your earned honorific title “Lawyer Mandela Darboe” most respectfully – and I believe I was the first to use it on Kairo News and JollofNews when Bandit Yahya Jammeh murdered Solo and arrested you and your colleagues. I write this first letter to you […]
President Barrow Meets Business Community Over Price Hike
President Adama Barrow on Monday 4th June, 2018 had a consultative meeting with major importers of the Gambian business community at State House in Banjul. The objective of the discussion was to have a dialogue around the prices of basic consumer goods in relation to tax incentives put in place […]
Gambia Finally Pays Compensation To Families Of Manneh And Hydara
There has been a major breakthrough in efforts to secure reparation for journalist victims of Yahya Jammeh’s reign of terror as the new government in The Gambia has paid 50% of the compensations to the families of two of the victims, Ebrimah Manneh and Deyda Hydara. The initial 50% payment […]
Ghanaians Killed In Gambia: “Akufo-Addo Nearly Fought My Foreign Minister”, Jammeh Makes Wild Allegations, Curses Him
Reports seen by The Manual have revealed that then Foreign Affairs Minister and now president of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo nearly fought with his Gambian counterpart, Bala Gaye in Banjul when he led a delegation to Gambia following the murder of 44 Ghanaians. Read more: https://www.modernghana.com/news/858617/ghanaians-killed-in-gambia-akufo-addo-nearly-fought-my-for.html
US Lauds Gambia’s Religious Freedom
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Banjul, The Gambia For Immediate Release Youliana Sadowski, Political/Economic Officer, 439-2856 PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Department of State Acknowledges Gambia’s Commitment to Religious Freedom As required by the U.S. Congress, the United States Department of State released the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report on […]
President Barrow Endorses Term Limits
By Abdoulie John Gambian President has endorsed the restoration of presidential term limits in his country’s constitution. “I hold the view that a two-term limit for head of state should be entrenched in the new constitution,” President Adama Barrow said on Monday as he presided over the swearing in ceremony of […]